Consumer bills to rise to keep the lights on

摘要

CONSUMER ENERGY bilLs will rise in order to pay retainers to dozens of power stations to guarantee they are availabLe to keep the Lights on, ministers have announced. Under a so-called "capacity market", ministers plan to recruit more than 53GW of power stations - enough to meet 80 per cent of Britain's peak demand - to ensure they can fire up when needed. Households will each pay an average of ￡13 a year to the power plants, to guarantee they are ready on the system from 2018-19.