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Early Day Motion

EDM 123
 
CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER AND THE CREATION OF A HIGH VOLTAGE DIRECT CURRENT SUPERGRID
04.12.2008


Stoate, Howard

That this House recognises the great potential of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) in desert regions as a source of clean energy for countries throughout Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (EUMENA); welcomes the Prime Minister's endorsement of CSP and its potential in his speech at the inaugural meeting of the Union for the Mediterranean; notes that CSP is already feeding electricity into the European transmission grid, that CSP plants are quick to build, and that the UK may benefit soon from this source of power via the existing grid; further notes that the existing grid may be upgraded with high voltage direct current technologies and smart electronics; further notes that the resulting supergrid would be a cost-effective means of promoting the security, efficiency and stability of electricity supplies throughout the region, and will in any case be needed for a single market for electricity and to provide access to large-scale but remote sources of renewable energy; and calls on the Government to promote these developments vigorously, to work with its international partners to remove overt and hidden subsidies for non-renewable sources of energy, to ensure that a proper price is paid for carbon dioxide emissions, to provide a system of support for renewable energy technologies that is harmonised across the region, to support existing moves to develop a single market for electricity throughout the EU, to extend that single market to EUMENA, and to put in place appropriate mechanisms for upgrading the transmission grid throughout the region.

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Stoate, Howard
Holmes, Paul
Hancock, Mike
Corbyn, Jeremy
McDonnell, John
Flynn, Paul
Cryer, Ann
Leech, John
Starkey, Phyllis
Jones, Lynne
Dismore, Andrew
Durkan, Mark
George, Andrew
Hunter, Mark
Harvey, Nick
Caton, Martin
Clapham, Michael
Dean, Janet
Foster, Don
Pugh, John
Jenkins, Brian
Gerrard, Neil
Sanders, Adrian
Jackson, Glenda
Cohen, Harry
Vis, Rudi
Williams, Betty
Anderson, David
Howarth, David
Illsley, Eric
Cook, Frank
Iddon, Brian
Keeble, Sally
Keetch, Paul
McCafferty, Chris
Bruce, Malcolm
Cable, Vincent
Godsiff, Roger
Grogan, John
Walley, Joan
Horwood, Martin
Pelling, Andrew
Rowen, Paul
Singh, Marsha
Humble, Joan
Llwyd, Elfyn
Brooke, Annette
Dobbin, Jim
Davies, Dai
Ottaway, Richard
Breed, Colin
Beith, Alan
Taylor, Ian
Clark, Katy
Marshall-Andrews, Robert
Miller, Andrew
Stewart, Ian
Strang, Gavin
Farron, Timothy
Prosser, Gwyn
Kennedy, Charles
MacKay, Andrew
Mullin, Chris
Opik, Lembit
Chaytor, David
Thurso, John
Turner, Desmond
Willis, Phil
Williams, Mark
Willott, Jenny
Drew, David
Williams, Roger
Huhne, Chris
Butterfill, John
Hopkins, Kelvin
Amess, David
Williams, Hywel
Wood, Mike
Owen, Albert
Brake, Tom
Rennie, Willie
Mason, John
Dowd, Jim
Austin, John
Challen, Colin
Evans, Nigel
Clwyd, Ann
Rogerson, Daniel
McDonnell, Alasdair
Cousins, Jim
Younger-Ross, Richard
Lamb, Norman
Naysmith, Doug
Doran, Frank
Reed, Andy
Key, Robert
Pope, Greg
Prentice, Gordon
Kramer, Susan
Thornberry, Emily
Hoey, Kate
Clelland, David
Oaten, Mark
Abbott, Diane
Southworth, Helen
McGrady, Eddie
Taylor, Matthew
Mulholland, Greg
Pound, Stephen
Laxton, Bob
Williams, Stephen
Berry, Roger
Stringer, Graham
Truswell, Paul
Hoyle, Lindsay
Hughes, Simon
Cawsey, Ian
Ainsworth, Peter
Streeter, Gary
Browne, Jeremy
Laws, David
Lloyd, Tony
Brady, Graham
Hall, Patrick
Hemming, John
Robertson, Angus
Hepburn, Stephen
Levitt, Tom
Moffatt, Laura
Burgon, Colin
Davey, Edward
Baker, Norman
Todd, Mark
Walter, Robert
Featherstone, Lynne
Plaskitt, James
Teather, Sarah
Campbell, Menzies
Ainger, Nick
Burt, Lorely
Lepper, David
Goldsworthy, Julia
Syms, Robert
Borrow, David S
Heath, David
Howells, Kim
Marsden, Gordon
Robertson, John
Robinson, Geoffrey
Osborne, Sandra
Brown, Russell
Russell, Bob
Smith, Robert
Linton, Martin
Burden, Richard
Mates, Michael
Caborn, Richard
Barrett, John
Wishart, Pete
Dhanda, Parmjit
Banks, Gordon
Keen, Alan
Meale, Alan
Farrelly, Paul
Touhig, Don
Burns, Simon
Taylor, Richard
Francis, Hywel
Ellman, Louise
Ancram, Michael
Bailey, Adrian
Sheerman, Barry
Slaughter, Andy
Reid, Alan
Anderson, Janet