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Solar Power: Batteries

Commons · Question 56445 · Tabled 2 Jun 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero · Official record

Answered 10 Jun 2025

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Asked by Pippa Heylings

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, whether the 2035 Future Energy Scenarios-derived capacity ranges for solar and batteries in his Department’s Clean Power Action Plan connections annex are intended to be used by Ofgem and net

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Answered by Michael Shanks, 10 Jun 2025

The 2035 capacity ranges present credible pathways to decarbonise our energy system and provide certainty to investors by ensuring a 10-year horizon for connection offers. NESO will use the ranges to underpin connection offers out to 2035. The 2035 figure...