Oct 15 2010
The UK power market faces an unprecedented challenge. It is now widely accepted that it will be necessary to have largely decarbonised the power sector by around 2030 in order to set the UK on the path to meet 2050 greenhouse gas reduction targets for the economy as a whole. This in turn will involve the replacement of a large proportion of the existing power generation fleet with new, low
Sep 15 2010
Introducing Emissions Performance Standards for power generation could play a key role in lowering the cost of the low carbon transition, E3G has argued in its response to the House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee inquiry into Emissions Performance Standards.
The response stresses that an Emissions Performance Standard (EPS) is a useful tool but not a silver bullet solution
Aug 16 2010
Tom Burke recently wrote an article to appear in Ends Magazine (Ends Report 426 / July 2010) calling out the nuclear industry’s call for ‘a level playing field’. Below is the article as it appeared in the magazine; it is also available to download.
Tony Benn, when he was energy secretary, used to warn about people who came to
Aug 16 2010
Politicians and leaders of energy companies both face a major choice regarding market reform over the coming months. In an article published in New Power magazine, E3G’s Simon Skillings sets out the key choices at stake for government and for business.
On the one hand there is the potential to ‘muddle through’ with incremental changes. However, there is also the possibility to seriously
Jul 02 2010
The European Commission is developing an Energy Strategy for 2011-2020. In response to the consultation, E3G welcomed the Commission’s renewed focus on completing the internal energy market, achieving energy savings and promoting low-carbon innovation. Our main conclusions and recommendations are:
The period to 2020 will be a crucial foundation stage for developing Europe’s energy system
Apr 14 2010
A major new report published this week shows that a zero carbon European power sector can be achieved at comparable levels of cost and reliability as the current high-carbon trajectory.
The Roadmap 2050 study, led by the European Climate Foundation (ECF), modeled the macroeconomic, grid and system security implications of a range of pathways to a zero carbon power sector, based on different
Apr 06 2010
The concept of a European Supergrid – a network of high-voltage international electricity interconnectors that enable power to be transmitted across Europe – is gaining prominence as a core element of proposals for a decarbonised European power sector.
It would enable energy to be transported from remote locations where renewable sources are plentiful to the demand centres where energy is
Feb 16 2010
There is emerging consensus over the important early actions that need to be taken if we are to meet our 2050 decarbonisation objectives. In particular, the widespread and urgent deployment of energy efficiency measures and the early decarbonisation of power generation.
Momentum behaviour by market actors is not going to deliver these objectives and change is necessary to kick-start the
Jan 26 2010
The concept of a ‘smart grid’ involves the combination of instrumentation, communications and analytics that allows power network infrastructure to be operated in a dynamic and efficient manner - as opposed to the ‘passive’ operational approach which is currently the norm in the UK.
The challenges of climate change and system security, in particular the ability to accommodate
Nov 25 2009
Creating a virtually zero emission EU power sector by around 2030 will require transformational change:
Climate science suggests increasing urgency in the need to reduce carbon emissions;
It is widely accepted that the power sector will play a key role in decarbonising the overall economy: the crucial technologies are already available to create a carbon free power sector and this, in turn,
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