Heat accounts for almost one half of UK energy costs and the cost of heat continues to rise. Britain faces an urgent challenge in transforming how homes, offices and industry are heated; in its recent report Next Steps for UK Heat Policy, the Committee on Climate Change put it simply: “deployment of low carbon heat cannot wait until the 2030s”.
The plans were released today within a new report from the independent green supplier. The report found that, by 2035, almost all homes in Britain could be heated by the green gas from grass – creating an industry worth £7.5 billion annually for the economy.
Green gas could heat majority of homes in Britain, says Ecotricity Read More »
The figure comes from the high scenario in the study, which concludes there is the potential to produce between 68TWh and 183TWh of renewable gases each year in the UK by the middle of the century.
Green gases could heat up to 15 million homes by 2050 Read More »
King Canute could not turn back the tides; he acknowledged his powers were limited. Similarly, UK politicians must recognise that our geographic location, climate and weather patterns are major determinants of future energy policy and that they can try but will fail to alter them. The energy trilemma, a phrase that rightly suggests the difficulty in balancing the competing demands of affordability, reliability and sustainability, should be set against the UK’s particular energy needs.
Green gasses will help solve the energy trilemma Read More »
In a new report, the Green Alliance of environmental charities and groups has called on ministers to require all new cars and vans to be zero emission by 2030.
Green groups call for EV rollout to be accelerated Read More »
The global standard for large organisations to measure, manage and report GHG emissions, the GHG Protocol, will now recognise that Green Gas Certificates can support a business’s reporting of onsite GHG emissions.
Grid-injected biomethane industry receives boost Read More »
Batteries, demand-side response (DSR) and interconnectors all have major limitations which mean they will unable to provide sufficient flexibility to balance the energy system by themselves, an expert from the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) has warned.
Green fuels needed for long-term energy storage Read More »
The new paper – Engineering for Energy – says coal and gas power stations are needed to make sure the country can get back online quickly after a system crash.
Government must heed ‘nightmarish’ black out warning Read More »
Mention the term microgrid, and most people tend to think of providing access to power on remote islands or in poorly served regions in developing markets. But recent developments are highlighting a big potential role for microgrids in mature power markets, including the UK, where it’s becoming clear that new ways of thinking about power supply capacity, stability and resilience are needed.
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“Great Scott! 1.21 gigawatts! 1.21 gigawatts!” Although these are the words of Doctor Emmett Brown from the Back to the Future trilogy, here at NIE Networks we are proclaiming a similar message. The Doc had to harness a lightning strike to provide this power, but a more feasible approach has been developed to supply the customers of Northern Ireland: distributed generation (DG).
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