The UK Experience

Slide 1:The UK Experience Clean Energy, Good Governance and Regulation Andrew Walker – March 2008

Slide 2:What is Clean Energy?  Renewables - bio-fuels, cost effectiveness, implementation or development?  Nuclear - what about the waste?  Carbon capture and storage - will it work on a large scale?

Slide 3:UK Experience – Clean Energy  Renewables – in 2006 about 5½GW of capacity generating about 5½ per cent of electricity  Nuclear – in 2006 about 11GW of capacity generating about 19 per cent of electricity

Slide 4:UK Experience - Strengths  Early commitment to renewable energy with the introduction of the NFFO in 1990  Political consensus – support for renewable energy, Stern Review and White Paper on Nuclear Power  Resource base for renewable energy – Severn Barrage 8½GW and offshore wind +200