Energy Security Day: a sign of innovations to come?
30 March 2023 marks ‘Energy Security Day’, when the UK Government launches its revised net zero and energy security strategy.
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30 March 2023 marks ‘Energy Security Day’, when the UK Government launches its revised net zero and energy security strategy.
Towards the end of 2022, the European Patent Office (EPO) launched its first ever “CodeFest”, a competition to help tackle the perennial problem of plastic waste and moving to a circular plastics supply chain.
The Department for Transport has recently released a report outlining statistics for the supply of renewable fuel to the UK in 2021. According to the report, 5.4% of fuel supplied to the UK mobile machinery market in 2021 was from renewable sources, down from 5.9% in 2020. These amounts fall short of the target set in the Renewable Energy Directive for the UK to have 10% of all fuel supplied as renewable by 2020. However, average greenhouse gas (GHG) savings in 2021 (83% when compared to fossil fuels) showed a steady increase from previous years, indicating an improvement in the sustainability of the renewable fuel supplied to the UK transport market.
In the race to Net Zero, wind energy is already a well-established and prominent generation source. Assisted by the record 55% growth in wind power capacity worldwide between 2020 and 2021, it is eclipsing the growth of all other renewable power technologies, suggesting that the industry is on track to meet its prediction of supplying more than one-third of total electricity demand by 2050.
I recycle, and I like to think I know what I am doing. Paper and card goes in the little black boxes. Garden waste goes in the green bin. Food waste goes in the little green caddie. Glass, tins, and plastic all go in the black bin.
The shift away from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources is well underway, albeit slowly. In 2020, a record 47.1 percent of the electricity generated in the UK came renewable sources, and this doesn’t even include nuclear power. The majority of this renewable energy comes from wind power; something the UK is becoming rather good at.
At a time when climate change mitigation and energy security are more critical than ever, the production of ‘low carbon’ hydrogen has been identified as a key element in the UK government’s energy security strategy. With its potential to provide a clean, homegrown source of fuel for a wide range of applications, the UK has ambitiously doubled its target for low carbon hydrogen production capacity from 5GW by 2030 to 10GW. In this blog, we look at developments in technology related to ‘green hydrogen’ – the cleanest form of low carbon hydrogen.
Following a successful first year, the cohort of finalists for Year 2 of the Earthshot Prize have now been announced. Over 1000 nominations from 100 countries have been narrowed down to fifteen finalists, three in each of the five categories – the “Earthshots” – Protect and Restore Nature, Clean Our Air, Revive Our Oceans, Build A Waste Free World and Fix Our Climate.
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