Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential effect on consumers’ energy bills of the phasing out of unabated coal fired power stations in 2025; and if he will make a statement.
An estimate of impacts of the policy to end unabated coal electricity generation was made in November 2017 and is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/671959/FINAL_updated_unabated_coal_Impact_Assessment_Jan_2018.pdf