STIMULATING INVESTMENT IN CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGY

Early day motion 2598, tabled 18 July 2006 by Michael Clapham (Labour). Signed by 69 members.

That this House considers the Government's challenge of reducing carbon emissions and ensuring security of supply could be achieved whilst retaining current coal fired generation capacity in the UK at about 29GW; notes that the need to replace 13GW of capacity by the end of 2015 provides a serious threat to security of supply but by the same token provides an early opportunity for investment in clean coal technologies; believes this could be achieved by a mixture of `carbon capture ready' New Build and Retrofits so that they could be progressively connected to the carbon capture network after 2015; further believes the required investment is hampered by Phase Two of the UK application of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme which introduces a benchmark favourable to gas; and calls on the Government to consider the German model which is fuel and technology specific and has encouraged investment in 11GW of new clean coal technology.

Signatures by party: Labour 55, Liberal Democrat 7, Conservative 3, Independent 1, Plaid Cymru 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1, UUP 1.