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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) should only be used sparingly to decarbonise sectors for which there is no alternative, a senior figure at Engie has argued.
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Several industry figures have raised doubts over the potential for hydrogen to be used as a form of large-scale seasonal energy storage to help balance the power grid.
The contribution of renewables to electricity generation hit a new record peak in the second quarter of this year as solar power picked up the slack resulting from the summer "wind drought", new official statistics show.
Leon Flexman, corporate affairs director at Hitachi-backed Horizon Nuclear Power said that cost reductions in the Wylfa project are having a knock-on impact on the strike price, the guaranteed floor for the sum it will be paid for generating electricity.
In his keynote speech at the Labour annual conference today (26 September), the opposition leader said the investment required to deliver the party’s goal to achieve a 60 per cent cut in emissions by 2030 will create more than 400,000 skilled jobs.
Speaking in a Labour party conference fringe meeting on the transition to hydrogen, the shadow energy minister said the scale and scope of the UK’s embedded gas infrastructure ruled out a wholesale switchover to electric heating.
Scotland is outperforming the rest of the UK on reducing greenhouse gas emissions but needs fresh measures to meet its own recently introduced targets, according to parliament’s climate change watchdog.
Research will focus on understanding the “increasingly complex interactions between electricity, gas, heat and transport systems, resulting in a suite of software tools that can provide a range of possible futures for the UK’s energy system”.
"Renewable electricity has a significant role to play in decarbonisation, but it is only part of the story"
A report into decarbonisation by Imperial College London and Ovo Energy has found increasing residential flexibility could cut costs by almost £7 billion.
Excluding nuclear from the energy mix dramatically increases the cost of decarbonising the power system, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
"The way that the UK wire up our homes has not substantively changed in generations, and it is beginning to show"
Government moves to "drastically reduce" the carbon biomass plants can emit in order to enjoy support under contracts for difference (CfD) will make it 2harder and more expensive" to drive coal off the grid, the Renewable Energy Association (REA) has warned.
Ironically, the steps the Government is proposing to take in relation to modern RHI-eligible boilers
Northern Powergrid has announced three key initiatives to be implemented this year to give its
Switching over the gas network to hydrogen and other green gases could start immediately, Labour’s
"Since 2008, Britain’s energy networks have played an important role in the UK’s decarbonisation success story"
MPs have lamented the lack of consensus on energy policy, with one blaming the issue
