Cleantech Markets & Trends

[Hallucigenia]

Thought it would make sense to concentrate all the macro stuff about renewables etc into one threat, rather than slipping bits into the various company threads.

Aurora report on intermittency for the Solar Trade Association :
http://www.solar-trade.org.uk/wp-conten ... 031016.pdf
"We find that the cost of intermittency for the 11GW of solar currently on the system is £1.3/MWh. This figure would increase to around £6.8/MWh by 2030 as solar capacity reaches 40GW "

Although their argument is that some of the intermittency cost is negative as solar's intermittency means you add batteries which then have value for frequency control etc. I guess I'd look at it the other way, if you're buying batteries for frequency control (as National Grid did last summer) then that allows you tolerate more solar in the grid, but there's a problem if you're trying to use them for tactical and strategic purposes at the same time.

https://www.nao.org.uk/report/carbon-ca ... t-support/
"The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (the department) has not achieved value for money for its £100 million spend on the second competition for government financial support for carbon capture storage, according to the National Audit Office...

The Department has now tried twice to kick start CCS in the UK, but there are still no examples of the technology working. There are undoubtedly challenges in getting CCS established, but the Department faced an uphill battle as a result of the way it ran the latest competition.Not being clear with HM Treasury about what the budget is from the start would hamper any project, and caused particular problems in this case where the upfront costs are likely to be high. The Department must learn lessons from this experience if it is to stand any chance of ensuring the first CCS plants are built in the near future."