Tagged: carbon capture and storage
Energy policy is about more than Hinkley, says CCC
The Government has confirmed it will go ahead with a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C. However, delivering a cost-effective, secure and low-carbon power system will require a number of further decisions about the power sector, the Committee on Climate Change says.
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CCC welcomes renewed interest in Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) today welcomes renewed interest in Carbon Capture and Storage technology, given its potential importance in reducing UK emissions at least cost. The technology is the subject of a major new independent review by the Parliamentary Advisory Group on CCS.
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Letter to Rt Hon Amber Rudd: A strategic approach to Carbon Capture and Storage
This is a letter to the Right Honorable Amber Rudd, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, outlining a new strategic approach to Carbon Capture and Storage in the UK in the wake of the cancellation of the CCS Commercialisation Programme in November 2015.
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Meeting Carbon Budgets – 2016 Progress Report to Parliament
This is the Committee’s eighth annual report detailing the UK’s progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meeting carbon budgets. The report shows that UK emissions have fallen rapidly in the power sector, but that progress has stalled in other sectors, such as heating in buildings, transport, industry and agriculture.
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Good progress in reducing UK emissions will not continue without urgent action to strengthen policies
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has published its 2016 Progress Report to Parliament detailing the UK’s progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meeting carbon budgets. The report shows that UK emissions have fallen by an average of 4.5% per year in the last three years and are 38% below 1990 levels. This reduction in emissions has come almost exclusively from one sector: electricity generation, where UK Government policies have driven an increase in renewable generation and a reduction in coal use.
Implications of the Paris Agreement for the fifth carbon budget
A letter from the Committee on Climate Change to the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, The Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP, setting out how the outcome of COP21, and other significant changes, affect the CCC’s advice on the recommended level of the fifth carbon budget.
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The fifth carbon budget – The next step towards a low-carbon economy
This report presents the Committee’s advice on the fifth carbon budget, covering the period 2028-32, as required under Section 34 of the Climate Change Act 2008. The Committee recommends that the fifth carbon budget is set at 1,765 MtCO2e, including emissions from international shipping, over the period 2028-2032. That would limit annual emissions to an average 57% below 1990 levels.
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Sectoral scenarios for the fifth carbon budget – Technical report
This technical report accompanies the fifth carbon budget – the next step towards a low-carbon economy, the Committee’s published advice on the level of the fifth carbon budget. It describes the scenarios used by the Committee to inform its judgements over the cost-effective path.
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Power sector scenarios for the fifth carbon budget
This report sets out scenarios for the UK power sector in 2030 as an input to the Committee’s advice on the fifth carbon budget, given the importance of the power sector to meeting economy-wide emissions targets.
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Imperial (2015): Value of flexibility in a decarbonised grid and system externalities of low-carbon generation technologies
This research report aims to explicitly identify and quantify the system integration costs of low-carbon generation technologies in the context of the future, largely decarbonised UK electricity system.
