Question follow-through · 7989
Electricity: National Grid
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the cost of stability services to the electricity grid was in each of the last five years.
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 8 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 10 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 16 Oct 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the cost of stability services to the electricity grid was in each of the last five years.
10 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Oct 2024
Answer published
According to data provided by the National Energy System Operator (NESO), the costs of procuring stability services in the Balancing Mechanism for the last five years are as follows: 2019/20 £211m2020/21 £348m2021/22 £176m2022/23 £112m2023/24 £83m Based o...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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