Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, what estimate he has made of the projected number of years of active energy production available through the use of (a) nuclear power stations, (b) offshore wind turbines, (c) onshore wind turbines, (d) coal-powered power stations, (e) gas-powered power stations, (f) solar-powered farms, (g) tidal power lagoons, (h) biomass stations and (i) anaerobic digesters.
DECC’s most recently published figures for levelised costs contains information on the operating duration of selected electricity generation for technologies. These are available in the DECC Electricity Generation Costs (December 2013) report: