Outstanding issues from Parts 1 and 2, November 2022

The presentations on electricity generation were written in 2019 and have not been updated. There have been many developments since then of course, both technical and commercial and these are listed below. Future STEM meetings might return to one or more of these topics.

Technical issues

⦁ Security of supply, electricity and gas
⦁ Onshore and offshore wind turbines
⦁ Large scale and domestic solar power
⦁ Land use – power, food or rewilding
⦁ Hydrogen economy
⦁ Large scale electricity and gas storage

⦁ Fracking
⦁ Nuclear power – fusion (Sizewell C) and fission (West Burton), SMRs
⦁ Life extension of coal-fired (and nuclear) power stations
⦁ Carbon capture and storage
⦁ DRAX - “a renewable energy company”?

Commercial issues

⦁ Collapse of energy suppliers, e.g. Robin Hood Energy
⦁ Energy price cap
⦁ Smart meters
⦁ Energy spot market price volatility
⦁ Demand side management
⦁ Windfall taxes
⦁ Agile pricing, e.g. Octopus Energy