GAS (fossil fuels) needed for low-carbon targets says National Grid
Posted: April 8, 2018 Filed under: BIG Government, Carbon Tax, Failed Green Schemes, Fossil Fuels, Govt Climate Agenda, Green Agenda | Tags: Climate Change, Climate Policy, Energy Poverty, Fossil Fuels, Fuel Poverty, Green Energy Failure, Natural Gas, PARIS Agreement, UK Leave a commentAMUSES me every time: fossil fuels needed to reduce fossil fuel emissions to meet anti-fossil fuel Paris commitments. 🤦♂️
By Paul Homewood
Bit by bit, some reality appears to be intruding into the make believe world of the Climate Change Act:
No credible scenario’ exists for hitting the UK’s 2050 decarbonisation targets without continued reliance on gas, the National Grid has warned.
In a new report, entitled The Future of Gas: How gas can support a low carbon future’, the grid says that it is not feasible to switch over to electric heating on the scale required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 80 per cent of 1990 levels by the middle of this century.
To fill the gap required to meet peak heating demand during the winter with electricity would require a seven-fold increase in generation capacity.
It says that while electricity demand currently peaks at around 60 GW, up to 350 GW of electricity would be required during winter cold snaps.
“Electrifying heating would therefore require enormous…
View original post 451 more words
Recent Comments