Energy: Costs
Commons · Question 44122 · Tabled 3 Apr 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero · Official record
Answered 11 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Charlotte Nichols
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of the levelised cost of energy for communicating the true cost of energy production to consumers.
Answer
Answered by Michael Shanks, 11 Apr 2025
The Levelised Cost of Electricity (LCOE) provides a simple, high-level metric to compare the cost of building and operating different generation technologies. While valuable for comparing the relative cost of technologies to each other, LCOE does not incl...