Electricity Generation
(asked on 2nd May 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 24 April 2023 to Question 180681 on Electricity Generation, what the constraint payment total was in each year from 2105 to 2019.
Answered by
Andrew Bowie
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
This question was answered on 15th May 2023
The total cost of constraint payments for each year are: £370 million in 2015, £349 million in 2016, £481 million in 2017, £514 million in 2018 and £585 million in 2019. These costs are nominal for each respective year. These data are publicly available at https://data.nationalgrideso.com/balancing/constraint-breakdown.