The UK’s target for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and the associated engineering challenges

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• Prof Keith Bell, University of Strathclyde
• Thursday 10 October 2019, 14:00-15:00
• 1109B (CAP seminar room) .

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The Committee on Climate Change (the CCC ) is an independent, statutory body established under the Climate Change Act 2008, with a purpose to advise the UK Government and Devolved Administrations on emissions targets and to report to Parliament on progress made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for climate change.

Keith Bell became a member of the CCC in April 2019. In this talk, he outlines the background to the CCC ’s advice on net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, recently instituted as a target by the UK Parliament. He points to some of the main challenges in different sectors and highlights some of the ways in which engineers’ creativity will be key to making a low carbon energy system function safely and reliably and at least cost.

Bio: Keith Bell holds the ScottishPower Chair in Smart Grids at the University of Strathclyde, is a co-Director of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC), a Chartered Engineer and, since April 2019, a member of the Committee on Climate Change. In addition to teaching and being involved with energy system research in collaboration with many academic and industrial partners, he has a number of additional roles including with the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, The IET Power Academy and CIGRE where he is an invited expert member of Study Committee C1 on System Development and Economics. In recent years, has given advice on electricity system issues to the Scottish Government, Ofgem, BEIS and the Government of Ireland.

This talk is part of the Control and Power Seminars series.

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