Editor’s weekly: Political turmoil hampers innovation direction
Delays to key consultations on the future of the energy system rumble on.
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Editor’s weekly: the next phase for decarbonisation
The revolution is growing in pace and reach.
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ECCC member Heappey ‘relatively relaxed’ over scrapping of Decc
He said he hoped it would mean each governmental department would become responsible for their own decarbonisation.
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Eden Project wins £16.8m to drill for geothermal heat
The investment means that the Eden Project and its delivery partner, EGS Energy, can start drilling their first well on Eden’s site next summer, after working for a decade to get the project off drawing board.
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DSOs and data
Paul Beck, director of smart grid solutions at Lucy Electric, encourages customers to look at not how much data they can collect, but what that data can be used for, and the actions that will result from it. “What is important to DNOs, and in the transition to DSO, is not data, but information,” he says. “You can end up with an awful lot of data – in fact, far more than can be processed. It is extracting the information for analysis that is important.”
Drilling starts at UK’s first deep geothermal electricity plant
Geothermal Engineering Ltd (GEL) want to demonstrate the potential of the geothermal resource in the UK to produce electricity and renewable heat. The plant will supply up to 3 MWe (Mega Watt electrical) of electricity which is enough energy to power 3,000 homes.
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District heat: follow the leading light?
If the UK is to solve the challenge of meeting its heat needs in a decarbonised, affordable and secure manner it is going to need a multipronged approach. That was the strategy put forward by Imperial College London last year in its Managing Heat System Decarbonisation report. While the proposal is already largely accepted as good sense, last month the results of WWU’s Cornwall Energy project demonstrated with hard facts why a single technology strategy is a recipe for failure.
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District heating standards should be compulsory
The UK Government has said that it will revise building regulations because of the issues raised by the appalling tragedy of the Grenfell Tower fire. While attention is rightly concentrated on the building fabric and the safety of the people living in flats, attention on this sector may also provide the right time to improve residents long-term comfort and reduce their heating costs by setting quality standards for their heating.
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Direction of heat policy to be outlined in carbon plan
It will need to “thoroughly re-assess the evidence” before establishing a long-term direction for policy over the next few years.
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Discarding gas grid would be ‘insanity’
The panel event on low carbon heating followed the government’s recent announcement in the clean growth strategy, published a fortnight ago, that it had identified three options for decarbonising heating.
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