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A UK ‘dash’ for smart gas
Posted on: 19 March 2013
By: mackene
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Unconventional gas sources such as shale gas could have a role to play in helping to decarbonise the UK energy sector, according to a new report published by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. The report suggests that natural gas, including from unconventional sources, has an important role to play in the transition to low-carbon electricity generation. Replacing coal power stations with gas over the short term would help to reduce UK carbon emissions, as gas emits less than half the carbon dioxide per kilowatt-hour of coal. However in the long term emissions from gas-fired power stations would prevent us from meeting the UK’s carbon targets, “unless it is accompanied by the widespread introduction of carbon capture and storage technology”.
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