The Energy Technologies Institute, working with the Energy System Catapult, released its report Options, Choices, Actions [updated 2018]. This included updates to two illustrative cost-optimised decarbonisation scenarios for the UK energy system – Clockwork and Patchwork – either of which would meet the UK’s 2050 climate targets. One of the supporting conclusions in the report was that commercial development and deployment of new nuclear remained a priority as part of the future energy mix, assuming costs could be contained. This insight report summarises the learning from the ETI’s Nuclear Cost Drivers (NCD) project which was commissioned through open competitive procurement, delivered by the organisation now known as Lucid-Catalyst, and reported in April 2018. It also reports the learning from applying the nuclear cost drivers data and associated learning through sensitivity testing in the ESME whole system modelling tool now operated by the Energy System Catapult. This report is intended to be an update to the first ETI nuclear insight report released in October 2015, entitled Nuclear – the role for nuclear within a low carbon energy system, and for completeness also summarises developments in the UK nuclear context since 2015.
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New nuclear plants are well-placed to form a major part of an affordable low-carbon transition in the UK, the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) says in a report it published today. It is the latest from the ETI’s Nuclear Cost Drivers (NCD) project, which it launched in October 2017.
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A ‘Call to Action’ for accelerating innovative solutions to sustain and advance the current operational fleet of nuclear power plants has been issued by the attendees of the Global Forum on Innovation for the Future of Nuclear Energy, held last week in Gyeongju, South Korea.
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Latest ETI report supports development of large, small and advanced modular reactors in UK’s transition to a low carbon economy. The Energy Technologies Institute has issued a new report today calling for an update to the role for nuclear in the UK’s transition to a low carbon economy. The report which can be found here summarises the learnings from the ETI’s Nuclear Cost Drivers project and applies these to the ETI’s ESME whole system modelling tool. The report states that new plants can form a major part of an affordable low carbon transition and that large-scale nuclear reactors are best suited for baseload electricity.
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