Interesting links, articles, news and blog posts sent out to members on 10/05/21.
News: Report: UK must more than double onshore wind capacity by 2030 to meet climate targets – Edie.net
7 May 2021. RenewableUK is urging Ministers to set specific, legally binding 2030 targets for renewable energy generation to help deliver its net-zero target, including growing the nation’s onshore wind capacity to 30GW:
Policy paper: Carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) supply chains: a roadmap to maximise the UK’s potential – Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
7 May 2021. This roadmap sets out how government and industry can work together to harness the power of a strong, industrialised UK CCUS supply chain:
Link: Carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) supply chains: a roadmap to maximise the UK’s potential
News: Report: China emissions exceed all developed nations combined – BBC News Online
7 May 2021. China emits more greenhouse gas than the entire developed world combined, a new report has claimed. The research by Rhodium Group says China emitted 27% of the world’s greenhouse gases in 2019:
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-57018837
News: Cutting methane gas ‘crucial for climate fight’ – BBC News Online
7 May 2021. Reducing emissions of methane gas is vital for tackling climate change in the short-term, a major UN report says:
Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56933443
Research Briefing: The UK Emissions Trading Scheme – House of Commons Library
4 May 2021. The UK left the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) at the end of the Brexit transition period and has implemented a UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS) to replace it:
Link: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9212
News: Ørsted says offshore UK windfarms need urgent repairs – Guardian Online
29 April 2021, Jillian Ambrose. Operator says it may need to spend £350m over two years to repair cable damage caused by seabed rocks:
News: ‘No sign of a roadmap’: PAC slams lack of leadership from HMRC and Treasury – Current News
29 April 2021, Molly Lempriere. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has criticised a “lack of leadership and coordination” from HMRC and the Treasury in targeting environmental action:
Link: ‘No sign of a roadmap’: PAC slams lack of leadership from HMRC and Treasury
Article: MPs warn lack of government strategy stalling community energy – Environment Journal
30 April 2021, Jamie Hailstone. A cross-party group of MPs has expressed disappointment that the government has failed to acknowledge the key role community energy can play to help achieve net zero targets:
News: MPs accuse Treasury and HMRC of shirking climate responsibilities – Edie.net
28 April 2021. The Treasury and HMRC are failing to respond to a “climate storm breaking all around us”, failing to make the necessary changes to tax systems and short-term funding packages needed for the ‘just’ transition to net-zero:
Link: https://www.edie.net/news/11/MPs-accuse-Treasury-and-HMRC-of-shirking-climate-responsibilities
National Statistics: Fuel poverty statistics projections 2021 – Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Fuel poverty statistics projections report for 2021:
Link: Fuel poverty statistics projections 2021
Consultation outcome: Implementing the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation – Department for Transport
28 April 2021. Proposals for implementing the international aviation carbon offsetting scheme (CORSIA):
Link: Implementing the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation
News: Ofgem launches consultation into half-hourly settlement – Current News
27 April 2021, Molly Lempriere. Ofgem has launched a consultation into the implementation and governance arrangements of the introduction of half-hourly settlement:
Link: Ofgem launches consultation into half-hourly settlement
News: Solar and wind could entirely displace fossil fuels by 2050 says Carbon Tracker – Current News
23 April 2021, Molly Lempriere. In less than a decade, solar power will be economic in comparison to local fossil fuels globally, while wind will be economic in more than half of cases:
Link: Solar and wind could entirely displace fossil fuels by 2050 says Carbon Tracker
News: ‘Insanely cheap energy’: how solar power continues to shock the world – Guardian Online
24 April 2021, Royce Kurmelovs. Australian smarts and Chinese industrial might made solar power the cheapest power humanity has seen – and no one saw it coming:
News: Government ‘abandoned’ Green Homes Grant scheme, say MPs – The Energyst
23 April 2021, Alban Thurston. The Johnson government walked away from its undelivered flagship policy to insulate Britain’s energy-wasting homes, MPs claim in a scathing new report:
Link: Government ‘abandoned’ Green Homes Grant scheme, say MPs
News: Labour unveils £30bn plan to create 400,000 green jobs – Guardian Online
22 April 2021. Keir Starmer sets out scheme to bolster UK economy with secure jobs in clean industries: