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Low Carbon Energy International Parliamentary Conference on Climate Change

Low Carbon Energy International Parliamentary Conference on Climate Change. Professor Jim Skea Research Director, UK Energy Research Centre. Park Plaza, Westminster Bridge, London 15 July 2010. Decarbonisation: the big picture Power sector Transport Bringing it all together.

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Low Carbon Energy International Parliamentary Conference on Climate Change

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  1. Low Carbon EnergyInternational Parliamentary Conference on Climate Change Professor Jim Skea Research Director, UK Energy Research Centre Park Plaza, Westminster Bridge, London 15 July 2010

  2. Decarbonisation: the big picture • Power sector • Transport • Bringing it all together

  3. The decarbonisation story… Reducing power sector emissions: Renewables (Wind, solar, tidal and marine, biomass), nuclear, CCS Application of power to transport and heat • Reducing heat emissions: • Energy efficiency • Behaviour change • Electric heat (e.g. heat pumps, storage heating) • Biomass boilers • CCS in industry • Reducing transport emissions: • Fuel efficiency • Electric/plug-in hybrids • Sustainable Bio fuels Source: Committee on Climate Change

  4. Decarbonising power • The electrification of other sectors will see demand increase in 2020s and 2030s • Therefore we need to significantly decarbonise electricity generation by 2030 Source: Committee on Climate Change

  5. Generic options for reducing CO2 behaviour bio-energy fossil fuels with carbon capture and storage efficiency nuclear renewables

  6. Renewables

  7. Global wind capacity Source: Global Wind Energy Council

  8. Costs of generating power Source: ExxonMobil

  9. Integrating low carbon power • We built our grids, markets and regulatory systems for coal and gasgeneration • Need arrangements for low carbon energy that has: • high capital costs • low running costs • We need to cope with intermittent renewable energy

  10. CO2 emissions – new UK cars Source: SMMT

  11. Incremental transport improvements Source: ExxonMobil

  12. Electrification of transport… battery electric mild hybrid full hybrid plug-in hybrid

  13. And don’t forget…….. biofuels the hydrogen economy

  14. The smart grid Source: Wang

  15. Technology’s contribution to a 2OC world Source: IEA

  16. UK Energy Research Centre +44 (0)20 7594 1574 www.ukerc.ac.uk

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