Renewable energy deployment and costs in the UK: spatial analysis taking into account policy, social and environmental land use constraints
Ms Marianne Zeyringer, UCL Energy Institute, United Kingdom Dr Dennis Konadu, UCL Energy Institute,United Kingdom Dr James Price, UCL Energy Institute, United Kingdom Dr Sheila Samsatli, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Dr Zenaida Sobral-Mourao, University of Cambridge,United Kingdom The UK is committed to reduce its GHG emissions by at least 80% in 2050 from 1990 levels (Parliament of the United Kingdom, 2008). Pacala, (2004) states that the portfolio of energy technologies to tackle the climate problem in the next 50 years is already industrially available. This assumption implies large scale deployment of nuclear energy and/or renewable energy sources (RES). The location of RES determines the total output and the timing of production. This means that the LCOE and integration costs are location dependent. There is a significant body of literature that analyses spatially the potential of RES in the UK: Gooding et al., (2013) for PV; Aylott et al., (2010), Tenerelli and Carver, (2012) and Lovett et al., (2014) for biomass energy; Drew et al., (2013) and Samsatli et al., (2016) for wind turbines. Evidence also exists in the literature that landscape is very important Read more…
Categories: Academic Papers, Energy modelling, Renewables
Tags: energy modelling, renewable energy
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2016