Question follow-through · 110868
Renewable Energy
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of constraint payments and balancing actions in each year since 2020; and what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of
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- Answering body
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Tabled
- 4 Feb 2026
- Target answer date
- 9 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 13 Feb 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what estimate his Department has made of the cost of constraint payments and balancing actions in each year since 2020; and what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of
9 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Feb 2026
Answer published
The breakdown of curtailment and balancing action costs borne by domestic consumers and other data relating to constraints is provided in the National Energy System Operator (NESO) Annual Balancing Report. The most recent of these reports was published in...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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