Powering Up for the Future: From Consumption to Optimisation
Laura Sandys, CEO Challenging Ideas, this week launches the first episode and headline findings of her latest report ReCosting Energy. Published ahead of the imminent Government Energy White Paper, recommendations include changing energy system objectives, which include moving from consumption to optimisation; and getting more from less across five key drivers of cost and value – Carbon, Capital, Capacity, Costs, and most importantly Customers.
Reforming Offshore Wind
The following document, shared here by James Cartlidge MP, Member of Parliament for South Suffolk, is a joint MP response to National Grid ESO (NGESO) Offshore Coordination Project consultation Autumn 2020. It follows a series of virtual conversations with: the Energy Minister, Rt Hon Kwasi Kwarteng, and other officials at BEIS; overseas grid operators (e.g. Elia, Belgium); OFGEM; NGESO; technical specialists; local campaigners.
Engineering Net Zero
Discussing what is achievable in engineering terms on the journey to Net Zero, we share here the Atkins ‘Engineering Net Zero’ Technical Report.
WildEast: The Mission
Looking to the future, the 50-year long WildEast project aims to make East Anglia one of “the world’s great nature reserves” and Britains first regional nature recovery project.
‘An escape route into another world’: canoeing in Suffolk
This article by Patrick Barkham discusses the captivating experience of canoeing along the clear waters of the Waveney.