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creators_name: Taylor, Peter
creators_name: Bolton, Ronan
creators_name: Stone, Dave
creators_name: Zhang, Xiao-Ping
creators_name: Martin, Chris
creators_name: Upham, Paul
creators_name: Li, Yongliang
creators_name: Porter, Richard
creators_name: Pereira Bonvallet, Eduardo
title: Pathways for Energy Storage in the UK
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divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C05
divisions: F43
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abstract: The UK has significant technology and policy gaps that need closing if it is to deliver on the legislated 80% carbon reduction by 2050. The lack of suitable planned energy storage capability is at the top of this list. The ability to store energy is a key component to ensure national security of energy supply and allow credible implementation of renewable energy and to use
available sources of heat.
Unlike coal, gas and petroleum, which are available in a physical form, renewable supplies of energy (solar, wind, wave) are ‘virtual’ and often only available at a specific location and moment in time. Renewable energy forms need to be captured and stored to supply increasingly complex user demands.
This is a core requirement for our national resilience to an
increasing reliance on such variable energy sources. Recently we have become all too familiar with the dire consequences of the gap in our storage capacity – most notably through the example of wind power suppliers being paid not to generate and supply into the grid even when the wind is active!
Future scenarios indicate that energy storage is essential to reduce the burden on the national grid. The use of electric vehicles and ground source pumps in domestic use will increase demand very substantially and intolerably on our grid. Storage is not an
option but a necessity.
Key challenges for the UK are to:
• understand what types of storage are needed, how much and where it should be deployed in the energy system
• develop a coherent policy approach to energy storage
• stimulate governance and business models to enable
rapid implementation.
date: 2012-03-27
date_type: published
publisher: The Centre for Low Carbon Futures
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
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lyricists_name: Porter, Richard
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actors_name: Porter, Richard
actors_id: RTJPO82
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
number: 007
place_of_pub: York, UK
pages: 56
citation:             Taylor, Peter;    Bolton, Ronan;    Stone, Dave;    Zhang, Xiao-Ping;    Martin, Chris;    Upham, Paul;    Li, Yongliang;          + view all  <#>        Taylor, Peter;  Bolton, Ronan;  Stone, Dave;  Zhang, Xiao-Ping;  Martin, Chris;  Upham, Paul;  Li, Yongliang;  Porter, Richard;  Pereira Bonvallet, Eduardo;   - view fewer  <#>     (2012)    Pathways for Energy Storage in the UK.                    The Centre for Low Carbon Futures: York, UK.       Green open access   
 
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