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Highlights:?
?? New Era for Clean Energy: UK carbon capture industry launches with 4,000 new jobs.?
? Record Pipeline of Clean Energy Projects: Sixth renewables auction delivers.??
?? Great British Energy HQ: Aberdeen is the new home of GB Energy.?
?? Future of Grangemouth: UK and Scottish governments respond to closure.?
?? A single energy system: The new National Energy System Operator launches.???
?? Home Upgrade Revolution: New plans to boost minimum energy efficiency standards.?
?? Plus: Other news and your views wanted.?
New Era for Clean Energy with 4,000 new jobs: ???
Big deal: today the UK enters a new era for clean energy and jobs, as the Government reaches commercial agreement and confirms funding to launch the UK’s first carbon capture industry.?
Quick explainer: CCUS technology removes CO2 emissions before it reaches the atmosphere and stores it safely beneath the seabed – using tried and tested technology that has been deployed across the globe for over 20 years.???
Win, Win: in a boost for economic growth, the new carbon capture and CCUS enabled hydrogen projects will create 4,000 new jobs (50,000 in the long-term) and help remove over 8.5 million tonnes of carbon emissions each year – the equivalent of taking around four million cars off the road.?
Ask the expert: “we can’t hit the country’s targets without CCUS so this commitment to it is very reassuring... we know these projects will provide good, reliable jobs in communities that need them” said the Climate Change Committee's acting CEO James Richardson.??
Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband said: “On Monday, 150 years of coal in this country came to an end. Today, a new era begins. By securing this funding, we pave the way for securing the clean energy revolution that will rebuild Britain’s industrial heartlands.”?
Record Pipeline of Clean Energy Projects: ??
One hundred and thirty-one: that's the new benchmark for green infrastructure projects secured through the Contracts for Difference scheme, with significant numbers for onshore wind, solar and tidal energy, which will power the equivalent of 11 million British homes.????
The deets: this includes the largest offshore windfarm project in Europe (Hornsea 3), the largest floating offshore wind project in the world to reach market (Green Volt), 6 new tidal projects and a combined 115 solar and onshore wind projects with projects agreed at well below the upper limit on the price set for the auction.?
The result? cheaper homegrown energy - helping to protect families and businesses from spiking global fossil fuel prices and moving Britain forward with mission to become a clean energy superpower.??
Great British Energy HQ: ???
Energy capital of Europe: Aberdeen was named the new home of Great British Energy, drawing on the city’s world-leading engineering expertise to kickstart a UK-wide clean energy revolution. With the Granite City at its heart, the new company will create skilled jobs across the UK and support economic growth.??
A tale of THREE cities: two additional sites will open in Edinburgh and Glasgow, once Great British Energy is up and running, to benefit from local skills and expertise.?
So, what next? an interim Chief Executive will soon be appointed to lead the launch of the new company and build its Aberdeen base. The new Chief Executive will work alongside the start-up Chair, Juergen Maier.?
Future of Grangemouth: ???
Working in lockstep:? The UK and Scottish governments announced a joint investment plan for Grangemouth following Petroineos’ decision to decommission its oil refinery and pledged to work together for an industrial future for the site.?
Delivering a plan: the three-point plan for a just transition for the workforce and community includes new funding for ￡100m package, immediate carer support for workers and a commitment from UK Government to develop Project Willow options, with potential?for?future support from the National Wealth Fund.?
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A single energy system: ???
Another milestone: Electricity and gas network planning to be brought under one roof, as the new independent National Energy System Operator (NESO) launches to achieve the clean energy transition - overseeing strategic planning and design of the country’s electricity and gas networks.??
What’s the deal? this follows on from the government agreement with National Grid to acquire and make the Electricity System Operator publicly owned. NESO will connect new generation projects with the electricity grid and help deploy renewable energy, working closely with Great British Energy.?
Leading the charge: newly appointed chair Dr Paul Golby and CEO Fintan Slye have already been given one of their first tasks by Head of Mission Control Chris Stark – to provide advice on options for how the UK will hit its goal to deliver clean power by 2030.?
Home Upgrade Revolution: ???
Warmer homes: over 1 million households are set to be lifted out of fuel poverty, as government announces plans for the biggest potential boost to home energy standards ever.?
Raising the standards: the Energy Secretary pledged to take action to reverse these failures of the past and stand with tenants, with a commitment to consult by the end of the year on boosting minimum energy efficiency standards for private and social rented homes by 2030.?
And that's not all: as part of the government's Warm Homes Plan, government also announced a new Warm Homes: Local Grant to help low-income homeowners and private tenants to with energy performance upgrades and cleaner heating, and confirmed the continuation of the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme, as well as the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund to support social housing providers and tenants.?
Other news: ???
Your views wanted: ???
Planning, Economics and Supply Operations at Valero Energy Corporation
5 个月Who pays for the CfD association with CO2 capture and storage is a key question. Will “reigniting the heartlands” add too much costs to businesses for any long term industrial benefit to occur?
SAV-Systems Account Manager, EnergiRaven enthusiast and owner of DBSA Ltd
5 个月Got excited when I read "Record Pipeline for Clean Energy" but sadly nothing on Heat Networks. Maybe NESO could include Heat Networks, with electricity and gas infrastructure, as a way to help decarbonise industry, balance the electricity grid and provide affordable heat for all? And speaking of Grangemouth..... https://www.energiraven.com/energi-havens/
Advising on clean-tech and energy efficiency.
5 个月I am perplexed about the UK GOV CCS announcement. Seems to be an ill thought through idea which will cost us all a great deal but (I suspect this is more than partly why) goes down well right now with certain unions.? As a technology it seemed complex, expensive and difficult when we had a serious look at investing in it in my PE days. I don’t detect a significant step forward in cost effectiveness which justifies a punt on the scale proposed. I wonder if any serious analysis or risk assessment has been undertaken? CCS is a ‘failure management’ tool in terms of energy and in a renewables and battery storage world is redundant It has some potential niche applications in certain sectors such as cement manufacture so, if anywhere, ?that’s where any investment could have been targeted. And even that assumes that more carbon friendly manufacturing technologies don’t get there first.? Contrast this with the abrupt cancellation of ￡1.7billion of AI investment which now puts UK in the slow lane in this important area.
Project Coordinator
5 个月I agree.
Electrical Systems Specialist.
5 个月CCUS (carbon capture utilisation or storage) will always suffer from poor economics. Every tonne of fossil fuel burned produces three tonnes of carbon dioxide as two oxygen atoms (atomic weight 16) bond to each carbon atom (atomic weight 12), trebling the weight. Who will pay for a CCUS industry three times the size of the fossil fuel industry yet running in the reverse direction (capturing and storing versus extracting and burning)? How and where will you store 3 tonnes of CO2 for every tonne of fossil fuel extracted??