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House of Commons

Thursday 7 January 2010

Public Bill Committee

New Amendments handed in are marked thus

Amendments which will comply with the required notice period at their next appearance

Energy Bill

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Simon Hughes

Martin Horwood

Sir Robert Smith

Mr Phil Willis

3

Clause  4,  page  4,  line  18,  leave out subsections (3) and (4).

Simon Hughes

Martin Horwood

Sir Robert Smith

Mr Phil Willis

4

Clause  4,  page  4,  line  34,  leave out paragraph (g).

Mr Mike Weir

16

Clause  6,  page  5,  line  23,  leave out ‘coal-fired’.

Member’s explanatory statement

As it presently stands the bill restricts CCS demonstration projects to coal-fired projects. This

amendment will remove the reference to coal and allow other projects to be considered.

Mr Mike Weir

17

Clause  6,  page  5,  line  28,  leave out ‘coal-fired’.

Member’s explanatory statement

As it presently stands the bill restricts CCS demonstration projects to coal-fired projects. This

amendment will remove the reference to coal and allow other projects to be considered.

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Energy Bill, continued

Mr Mike Weir

18

Clause  6,  page  5,  line  37,  leave out ‘coal-fired’.

Member’s explanatory statement

As it presently stands the bill restricts CCS demonstration projects to coal-fired projects. This

amendment will remove the reference to coal and allow other projects to be considered.

Mr Mike Weir

19

Clause  6,  page  6,  line  1,  leave out ‘coal-fired’.

Member’s explanatory statement

As it presently stands the bill restricts CCS demonstration projects to coal-fired projects. This

amendment will remove the reference to coal and allow other projects to be considered.

Mr Mike Weir

20

Clause  6,  page  6,  line  2,  leave out from ‘scale’ to end of line 5.

Member’s explanatory statement

As it presently stands the bill restricts CCS demonstration projects to coal-fired projects. This

amendment will remove the reference to coal and allow other projects to be considered.

Simon Hughes

Mr Phil Willis

Martin Horwood

Sir Robert Smith

22

Clause  8,  page  6,  line  24,  at beginning insert ‘On or before 31 December 2010’.

Simon Hughes

Martin Horwood

Sir Robert Smith

Mr Phil Willis

1

Clause  8,  page  6,  line  24,  leave out ‘may’ and insert ‘shall’.

Member’s explanatory statement

Currently the bill is written in a way that means that the Secretary of State is not required to make

schemes for the purpose of reducing fuel poverty. This amendment would place an obligation on

him to do so.

Simon Hughes

Martin Horwood

Sir Robert Smith

Mr Phil Willis

2

Clause  8,  page  6,  line  25,  at end insert—

‘(1A)

A scheme under this section must make provision for a national programme to

make every home a warm home within 10 years of the passing of this Act. For the

purposes of this Act a warm home shall mean a home that is rated 81 or above on

the Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) ratings system.’.

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Energy Bill, continued

Simon Hughes

Martin Horwood

Sir Robert Smith

Mr Mike Weir

Mr Phil Willis

9

Clause  8,  page  6,  line  32,  at end insert—

‘(d)	licensed suppliers of liquid petroleum gas for domestic use;

(e)	licensed suppliers of fuel oil for domestic use.’.

Mr Mike Weir

21

Clause  10,  page  9,  line  16,  at end insert—

‘(d)	include within the definition of “scheme supplier” suppliers of home fuel

oil and liquid petroleum gas.’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment will ensure that suppliers of home fuel oil or liquid petroleum gas would be part

of any reconciliation mechanism.

Simon Hughes

Martin Horwood

Sir Robert Smith

Mr Phil Willis

7

Clause  14,  page  11,  line  29,  leave out paragraph (b).

Simon Hughes

Martin Horwood

Sir Robert Smith

Mr Phil Willis

8

Clause  14,  page  11,  line  41,  leave out subsection (4).

Greg Clark

Charles Hendry

Gregory Barker

Bill Wiggin

12

Clause  16,  page  13,  line  14,  leave out ‘or the Authority (as the case may be)’.

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Energy Bill, continued

Greg Clark

Charles Hendry

Gregory Barker

Bill Wiggin

13

Clause  16,  page  13,  line  22,  leave out ‘or the Authority’.

Greg Clark

Charles Hendry

Gregory Barker

Bill Wiggin

14

Clause  17,  page  14,  line  23,  leave out ‘or the Authority (as the case may be)’.

Greg Clark

Charles Hendry

Gregory Barker

Bill Wiggin

15

Clause  17,  page  14,  line  31,  leave out ‘or the Authority’.

