All UK domestic electricity to be wind-powered within 10 years, PM pledges
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced plans for every home in the UK to be powered with electricity from offshore wind farms within a decade. Addressing the Conservative Party’s virtual conference, he unveiled a £160m fund for the wind energy sector. He announced that the Government has increased its 2030 target for installed offshore […]
UK set to witness massive uptake in low-cost green power
A series of initiatives are being rolled out to boost the UK’s renewable energy programme as a report indicated clean energy sources would account for 76% of the nation’s power demand by 2050. RenewableUK claims that the UK’s net-zero target will spur rapid demand for green hydrogen and attract more than £50bn to an already […]
Call for urgent boost to offshore wind and carbon capture and storage to meet net-zero target
The UK has been warned it needs to implement a four-fold increase in low-carbon energy, including significant expansion of offshore wind capacity, in order to reach its net-zero emissions target for 2050. The key finding is from Atkins Global’s Engineering Net Zero report, which highlights the capacity and policy barriers that the UK needs to overcome to […]
Too early to call whether UK shale gas will reduce energy prices
Exploiting the UK’s shale gas resource will mean better energy security and boost tax revenues, but it is too early to predict if it will reduce energy prices. The US now has the cheapest gas market in the world after beginning to produce shale gas domestically. If the resource in the UK turns out to […]
2050 carbon budget target difficult to hit without the use of bioenergy according to CCC
The 2050 carbon emissions target is set to be very difficult to achieve without the use of bioenergy according to the Committee on Climate Change (CCC). Bioenergy is the combustion of solid, liquid or gaseous fuels made from biomass feedstocks, which may or may not have undergone some form of conversion process. It was concluded […]
Energy Roadmap 2050 states decarbonisation of European energy sector by 2050 feasible
According to the European Commission (EC), decarbonisation of the European energy sector by 2050 is technically feasible. In its energy road map 2050, the EC addresses the framework of policies that need to be put in place to achieve this without disrupting competitiveness and energy supplies. The document looks at a number of scenarios around […]
Carbon Emission Reduction Via Biomass and CCS Technology
Around 31 gigatonnes of global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions enter the atmosphere annually. According to a global energy consultancy , by 2050 a possible ten gigatonnes of carbon dioxide per year could be taken out of the atmosphere and stored underground, cutting current annual carbon emissions from the energy sector by a third. A study […]
Carbon Capture Storage (CCS) projects are moving quickly
Following a recent meeting in London, the UK Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Milliband said: ‘Today some of the world’s biggest coal consuming nations have shown business as usual on coal won’t do. There;s agreement that we need countries around the world to finance demonstrations, as we are doing in the UK. We need […]
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