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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.
With a large proportion of specific sectors throughout Ireland having either closed or scaled back their operations due to Covid-19, Cornwall Insight has noted a significant drop in Ireland’s electricity demand on weekdays.
Research from Cornwall Insight’s Domestic market share survey for the first quarter of 2020 has shown a shake-up of the rankings that is unprecedented in the survey since its launch.
As a consequence of Covid-19 and its effect on energy demand, wind now represents a more substantial proportion of Great Britain’s energy mix. At the same time, CCGT plant is having to respond to lower load factors, resulting in not only record low wholesale prices but a surge in negative pricing events, Cornwall Insight has said.
Engineers from Electricity North West have supported the creation of the region’s first specialist field hospital, the NHS Nightingale Hospital North West.
For organisations providing essential services during the coronavirus crisis, Recolight has announced help with storage of additional waste, while the Environment Agency has published guidance for sites that may exceed their permits during the current lockdown period.
The Carbon Trust’s Offshore Wind Accelerator (OWA) has published guidance for the geophysical surveying for unexploded ordnance (UXO) and boulders, supporting subsea cable installation by improving the effectiveness of surveys.
As a result of the government-imposed lockdown, energy demand for power has fallen dramatically, declining by 0.10TWh against March 2019. Research from Cornwall Insight predicts that if this 0.10TWh decline is maintained across the originally announced three-week lockdown, the aggregate impact of this daily decline across this period would be equivalent to an approximate 0.50% decline in total annual demand.
