Prime Ministers Strategy Unit 24 April 2014. Energy Industries and Technologies Unit 1 The Policy...

Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit

10 April 2023

ENERGY AND THE TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMME

J onathan Holyoak

Technology Manager: Emerging Energy Technologies

9 Feb 2006

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Energy Industries and Technologies Unit

• The Policy Context

• The Technology Programme within the innovation system

• The current R&D portfolio

• Looking to the future

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Policy Goals

• To put ourselves on a path to cut the UK’s carbon dioxide emissions by some 60% by about 2050, with real progress by 2020;

• To maintain the reliability of energy supplies (making sure the lights stay on);

• To promote competitive markets in the UK and beyond, helping to raise the rate of sustainable economic growth and to improve our productivity; and

• To ensure that every home is adequately and affordably heated.

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Multiple Drivers

• The business opportunity

• Emission reduction

• Renewables targets – 10% by 2010, 20% by 2020

• Security of supply

• Playing our part in the global challenge: G8/Kyoto post 2012

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Key Questions for the Review

1. The Government’s role in ensuring that the UK’s long term goal of reducing carbon emissions is met

2. Developing our market framework for delivering reliable energy supplies

3. Considerations applying to nuclear4. Considerations applying to carbon abatement and other low

carbon technologies5. Steps towards ensuring that every home is adequately and

affordably heated

The Government will review the UK’s progress against the medium and long-term Energy White Paper goals and the options for further steps to achieve them. The aim will be to bring forward proposals on energy policy [this] year.

Energy Review: terms of reference

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Energy Review: consultation process

Consultation document published 23 January

Consultation period till 14 April

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• Research councils programmes (e.g. Supergen)

• Technology Programme

• OGD programmes

• Carbon Trust R&D Programme

• International R&D – IEA, EU, etc

• Renewables Obligation

• Non Fossil Fuel Obligation

• Exemption from the Climate Change Levy

• Offshore wind capital grants scheme

• Marine Renewables Fund

• Bioenergy capital grants scheme

• Low Carbon Buildings Programme

• Hydrogen and Carbon Abatement Technology Demonstration Fund

The Government provides support to low carbon energy technologies at each stage of their development

The Government also support low carbon technologies through non-financial support:• Reform of planning regulations for renewables (PPS 22)• Committee on Radioactive Waste Management• Leading international effort to establish regulations for CCS

R&D• Basic research

Development• Applied research

Pre-commercial• Moving towards large

scale production

Demonstration• Early deployment of

emerging technologies

Tech Prog R&D is also critical to support demonstration activity

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£70 million p.a. by 2007/8 inc fusion

Gen IV advanced nuclear fission reactors - £5m p.a.

• Technology Programme

c £20m p.a.

• OGD programmes

(eg. DEFRA CHP = £2m 04/05)

• Carbon Trust R&D Programme

c. £ 2 million p.a.

Renewables Obligation will be worth up to around £500m 05/06 rising to £1bn by 2010.£32O million 2002-2008

The Government provides support to low carbon energy technologies at each stage of their development

The Government also support low carbon technologies through non-financial support:• Reform of planning regulations for renewables (PPS 22)• Committee on Radioactive Waste Management• Leading international effort to establish regulations for CCS

R&D• Basic research

Development• Applied research

Pre-commercial• Moving towards large

scale production

Demonstration• Early deployment of

emerging technologies

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The Technology Programme is the new(ish) mechanism which the Government uses to deliver support for collaborative research and development

SR2004 commits HMG to deliver £320 million through the Technology Programme over SR2004

The new and renewable energy R&D budget is now delivered though the Technology Programme

An independent Technology Strategy Board dominated by industry experts sets the priorities for each 6 monthly call

£35m so far committed to low carbon energy technologies, including £11m in the November 2005 competition – now closed

EPSRC co-funding

Business to business and science to business collaborations

Industry-Led R&D

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The portfolio of technologies and their current state of development:

RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT DEMONSTRATION DEPLOYMENT

Fusion

Generation IV nuclear reactors

Hydrogen and Fuel Cells

Bioenergy

Wave and Tidal

Next generation PV Microgeneration Technologies

Carbon Abatement Technologies

Offshore Wind Onshore wind

Intelligent Grid Management

Technology Programme

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Programme Performance

Measures

Technology route maps including milestones

and timescales

Progress against critical development issues for

technologies

Progress against technology cost &

performance measures

Demonstrable progress down research &

development chain

Successful exploitation outcomes

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Wave ProjectsPelamis Full Scale Demonstration (Ocean Power Delivery Limited)

Pelamis sea trials (courtesy of OPD Ltd)

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Fuel Cell Projects

Development of Innovative Metal Supported IT-SOFC Technology (Ceres Power Ltd)

10-layer Ceres Power short stack prior to testing. This stack delivered 160We at 600°C

Pressurisation of IP-SOFC Technology for Second Generation Hybrid Application (Rolls Royce plc)

The IP-SOFC Pressurised Rig

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• Tackling niche barriers

Wind Projects

Stealth Technology for Wind Turbines (BAE Systems Ltd)

Stealthy Wind Turbines – addressing the radar issue (Qinetiq and SSE Ltd)

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Building integrated renewables – PV+

• Next generation PV – organics/polymers

• Microgeneration systems

• Spillover benefits – architects, engineers

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Biomass

•Advanced conversion technologies

•Supply chain issues

•Biorefineries

•Biofuels

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Cleaner Fossil Fuels and C02 Capture and Storage

The Technologies

•Improved combustion efficiency (15-20% CO2)

•Fuel switching (5-10% CO2)

•Carbon Dioxide pre and post combustion capture and storage (90% CO2)

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Why CATs? – Fossil fuels continue to dominate Why CATs? – Fossil fuels continue to dominate world energy suppliesworld energy suppliesWorld electricity generation (IEA WEO 2004)World electricity generation (IEA WEO 2004)

Percentage electricity generated by different fuels

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5%10%

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25%30%

35%40%

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Intelligent Networks

•Handling dispersed intermittent sources of electricity

•Enabling distributed generation

•Storage

•Demand-side management

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1. Hoping to continue to develop the portfolio with a Technology Programme competition in April – subject to the Technology Strategy Board

2. UK Energy Research Centre’s Energy Research Atlas

Looking to the Future

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