Long-term scenarios: Energy pathways in the UK

Tavoni, Alessandro

doi:10.1038/nenergy.2017.34

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“…In response, the UK government has put in place a legally binding commitment to achieve 'net zero' carbon emissions by 2050 [1]. Meeting this target will have profound implications for the future roles of engineers across a wide range of disciplines [2,3]. This ongoing and rapidly accelerating expansion of the 'zero-carbon' energy sector is already resulting in increasing demands for highly skilled sustainable energy specialists across many disciplines, especially within the engineering, information technology and commercial domains [4][5][6].…”

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Adapt or Perish: A New Approach for Industry Needs-Driven Master’s Level Low-Carbon Energy Engineering Education in the UK

Rowley

Walker

2020

Energies

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This paper describes the results of recent research carried out with the UK energy sector to assess low-carbon related skills gaps and training requirements at the masters-level. Via iterative engagement across the industry, the characteristics of the market for new ‘needs-driven’ industry-focussed masters-level training offerings were defined. The results, taken together with the outcomes of a gap analysis of existing masters-level training, support the creation of a new framework for masters-level energy education that will more effectively meet the growing unmet need for such skills in the UK and beyond. The outcomes of the research indicate that flexibility in both delivery mode and curriculum content across both technical and non-technical disciplines is essential, along with improved supplier agility to rapidly develop new courses in evolving engineering specialisations. Without responding effectively to such demands from industry, we conclude that the advanced skills needed across the highly dynamic UK and global energy engineering sector will be in increasingly short supply.

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Adapt or Perish: A New Approach for Industry Needs-Driven Master’s Level Low-Carbon Energy Engineering Education in the UK

Rowley

Walker

2020

Energies

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The impact of energy systems demands on pressure limited CO 2 storage in the Bunter Sandstone of the UK Southern North Sea

Agada

Jackson

Kolster

et al. 2017

International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

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National techno-economic pathways to reduce carbon emissions are required for the United Kingdom to meet its decarbonisation obligations as mandated by the Paris Agreement. Analysis using energy systems models indicate that carbon capture and storage is a key technology for the UK to achieve its mitigation targets at lowest cost. There is potential to significantly improve upon the representation of the CO2 storage systems used in these models, but sensitivities of a given reservoir system to future development pathways must be evaluated. To investigate this we generate a range of numerical simulations of CO2 injection into the Bunter Sandstone of the UK Southern North Sea, considered to be one of the most important regional aquifers for CO2 storage. The scenarios investigate the sensitivity of CO2 storage to characteristics of regional development including number of injection sites and target rates of CO2 injection. This enables an evaluation of the impact of a range of deployment possibilities reflecting the range of scenarios that may be explored in an energy system analysis. The results show that limitations in achieving target injection rates are encountered at rates greater than 2 MtCO2/year-site due to local pressure buildup. The areal location of injection sites has minimal impact on the results because the Bunter Sandstone model has good regional connectivity. Rather, the depth of the site is the most important factor controlling limits on CO2 injection due to the relationship between the limiting pressure and the lithostatic pressure gradient. The potential for model simplification is explored by comparison of reservoir simulation with analytical models of average reservoir pressure and near-site pressure. The numerical simulations match average pressure buildup estimated with the “closed-box” analytical model of Zhou et al. (2008) over a 50 year injection period. The pressure buildup at individual sites is estimated using the Mathias et al. (2011) formulation and compared to the simulation response. Discrepancies in the match are mostly due to the interaction of signals from multiple injection sites and heterogeneous permeability in the numerical simulations. These issues should be the focus of further development of simplified models for CO2 storage in an energy systems analysis framework

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Long-term scenarios: Energy pathways in the UK

Cited by 2 publications

References 6 publications

Adapt or Perish: A New Approach for Industry Needs-Driven Master’s Level Low-Carbon Energy Engineering Education in the UK

Adapt or Perish: A New Approach for Industry Needs-Driven Master’s Level Low-Carbon Energy Engineering Education in the UK

The impact of energy systems demands on pressure limited CO 2 storage in the Bunter Sandstone of the UK Southern North Sea

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