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Available to purchase at.Martin and Adrian examine the societal and economic complexities involved, advocating for clear policy frameworks and collaborative efforts to stimulate investment and accelerate progress in these hard-to-reach areas, which are vital for the UK's net zero ambitions.. Click the 'play button' above to watch the episode, or read our 5 Key Takeaways from this episode below.... 1.

All of this work would turn these communities into clean energy hubs that will operate for decades to come..The future of coal.

Post-pandemic, we find coal surging to its highest ever level.In the UK we still have two gigawatts of coal in operation, and because the global recovery is an energy intensive process, places like China, Asia and Africa are burning coal to stimulate economic recovery.Of particular concern is the fact that we're currently expecting to see two terawatts of coal still in operation by mid-century, which would use up the entirety of our remaining carbon budget.

The urgency of the situation is heightened by the fact that current energy demand projections are likely incorrect, and don’t account for the vast increase in demand we’ll see as a result of the projected population increase of four billion people.. Coal is contributing not only to electricity generation, but to industrial emissions as well, and unfortunately, the reality is we don’t really know what trajectory we’re on with temperature increase and the climate emergency.The International Energy Agency modelling predicts a 1.8 degree trajectory, but that figure is based on all of the current commitments being met on issues like deforestation, methane emission reductions, and the updated nationally determined contributions (NDCs).

Realistically though, it’s unlikely all of the commitments will be met..

Furthermore, the 1.8 degree figure doesn’t include any meaningful increase in global energy access.proximity of the Chips to one another; which ones can/can’t be stacked, which ones have to be next to each other vs separated etc..

This allows an initial solution (or multiple solutions) to be developed, with pre-defined rules assuring compliance.These design solutions can be assessed and compared for optimisation of flows, simplicity of enabling works (cut and fill, extent of utilities works) etc..

This is not a complete design solution but can quickly generate a working feasibility model so clients can make highly informed decisions in days or weeks and at a fraction of the cost of a non ‘reference design’ approach.Clients can even take a virtual tour to aid their insight, feedback and input.