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A post mortem of the Green Deal: Austerity, energy efficiency, and failure in British energy policy

by Vance Tan | Nov 16, 2016

The Green Deal was a British flagship policy intended to deliver energy efficiency retrofits at scale. About 2.5 years after its launch the programme was effectively terminated and is now seen as a dramatic policy failure. In this paper we analyse the reasons for the...

A post mortem of the Green Deal: Austerity, energy efficiency, and failure in British energy policy

by Vance Tan | Nov 16, 2016

The Green Deal was a British flagship policy intended to deliver energy efficiency retrofits at scale. About 2.5 years after its launch the programme was effectively terminated and is now seen as a dramatic policy failure. In this paper we analyse the reasons for the...

Quantifying the daily economic impact of extreme space weather due to failure in electricity transmission infrastructure

by Vance Tan | Oct 21, 2016

Extreme space weather due to Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) has the potential to cause considerable disruption to the global economy by destroying the Extra High Voltage (EHV) transformers required to operate electricity transmission infrastructure. This could lead to...

Role of power-to-gas in an integrated gas and electricity system in Great Britain

by Vance Tan | Jul 17, 2015

Power-to-gas (PtG) converts electricity into hydrogen using the electrolysis process and uses the gas grid for the storage and transport of hydrogen. Hydrogen is injected into a gas network in a quantity and quality compatible with the gas safety regulations and...

Impact of transition to a low carbon power system on the GB gas network

by Vance Tan | Jul 14, 2015

The reliance of Great Britain power generation on the gas network makes it critical to consider the future availability and cost of gas in planning the expansion of the power system. A combined gas and electricity network planning model was used to investigate impacts...
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