Consultations & legislation
Carbon price floor
Issued: 16 December 2010
Open date: 16 December 2010
Close date: 11 February 2011
Background
The Chancellor announced in the Budget 2011 the introduction of a carbon price floor from 1 April 2013. This is the first step to wider reform of the electricity market.
Today the Government sets out its response to the consultation.
Consultation
The consultation document Carbon price floor: support and certainty for low-carbon investment set out the Government’s proposal to provide greater support and certainty to the price of carbon in the power sector to encourage investment in low-carbon electricity generation.
Consultation documents
- Carbon price floor: support and certainty for low-carbon investment (PDF 1.2MB)
- Regulatory impact assessment (PDF 470KB)
- Climate change levy: consultation draft (PDF 137KB)
- Explanatory note for draft clause and schedule: carbon price support rates (PDF 76KB)
The consultation documents are available in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF). If you do not have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer you can download the software free of charge from the Adobe website. For alternative ways to read PDF documents and further information on website accessibility visit the HM Treasury accessibility page.
Responses
During the consultation period, the Government received over 150 responses from energy suppliers, energy users, consultants, academics, trade groups and consumer representatives. Officials also held a stakeholder workshop at HM Treasury and met a wide range of interested organisations and individuals during the consultation period.
Government response and summary of responses
A summary of the responses to this consultation appears in the Government’s response to the consultation, published in March 2011.
Individual responses
All individual responses, where confidentiality was not requested, are published alphabetically, below.
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