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As I understand it, we do not have a budget heading for reserves. There is no piggy bank that we can rob as the need arises; the system is not really like that.
The main problem that we see is that the cap on the size of electricity-only plants is de facto a cap on the size of CHP projects because when financiers and banks look at such projects they ask what happens if there is an interruption to the heat demand for the project.
Given that we are just past the first quarter of 2012, do we have a more up-to-date figure? We have been pursuing that issue, but we do not have a more up-to-date figure.
Amendment 9 states: “the Scottish Ministers must not lay before the Scottish Parliament draft regulations for approval unless they have ... consulted in accordance with subsection (1B) ... had regard to any representations that are made to them within 60 days of the date on which the copy of the proposals is laid before the Parliament ... laid before the P...