The project builds on findings in a report published by ETI last year which identified significant value in the potential use of salt caverns for storing hydrogen gas which could then be used to power gas turbines when demand for electricity is high.
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The Low Carbon Networks and Innovation (LCNI) conference, now the energy networks’ de facto event for dissemination of findings from funded innovation schemes, took place last week on Electricity North West’s (ENW’s) patch.
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The need for whole system thinking about energy has been a consistent thread running through industry debate this year. It was a key theme at the LCNI conference in Manchester (p18) and the raison d’etre for the Future Power System Architecture study.
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It is almost a year since the government unceremoniously pulled the plug on the £1 billion competition to commercialise carbon capture and storage technology, leading to the cancellation of Yorkshire’s White Rose and Aberdeenshire’s Peterhead demonstrator projects.
Catch it, keep it: the role of CCS in decarbonising gas and heat Read More »
Gas transmission and distribution in the UK have enviable safety records. But those involved in the sector are only too aware of the dangers the fuel poses. A safety executive in a gas distribution company doing his job right will be a “nervous squirrel”, seeking out the unknowns and always on their toes about the dangers the transportation of gas poses.
Big Bang; bringing safety to gas Read More »
The gas engineering and consultancy provider is responsible for around 90% of the UK’s existing biomethane-to-grid projects and the Queen’s Award recognises the firms key role in helping to create the right economic, legislative and technical environment for this emerging part of the renewable energy sector.
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The six-month project will attract £170,000 of investment from ETI and will build on the findings of a 2015 report from the institute which highlighted the role hydrogen could play in a low carbon economy.
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There is increasing interest in the energy sector in the practicalities of delivering “multi-vector” or whole system planning and operation. To support this, Phil Taylor, head of the national Centre for Energy Systems Integration (CESI) at Newcastle University, has said changes are needed to the regulatory price controls for energy distribution networks.
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Heat is an issue. It represents almost half of UK energy use and a third of UK carbon emissions. The UK won’t meet its carbon-reduction targets set out in the Climate Change Act – or fulfil its commitments made in the Paris Agreement – without a long-term plan to move to low-carbon heating.
A multipronged plan for heat Read More »
The Leeds City Gate report shows that a conversion of Leeds’ gas grid would be technically feasible, cost effective and could make a significant contribution to meeting the UK’s decarbonisation targets. NGN says that the benefits of conversion could be extended UK-wide.
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