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Promotion Of Photovoltaic Electricity

EDM number 976 in 1998-99, proposed by Lawrie Quinn on 03/11/1999.

That this House notes that photovoltaic electricity is becoming increasingly economic when integrated at the construction stage in new buildings, as demonstration projects in Newcastle, Doxford and Richmond have shown; notes that BP Amoco Shell Renewables have both announced that they expect PV to be a major, multi-billion pound business by the early part of the 21st century; recalls the opportunity the United Kingdom had to develop a wind turbine industry in the 1970s and 1980s, and regrets that this industry has since become so dominated by Denmark and Germany, which both provided incentives in the local market; and calls on the Government to ensure that such events are not repeated with PV by including provisions in the proposed Utility Bill for small grid-connected PV systems and net metering, which would ensure solar generators are paid at least the same for their exported clean solar energy as they pay for the electricity they import and initiating measures to stimulate the rapid growth of the United Kingdom market for solar electricity.

This motion has been signed by a total of 41 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Lawrie Quinn03/11/1999Scarborough & WhitbyLabourProposed
Norman Baker03/11/1999LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
Derek Wyatt03/11/1999Sittingbourne & SheppeyLabourSigned
Mike Wood03/11/1999Batley & SpenLabourSigned
Bob Blizzard03/11/1999WaveneyLabourSigned
Harold Best03/11/1999Leeds North WestLabourSigned
Hilary Benn03/11/1999Leeds CentralLabourSigned
Richard Allan03/11/1999Sheffield, HallamLiberal DemocratSigned
Ian Gibson03/11/1999Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin03/11/1999Heywood & MiddletonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Ian Davidson03/11/1999Glasgow, PollokLabour Co-operativeSigned
Claire Curtis-Thomas03/11/1999CrosbyLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn03/11/1999Islington NorthLabourSigned
Tom Brake03/11/1999Carshalton & WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Ashok Kumar03/11/1999Middlesbrough South & East ClevelandLabourSigned
Kerry Pollard03/11/1999St AlbansLabourSigned
Bill Michie04/11/1999Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell04/11/1999Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Harry Barnes04/11/1999North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Bill Etherington04/11/1999Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Robin Corbett04/11/1999Birmingham, ErdingtonLabourSigned
David Kidney04/11/1999StaffordLabourSigned
Lynne Jones04/11/1999Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Brian Iddon04/11/1999Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Nick Harvey04/11/1999North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
David Chaytor04/11/1999Bury NorthLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins05/11/1999Luton NorthLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley05/11/1999Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Dafydd Wigley08/11/1999CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Brian White08/11/1999North East Milton KeynesLabourSigned
Dari Taylor08/11/1999Stockton SouthLabourSigned
Vincent Cable08/11/1999TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell09/11/1999Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Colin Breed09/11/1999South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew George09/11/1999St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Donald Gorrie09/11/1999Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
David Lepper10/11/1999Brighton, PavilionLabour Co-operativeSigned
Christine Butler10/11/1999Castle PointLabourSigned
David Chidgey10/11/1999EastleighLiberal DemocratSigned
Ronnie Fearn10/11/1999SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
John Austin10/11/1999Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned

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