Calling on energy leaders to recognise the importance of developing infrastructure that supports low-cost, high-performance 5G technology, Chapman said that 5G roll out is at risk of being hindered by slow infrastructure deployment.
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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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They’ve launched a call for ideas for exciting innovation projects which can deliver carbon or environmental benefits for customers. Funding of up to £20m per annum is available through the Networks Innovation Competition (NIC), and the gas networks are inviting third parties to submit their proposals for flagship innovation projects and to take advantage of this opportunity to work together.
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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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Chris Train, former chief executive of gas distribution network Cadent recently took on a role spearheading the Energy Networks Association’s new Gas Goes Green initiative to advance the creation of a net zero gas grid in the UK. Here he explains why this mission is so crucial to a successful and affordable energy transition.
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The Future of Heat is a brand new event from the team who organise the annual Network Forum and Awards. The new conference will address the issues surrounding decarbonising heat across the UK, with a strong focus on learning from ongoing projects and developing both policy and technical solutions to current and future challenges.
The Sustainable Energy Association (SEA) has published a new policy paper which lobbies government to introduce regulation to support decarbonisation of heating in off gas grid homes.
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The ETI has released an update of its ‘Options, Choices, Actions’ report, originally published in 2015, illustrating two cost-optimised decarbonisation pathways for the UK energy system to meet its 2050 climate targets.
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‘Still in the mix? Understanding the role of Carbon Capture Usage and Storage’, was written by the Energy Systems Catapult (ESC) for the ETI, and takes into account recent cost reductions in renewables and the latest ETI modelling on CCUS costs. The report reaffirms previous ETI work on the importance of CCUS deployment by 2030, without which carbon abatement costs will increase by circa £1 billion a year. The research also cements ETI analysis that if CCUS is not developed at all before 2050, the ‘national bill’ for low carbon energy that year would be circa £35bn higher – equivalent to circa 1% of expected GDP.
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The Storage and Flexibility Model (SFM) has been developed to create insight into the challenge of balancing supply and demand in the energy system as decisions lay the groundwork for net-zero by 2050.
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