Fourth Update of December 2019 – An overview of last week’s Energy news

Below is this week’s summary. It should be a one minute read relevant to UK energy with links to documents for those who wish to read more.

(Click a bullet point to open the relevant article)

Monday – 23rd December

• UK National Gas Grid Transmission has set out a plan for a market-based transition to a sustainable system including the introduction of hydrogen into the gas grid.

• Swiss research aims to capture CO2 within a vehicle’s exhaust system.

Wednesday – 25th December

• The Electric Vehicle Infrastructure company Chargepoint suggests that cooking Christmas turkeys in the UK uses enough power to charge 36,000 Nissan Leafs all year.

Thursday – 26th December

• The Guardian reports that the UK is benefiting from reduced energy bills due to increased imports of liquid natural gas from USA, Russia and the Middle East.

Friday – 27th December

• The Telegraph reports that imports of natural gas from Russia to the UK doubled during 2019. Russia first shipped liquid natural gas to the UK from its Arctic processing plant in 2017.

• A report predicts that global offshore wind electricity generation capacity will rise from 23 GW in 2018 to 142 GW by 2030 led by UK, Germany, China, Denmark and Belgium.