Decarbonising energy : the pathway to net zero /: the pathway to net zero. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Hugo Lidbetter.
• Authors: Lidbetter, Hugo
• Contents: I. Introduction II. The global energy triumvirate: greenhouse gas emissions, global warming and green energy1. Global energy trends – overview 2. Green shoots still to bud: carbon far from dated 2.1 The coal problem 2.2 Global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGEs) and global warming3. Global green energy: an investment success story? 3.1 Investment in renewables3.2 Growing capacity 3.3 Back to the future (again)3.4 Capacity is not power 3.5 Electrifying energy 4. Renewable technology: now cheaper and more efficient 4.1 Falling costs 4.2 Explaining the cost savings 4.3 Price competition and the path to diminishing marginal returns5. Global wrap-up III. How green is UK energy? 1. UK energy trends – overview 2. Energy versus electricity2.1 Generation capacity and interconnectors 2.2 Electricity generated 3. The relationship between capacity and electricity generated in the UKIV. UK policy and the road to Net Zero 1. UK energy policy 2. Policy development – overview 2.1 Climate Change Act 2008 2.2 Coalition government 2011 budget 2.3 Electricity Market Reform (EMR) under the Energy Act 20132.4 The Renewables Obligation (RO) 2.5 The Feed-in Tariff (FiT) 2.6 Smart Export Guarantee (SEG)3. The emergence of Net zero4. The Committee on Climate Change’s 2019 Progress Report 5. Future energy scenarios 2019: Net Zero aspects5.1 Heating homes 5.2 Growth in generation capacity 5.3 Net Zero actually means negative zero – sequestration5.4 Indispensability of carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS) technology5.5 Electric vehicles (EVs) 5.6 Interoperability 5.7 Behavioural 6. Delivering Net Zero V. Generation technologies: going from black to grey1. Overview 2. Coal-fired generation 2.1 Summary 2.2 The coal scene 2.3 Policy 2.4 Convert or close 2.5 Biomass conversion, gas conversion and carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS)2.6 Decommissioning 3. Nuclear generation 3.1 Overview 3.2 New build nuclear 3.3 Nuclear development costs 3.4 Nuclear third-party liability 3.5 Brexit and Euratom (‘Brexatom’) 3.6 The regulated asset base (RAB) model 3.7 What next for RAB? 4. Natural gas-fired generation 4.1 Overview 4.2 Peaking plants 4.3 Baseload plants 4.4 The Capacity Market (CM): a capacity lost? 4.5 Gas in a renewables world? 4.6 Gas: going green? VI. Generation technologies: going from grey to green 1. Overview 2. Solar photovoltaic (PV) 2.1 Overview 2.2 Why solar? 2.3 Development aspects 2.4 Operation aspects 2.5 Connection aspects and stranded assets 2.6 Solar and subsidy 2.7 Solar without subsidy 3. Wind power 3.1 Overview 3.2 Wind in the UK 3.3 Cost of wind 3.4 Investing in wind power 3.5 Wind: finance aspects VII. Net Zero and future technologies 1. Overview 2. Energy storage 2.1 Overview 2.2 Opportunities: co-location and revenue stacking 2.3 Battery storage: lithium ion and electric vehicles (EVs) 2.4 Pumped storage 2.5 Thermal storage2.6 Hydrogen storage 3. Floating wind power 3.1 Overview 3.2 Early stage technology 3.3 Crown Estate and floating projects 3.4 Floating wind as a sector opportunity 3.5 Floating wind benefits 3.6 Key issues with floating projects 3.7 What next for floating wind? 4. Hydrogen: to the rescue? 4.1 Why hydrogen? 4.2 How is hydrogen produced? 4.3 Hydrogen and energy storage 4.4 Applications of clean hydrogen 4.5 Hydrogen: two opportunities 4.6 Hydrogen in 2050 5. Carbon capture technology 5.1 Overview 5.2 Carbon capture storage (CCS) and Net Zero 6. Negative emissions 6.1 Going green: reforestation and rewilding 6.2 Direct air capture (DAC) 6.3 Bioenergy carbon capture storage 7. Advanced nuclear technologies 7.1 Overview 7.2 Small modular reactors (SMRs) (Generation III water-cooled SMRs)7.3 Advanced modular reactors (AMRs) (Generation IV AMRs) 7.4 Why advanced nuclear? VIII.The UK’s electricity network: electrons in balance 1. Overview2. The electricity system: what it is and how it works 2.1 Generators 2.2 Transmission operators (TOs) 2.3 Transmission system operator (TSO) 2.4 Distribution network operators (DNOs)2.5 Trade and aggregators 2.6 Suppliers 2.7 Customers (industrial, commercial and residential) 2.8 Ofgem and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)3. Balancing the electricity system: the balancing mechanism (BM) and ancillary services3.1 The balancing mechanism (BM) 3.2 Wind and the balancing mechanism (BM) 3.3 Ancillary services IX. Looking forward NotesAbout the authorAbout Globe Law and Business
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Globe Law and Business
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 333.790941; Energy policy -- Great Britain; Renewable energy sources -- Great Britain; Greenhouse gas mitigation -- Great Britain
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787423596; 9781787423602
• Related ISBNs: 9781787423589
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