Energy World - July/August 2011
Editorial
The likely cost of decarbonisation
Steve Hodgson
Viewpoint
CCS – the need to increase the pace
Mike Farley
News
International news
- Global energy growth ‘highest since 1970s'
- Plans to export 2 GW of solar power to Italy
- World’s longest power transmission link
- Pumped storage plant for India, upgrade for Portugal
- World’s largest gasification plant for Finland
- Failure to reach agreement on higher EU emission targets
- Germany leads move away from nuclear power
- New wind farms for US, Sweden and China
- New power plants for Russia, Hungary, Malaysia and Iraq
Home news
- Offshore wind farms for Scottish and Irish waters
- Electricity reform aims to keep the lights on in the cheapest, cleanest way
- Carbon emissions ‘rose by 3% in 2010’ due to cold weather
- Offshore wind: ‘costs will eventually fall’ as jobs are created
- Statoil opens new gas storage facility in Yorkshire
- Government simplifies the CRC scheme
- Large-scale solar farms beat the tariff reduction
Features
Earthquakes and energy infrastructure damage
Earthquakes have featured a lot in the press recently, and the Fukushima nuclear power plant has been the most obvious energy casualty. The pacific basin, an earthquake hotspot, has demonstrated energy infrastructure’s increasing vulnerability to the phenomenon in Chile and New Zealand as well, writes Maria Kielmas.
The event for energy procurement, management and efficiency
The Energy Event, taking place on 13–14 September 2011 at the Birmingham NEC, is the only UK energy event dedicated solely to energy procurement, management and efficiency. This year’s Energy Event will provide an extensive seminar programme addressing the key issues of energy availability, affordability and sustainability.
Carbon capture and storage
‘World’s largest’ power plant CCS project is capturing carbon; CCS could be worth £3bn to Scotland; EI CCS guidance and training; Alstrom CCS projects
Alberta takes CCS to the oil sands industry
Canada’s province of Alberta, home to the oil sands extraction industry, is also active in developing CCS technology – writes the Government of Alberta UK’s Jeffrey Sundquist.
Hedging your bets
UK businesses can no longer afford to ‘wait until the market comes down’ when it comes to making decisions on purchasing energy. David Hunter takes a look at the energy price environment both in the UK and for the rest of Europe, and how energy price volatility has made risk management an essential activity.
Managing more data
With energy managers having to deal with multiple sites, a greater penetration of smart meters and an array of legislation to reduce emissions, the use of spreadsheets to monitor, target and reduce energy use is looking outdated. There is now plenty of software out there to help manage an increasing amount of data. Marc Height takes a look at some.
Capital funding for power generation projects
This latest in a series of Energy Briefings published by the Energy Institute in partnership with Deloitte discusses how the proposed moves towards decarbonisation of the UK power sector might be funded.
New and improved HOF guidance
In 2003, the Energy Institute (EI) published a set of 16 briefing notes regarding human and organisational factors (HOF). The EI has recently published a new edition with updated and additional content. Here, the updated notes’ author, Bill Gall, explains.
Energy industry rises to the fundraising challenge
Over 200 participants from across the energy industry took part in the BG Energy Challenge 2011 – UK and helped raise a staggering £236,000 for benefiting charities CARE International, the overseas aid agency, and Sparks, the children’s medical research charity. Thirty-eight teams, including a team from media partner the Energy Institute, faced orienteering, running, cycling, canoeing and construction stages in and around the Gower Peninsula in South Wales from 7–9 July.
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