Transcript Alan Walker, RAE

The Royal Academy of
Engineering:
Our perspective on CCS
Dr Alan Walker
Policy Advisor, The Royal Academy of Engineering
The Academy
We are Britain’s national academy of engineering, bringing
together the country’s most eminent engineers from all
disciplines.
Strategic Priorities: Leading Debate
“…influence public policy making; provide a forum for the
mutual exchange of ideas; and pursue effective
engagement with society on matters within our
competence.”
Lord Browne of Madingley’s Presidential Priorities:
• Climate Change and Energy
• Poverty Reduction
• Health and Wellbeing
Need to find practical and feasible engineering solutions
Government
• Stern Review: “Policies are required to support the
development of a range of low-carbon and high-efficiency
technologies on an urgent timescale.”
• UK Climate Change Bill: This will put into statute targets to
reduce emissions of CO2 by at least 60% by 2050 relative to
1990
• UK demonstration plant competition: Project to
demonstrate post-combustion CCS on a coal fired (300MW)
power plant with offshore storage by 2014
BUT…
•
Coal reserves of approximately 164 years, mainly in
USA, China, Russia and India
•
In 2006, 38% of electricity supplied in the UK was
generated from coal (Dukes)
IEA World Energy Outlook
The Reference Scenario: World Primary Energy Demand
© OECD/IEA - 2007
IEA World Energy Outlook
The Alternative Policy Scenario CO2 Reductions
© OECD/IEA - 2007
IEA World Energy Outlook
Beyond the Alternative Policy Scenario
© OECD/IEA - 2007
CO2 Capture & Storage Workshop
• Co-hosted by the Royal Society, the
Royal Academy of Engineering and the
IEA Coal Industry Advisory Board on 7 &
8 Nov 2008
• “Failure to succeed with CCS would force
painful and perhaps unmanageable
policy choices between pursuing energy
security and addressing climate change.
In this respect, CCS emerges as an
indispensable part of the solution.”