Case No. UKUT-24-(LC)

) of 735 MW electrical capacity. TEC is defined under the National Grid’s Connection and Use of System Code. This Code provides the contractual framework for connecting to and using the National Electricity Transmission System. TEC represents the maximum level of transmission access which a power station owner wishes to purchase and use for a given financial year. It therefore governs the maximum volume of electricity which can be exported to the National Grid from the station. Without a TEC agreement in place, it is not possible to export electricity onto the National Grid’s 400 KV National Electricity Transmission Network. 17.Mr Goodson’s evidence is that the Power Station was one of the earlier generation CCGT power stations constructed in the UK. As such, it is relatively inefficient in comparison with more modern power stations. The consequence of this, according to Mr Goodson’s evidence, is that the Power Station would have been one of the first power stations to be switched off, when market conditions worsened, and one of the last power stations to come online following improved market conditions. 18.So far as the mothballing of powers stations is concerned, the Agreed Statement makes reference to a report by Parsons Brinckerhoff, who were asked by the Department of Energy and Climate Change to undertake work in relation to gas and coal power plant technology. This report (