Greg Clark

Charles Hendry

Gregory Barker

Bill Wiggin

25

Clause  18,  page  16,  line  21,  at end add—

‘(d)

th

‘(d)	e establishment of a competition for the construction of undersea high

voltage direct current cables for the purposes of connecting offshore

electricity generation to the onshore grid.’.

Simon Hughes

Mr Phil Willis

Martin Horwood

Sir Robert Smith

23

Clause  26,  page  21,  line  36,  at beginning insert ‘With effect from 1 June 2010’.

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Energy Bill, continued

Simon Hughes

Martin Horwood

Sir Robert Smith

Mr Phil Willis

5

Clause  26,  page  22,  line  1,  leave out subsection (3).

Simon Hughes

Mr Phil Willis

Martin Horwood

Sir Robert Smith

24

Clause  27,  page  22,  line  6,  leave out ‘considers’ and insert ‘discovers’.

Simon Hughes

Martin Horwood

Sir Robert Smith

Mr Mike Weir

Mr Phil Willis

10

Clause  27,  page  22,  line  25,  at end insert—

‘(d)	liquid petroleum gas for domestic use customers;

(e)	fuel oil for domestic use customers.’.

Simon Hughes

Martin Horwood

Sir Robert Smith

Mr Mike Weir

Mr Phil Willis

11

Clause  27,  page  22,  line  32,  at end insert—

‘(d)	as respects a relevant liquid petroleum gas for domestic use customer;

(e)	as respects a fuel oil for domestic use customers.’.

Simon Hughes

Martin Horwood

Sir Robert Smith

Mr Phil Willis

6

Clause  27,  page  22,  line  37,  at end insert ‘, or

(c)	the method by which the customer pays their energy bill’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This would allow the Government to take into account differentials in charges between prepay cus­

tomers and direct debit customers when considering the adjustment of charges to help disadvan­

taged customers.

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Energy Bill, continued

new clauses

Carbon emissions performance standard

Simon Hughes

Martin Horwood

Sir Robert Smith

John Hemming

Mr Phil Willis

Mr Edward Davey

Mr Adrian Sanders

NC1

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	The Secretary of State shall make provision by regulations for a carbon emissions

performance standard to set the maximum level of carbon dioxide that may be

emitted for each unit of output by any new coal fired electricity generating

station.

(2)	The emissions performance standard shall come into effect immediately on

passage of this Act and will be progressively lowered so that new coal fired power

stations will produce no carbon emissions from 2020.’.

Emissions performance standard

Greg Clark

Charles Hendry

Gregory Barker

Bill Wiggin

NC2

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	The Secretary of State may by regulation introduce an Emissions Performance

Standard to apply to all electricity generation plants.

(2)	In this section “Emission Performance Standard” means a restriction on the

amount of carbon dioxide that electricity generation plants are permitted to emit.’.

Green deal

Greg Clark

Charles Hendry

Gregory Barker

Bill Wiggin

NC3

To move the following Clause:—

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Energy Bill, continued

‘(1)	The Secretary of State may by regulations introduce a scheme whereby every

household shall have an entitlement for household energy efficiency measures.

(2)	The Secretary of State may by regulations require suppliers to add repayment

charges to household electricity bills over a period to be set by the Secretary of

State.

(3)	The Secretary of State may by regulations modify the Metering Point

Administration Service to allow access to the data for the disbursement and

repayment of the entitlement.

(4)	A support scheme may make provision about arrangements to be made by scheme

suppliers to ensure that, so far as is practicable, scheme customers receive the

benefits to be provided under the scheme, which may in particular include

provision about—

(a)	arrangements for enabling scheme suppliers to identify scheme

customers;

(b)	arrangements for drawing to the attention of scheme customers—

(i)	the fact that benefits are available under the scheme, and

(ii)	ways of applying for those benefits;

(c)	arrangements for providing the benefits.’.

Transparency on energy bills

Greg Clark

Charles Hendry

Gregory Barker

Bill Wiggin

NC4

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	The Secretary of State may modify—

(a)	a condition of the licence of section 11A of the Electricity Act 1989

(transmission licences and supply licences) to make provision on energy

bills for information on the cheapest tariff available to the customer from

their supplier;

(b)	a condition of the licence of section 23 (1) (b) of the Gas Act 1986

(transmission licences and supply licences) to make provision on energy

bills for information on the cheapest tariff available to the customer from

their supplier;

(c)	the standard conditions incorporated in licences under those provisions

by virtue of those Acts;

(d)	a document maintained in accordance with the conditions of licences

under those Acts, or agreement that gives effect to a document so

maintained.’.

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Revised 7 January 2010