For the first time since the industrial revolution the UK has gone for the longest period where no coal generated power entered the national grid. Much of this is thanks to the increased role gas has played in generating electricity. But at a time when the Committee on Climate Change and climate activists are calling for a zero-carbon world, why is gas still being used?
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The report ‘Pressure in the pipeline: decarbonising the UK’s gas‘ argues that deeper decarbonisation of UK gas is essential if the country is to meet its current and likely future emissions reduction target. The report assesses how to decarbonise gas in the UK by increasing the supply of low carbon gases and by reducing demand for gas in the heat sector. It calls for new government investment and incentives for decarbonisation to be an urgent priority in Ofgem’s next price control framework for gas from April 2021.
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The company yesterday (13 July) released the latest iteration of its annual Future Energy Scenarios report, which examines a series of possible trajectories for the energy system corresponding to different degrees of green ambition and prosperity.
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Utilising the existing gas distribution and transmission assets and adapting them to cope with green gases is predicted to cost £104 billion to £122bn by 2050 is estimated to be at least £34bn cheaper than alternative methods.
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Hydrogen and other green gas gases will be unable to fully decarbonise heating, according to University of Exeter energy policy researcher Richard Lowes, leaving electrification, district heating and perhaps solar thermal as better long-term solutions to the problem. The ENA, meanwhile, maintains that a “whole system” approach is the most reliable, secure and affordable solution.
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Networks are under pressure to create the energy system of tomorrow today, and by March 2017, the environment in which they strive to do so, may have changed significantly.
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Innovation is at the forefront of the gas and electricity agenda as companies strive to create the networks for the future today. At the centre of this drive for innovation is the shift away from passive system management, towards the operation of active and flexible networks, carefully and dynamically balanced to accommodate new patterns of supply and demand.
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The report, ‘Powering the North West’s Future’, sets out its plans to meet the Government’s energy decarbonisation challenge by supporting people, businesses and energy producers across the North West region.
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On 1 March 2018, when the UK was amid the ‘Beast from the East’, National Grid issued a gas deficit warning for the first time since the system was introduced in 2012. The warning followed multiple gas supply outages, including South Hook LNG terminal, Kollsnes gas processing plant and the BBL interconnector between Britain and the Netherlands.
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Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) has secured funding from Ofgem’s Network Innovation Allowance (NIA), to deliver its £320,000 Local Electric Vehicle Energy Loop (LEVEL) project.
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