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Summary
Summary
Meeting targets aimed at tackling the climate change challenge requires moving towards a low-carbon economy. These targets can only be met with major reductions in carbon emissions from the electricity sector. Written by a team of leading academics and industry experts, Delivering a Low Carbon Electricity System analyses the social, technological, economic and political issues that affect the attempt to create a low-carbon electricity sector and assesses the main instruments for achieving this aim. The book begins by looking at how low-carbon generation technologies might be added in sufficient quantity to the electricity system. Next, it examines how networks and the demand side can help to decarbonise the sector. It then highlights the role of innovation and discusses instruments for promoting technological progress. Finally, given the economic framework and technological possibilities, it presents a number of general and specific policy instruments and options for the future.
Table of Contents
List of figures | p. viii |
List of tables | p. xii |
List of contributors | p. xv |
Foreword | p. xviii |
Acknowledgements | p. xx |
1 A low-carbon electricity sector for the UK: issues and options | p. 1 |
Part I The Fundamentals | p. 29 |
2 Calculating the social cost of carbon | p. 31 |
3 Technologies for a low-carbon electricity system: an assessment of the UK's issues and options | p. 64 |
4 The benefits of fuel mix diversity | p. 100 |
5 Variability and renewables | p. 133 |
6 Implications of intermittency and transmission constraints for renewables deployment | p. 157 |
Part II Incentives and the Demand Side: Demand-Side Management and System Requirements | p. 181 |
7 Electricity network investment and regulation for a low-carbon future | p. 183 |
8 Domestic electricity consumption and demand-side participation: opportunities and challenges for the UK power system | p. 207 |
9 Enhancing the efficient use of electricity in the business and public sectors | p. 229 |
Part III Investment, Price and Innovation | p. 257 |
10 Will the market choose the right technologies? | p. 259 |
11 Pricing carbon for electricity generation: national and international dimensions | p. 278 |
12 Learning curves for energy technologies: a critical assessment | p. 314 |
13 Accelerating innovation and strategic deployment in UK electricity: applications to renewable energy | p. 333 |
Part IV Scenarios, Options and Public Attitudes | p. 361 |
14 Scenarios of the electricity industry in Great Britain in 2020: networks, generation and decarbonisation | p. 363 |
15 Modelling the economic impact of low-carbon electricity | p. 394 |
16 Bridging technologies: can carbon capture and storage offer a bridge to a sustainable energy future in the UK? | p. 414 |
17 Reconsidering public acceptance of renewable energy technologies: a critical review | p. 443 |
18 A low-carbon electricity sector for the UK: what can be done and how much will it cost? | p. 462 |
Index | p. 498 |