On Monday, the UK Government announced its legislative programme for the coming parliamentary session.
The coming session is due to be a short year, starting in November, and finishing in April, and as such, only 11 Bills have been proposed.
The early announcement of next years Bills allow for consultation between now and November to amend or suggest changes and policies for the subject areas covered.
The Bill of relevance is another Energy Bill
Energy Bill
Moving decisively to a low carbon economy while maintaining the security and diversity of electricity supplies by:
• Introducing a financial incentive, funded by electricity suppliers, to support up to
four Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) commercial-scale demonstration projects.
The Energy Bill is primarily concerned with Carbon Capture and Storage, and the energy challenge facing the UK. However, the Bill may develop more ‘meat’ between now and November, with market incentives for energy production possibly being re-visited and potential obligations for energy providers to move to renewables.
The Government also announced consultation papers, which if elected they would propose at the next Parliament.
Energy and Climate Change White Paper:
Setting out proposals on how we might adapt the UK’s energy grid to link homes and businesses to new forms of power generation as well as proposals and polices to de-carbonise electricity generation and other energy supplies. (Department for Energy and Climate Change)
Low Carbon Industrial Strategy:
Providing a clear and credible long-term framework to encourage investment in the sector and to ensure the UK is the best place to locate and develop a low carbon business. (Department of Business Innovation and Skills/Department for Energy and Climate Change)
Active Transport Strategy:
Setting out how we can encourage different ways of getting around that use less carbon, reduce congestion and promote health and wellbeing. (Department of Health/Department for Transport)
None of these Bill’s will be introduced this year, and it would seem unlikely they will be unless the present government wins the next election. However, they offer opportunities to shape the thinking of the Civil Servants as well as influence decisions made by Minister’s between now and May 2010.
The Government also laid out its vision for investment in new infrastructure.
Building world class infrastructure:
Seizing the opportunities of the future depends on having truly nationwide, high quality business and technical infrastructure. That is why we must give priority to bringing greater focus to building and modernising our economic infrastructure in energy, water, waste, communications, as well as transport and housing.
The coming session is due to be a short year, starting in November, and finishing in April, and as such, only 11 Bills have been proposed.
The early announcement of next years Bills allow for consultation between now and November to amend or suggest changes and policies for the subject areas covered.
The Bill of relevance is another Energy Bill
Energy Bill
Moving decisively to a low carbon economy while maintaining the security and diversity of electricity supplies by:
• Introducing a financial incentive, funded by electricity suppliers, to support up to
four Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) commercial-scale demonstration projects.
The Energy Bill is primarily concerned with Carbon Capture and Storage, and the energy challenge facing the UK. However, the Bill may develop more ‘meat’ between now and November, with market incentives for energy production possibly being re-visited and potential obligations for energy providers to move to renewables.
The Government also announced consultation papers, which if elected they would propose at the next Parliament.
Energy and Climate Change White Paper:
Setting out proposals on how we might adapt the UK’s energy grid to link homes and businesses to new forms of power generation as well as proposals and polices to de-carbonise electricity generation and other energy supplies. (Department for Energy and Climate Change)
Low Carbon Industrial Strategy:
Providing a clear and credible long-term framework to encourage investment in the sector and to ensure the UK is the best place to locate and develop a low carbon business. (Department of Business Innovation and Skills/Department for Energy and Climate Change)
Active Transport Strategy:
Setting out how we can encourage different ways of getting around that use less carbon, reduce congestion and promote health and wellbeing. (Department of Health/Department for Transport)
None of these Bill’s will be introduced this year, and it would seem unlikely they will be unless the present government wins the next election. However, they offer opportunities to shape the thinking of the Civil Servants as well as influence decisions made by Minister’s between now and May 2010.
The Government also laid out its vision for investment in new infrastructure.
Building world class infrastructure:
Seizing the opportunities of the future depends on having truly nationwide, high quality business and technical infrastructure. That is why we must give priority to bringing greater focus to building and modernising our economic infrastructure in energy, water, waste, communications, as well as transport and housing.
