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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
16. The Pugwash UK 2050 High Renewables Pathway
Authors : David Elliott, David Finney
Published in: Renewable Energy in the Service of Mankind Vol II
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
Making use of the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) 2050 Pathways Calculator, in 2013 the British Pugwash group produced a report with three basic UK scenarios: High Nuclear, High Renewables and an Intermediate pathway. This chapter summarises the conclusions from the high renewables scenario, in which around 80 % of UK energy will be supplied from renewables by 2050, with full grid balancing, at a slightly lower cost and with lower emissions than for the Pugwash High Nuclear and Intermediate scenarios. Export of surplus electricity could earn around £ 15 billion p.a., or if a ‘power to gas’ conversion route was adopted an extension to near 100 % renewables was considered possible.