This chapter has discussed the development of smart grids and enhanced transmission and distribution networks of the future, anticipated to be in place within two decades has provided details of additional technical, environmental and economic resource materials. It has also looked carefully into several aspects of renewable energy, wind farms, nuclear energy prospects post the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011, some worrying cyber issues, future trends and concerns relating to ever-increasing energy consumer bills, energy subsidies being paid for by UK customers.
Chapter Contents:
- 23.15 Introduction
- 23.16 International takeovers in UK power sector and possible impacts
- 23.16.1 Warning: kid gloves treatment
- 23.17 Some aspects of renewable energy development in the UK
- 23.17.1 Energy-mix and perceived renewable energy costs (2004-10)
- 23.17.2 Renewable energy vs landscape calculations (The Sunday Times, 20/11/11)
- 23.17.3 UK energy storage: call to build a series of dams to store power from wind turbines (after D. MacKay) (Jonathan Leake, The Sunday Times, 18/3/12)
- 23.17.4 Press articles: Some very public energy discussions (commentaries on articles by D. Fortson et al. , The Times, 2010-12)
- 23.18 UK government's recent wind of change
- 23.19 Nuclear power plants: recent events and future prospects
- 23.19.1 Fukushima nuclear accident: short-term impact on global developments
- 23.19.2 Future nuclear developments
- 23.19.3 Future prospects of 'new-build' nuclear plants overseas
- 23.20 Some aspects of carbon trading
- 23.20.1 Coal-fired to co-fired stations in the UK to avoid paying rising climate taxes (after Danny Fortson, The Sunday Times, Energy Environment, 26/2/12)
- 23.20.2 Frying note: storage energy back-up
- 23.21 A new green technology: carbon capture and storage (CCS) (Tim Webb, The Times Business Dashboard, 29/3/12)
- 23.21.1 Some committed CCS developments worldwide
- 23.22 Recent developments in UK Network/European Grid links
- 23.22.1 New UK/International DC cable links
- 23.22.2 Proposal case for a North Sea super grid (NSSG)
- 23.22.3 Challenges facing AC offshore substations for wind farms and preliminary guidelines for design and construction
- 23.22.4 Network upgrades and some operational experiences
- 23.23 Some UK operational difficulties with wind farms
- 23.23.1 Wind farms paid £900,000 to switch off (1)
- 23.23.2 Storm shut-down is blow to the future of wind turbines (2) (Jon Ungoed-Thomas and Jonathan Leake, The Sunday Times, 11/12/11)
- 23.23.3 Energy speculators now bet on wind farm failures (3) (J. Gillespie, The Times, December 2011)
- 23.23.4 Millions paid to wind farm operators to shut down (4)
- 23.23.5 Clean energy financial support; impact of Scotland leaving the Union after an independence vote in 2014 (5) (Karl West, The Sunday Times, 22/1/2012)
- 23.23.6 Crown Estate: Scottish assets worth arguing over in independence debate [6] (Deirdre Hipwell, The Times, 21/06/2012, pp. 34-5)
- 23.23.7 Some poor wind farm performance statistics
- 23.23.8 'Flying wind farms pluck energy out of the blue', states Gillespie in The Sunday Times (08/07/12, p. 7)
- 23.24 UK air-defence radar challenged by wind turbines
- 23.25 Noise pollution: wind turbine hum (The Sunday Times, 18/12/11)
- 23.26 Balancing fluctuating wind energy with fossil power stations
- 23.27 Future developments including smart grids
- 23.27.1 US study by Gellings et al. from EPRI [30] (1)
- 23.27.2 Some CIGRE perspectives of energy activities and future development [35] (2)
- 23.28 Discussion and conclusions
- 23.28.1 Discussion
- 23.28.2 Conclusions
- References
- Appendices
- A: Cyber-crime and cyber-security
- B: Cyber-crime
- C: CIGRE: Treatment of information security for electric power utilities
Inspec keywords:
transmission networks;
nuclear power;
smart power grids;
power engineering computing;
environmental factors;
distribution networks;
renewable energy sources
Other keywords:
Fukushima nuclear accident;
nuclear power;
smart grids;
ESI development;
cyber issues;
renewable energy;
environmental resources;
economic resources;
nuclear energy prospects;
energy consumer bill;
energy subsidies;
transmission network;
distribution network;
wind farms;
environmental issues
Subjects:
Environmental factors;
Power engineering computing;
Power systems;
Power transmission, distribution and supply;
Energy resources;
Nuclear power stations and plants;
Other topics in energy research and environmental science;
Other topics in energy resources;
Nuclear energy
