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The UK is increasingly generating its electricity with renewables – that begs the question of when we could see the first gas-free day on the grid?
What lessons have we learned from the Covid-19 pandemic when it comes to running an electrical distribution grid?
How many people are currently working in the UK in the nuclear industry? Being a simple chap, I had thought that such a number would be easily established, at least within a few hundred or so. But not so.
There was much rejoicing at the Carbon Capture & Storage Association at the announcement in the latest Budget that the Government would be making £800 million available over the next five years.
I have to conclude that the Deputy Prime Minister of New South Wales, John Barilaro, is a remarkable clairvoyant. He has announced unequivocally on Australian media that Rolls- Royce is set to build up to 15 new small-size nuclear reactors in Britain over the next nine years.
Pause for thought for those convinced that achieving net zero carbon means electric heating will become the norm in all British buildings within the next 15 years.
Pause for thought for those convinced that achieving net zero carbon means electric heating will become the norm in all British buildings within the next 15 years. Currently over 80% of UK homes depend on gas for heating and cooking.
Another fallout from Brexit. The island of Ireland as a whole is heavily reliant on energy from Great Britain. The Republic and the North have constituted one single energy market ever since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
In my December diary I pointed out that there might be problems ahead for the woman who had been appointed in the summer by Prime Minister Johnson to be president of the big fortnight-long multinational climate change conference, due to be held in Glasgow this November.
Katie Burrows, energy services solutions manager at Haven Power discusses how to build a business case for sustainability.
