We received the sixth report from the Joint Energy Security of Supply Working Group (JESS) recently (May 06), this follows the fifth report published way back in November 04. In the third paragraph of the report they state:
In a market-based system such as the UK’s, the provision of adequate energy supplies to meet demand […]
We are still waiting for the JESS Report. Steve Davies, JESS Secretariat promised it to us week commencing 01-May-06 yet it never appeared, then Malcolm Wicks himself told us from the floor of the house that it would be published week commencing 08-May-06 and yet we still haven’t seen it.
In a similar vein however […]
It is often said that peak oil (and gas) will usher in a new coal era, coal to replace gas for electricity generation, coal to meet increased electricity demand as direct consumption of oil and gas shifts towards electricity and the possible revival of coal to gas and coal to liquid projects.
The justification for such […]
The title is not my own but rather the title of a news story published on the BBC News website this morning (Sun 16th Apr06).
The article reported on The Commons Environmental Audit Committee report about the UK energy gap and included this line:
“Its chairman, Conservative MP Tim Yeo, says ‘more gas fired power […]
Here I will briefly summarise the papers from the first day of the Royal Society’s recent conference.
Sir David King - Chief Scientific Advisor
Energy for a sustainable future
A very solid presentation on climate change, stressing that due to inertia of the global system further warming over the coming decades is inevitable. As a consequence millions […]
It has been apparent since the summer of 2005 that gas supplies this winter were going to be tight. Despite this the UK energy minister Malcolm Wicks had the audacity to state that the country was “awash with gas” when the evidence showed the situation to be tighter than ever.
Events are transpiring against us […]
One of the most significant decisions facing the UK this year is what to do about the ageing fleet of nuclear power stations. The UK pioneered civilian nuclear power generation with a young Queen Elizabeth II opening the world’s first public grid connected power station on 17th October 1956. Calder Hall’s four 50MW […]
For the last couple of hours I’ve been reading in amazement a report from Deloitte’s Energy, Infrastructure and Utilities division. Its title: 2020 vision - Meeting UK power generation objectives in 2020.
I say reading in amazement since it is exactly the report I would have written had I had the resources. The […]
18 miles off the East coast of Yorkshire on Thursday 16th Feb there was an accident, an explosion and fire on a gas platform. 2 people were injured and 31 of the 58 staff evacuated to shore. This accident on the Bravo gas rig could have far greater ramifications over the weeks ahead.
The platform […]
Nuclear power is often touted as a solution for fossil fuel depletion with France held up as a shining example as what can be done. An example of a country successfully running on nuclear power, proving for all the world to see, how viable nuclear is. I thought I’d better look at the […]