Renewables Route Map Environment Agency Wales View

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Renewables Route MapEnvironment Agency Wales
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Renewable Numbers 2025
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Fossil Fuel Numbers 2025
At these load factors the total C02 emitted/year
8 9 million tonnes This table does not imply
any decision by the Environment Agency, it is for
illustration only
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More Numbers 2025 1
High Renewable installation 31.8 TWhr/yr Low
Renewable installation 12.5 TWhr/yr Low
Severn Barrage 21.19 TWh/yr Fossil Fuelled
40.5 TWhr/yr (/- 20) Total Production 2025 50
to 75 TWhrs Electricity consumed Wales 2008 24
TWhr Assume demand management successful
then Electricity consumed Wales 2025 16 20
TWhr What will happen to the surplus of 34
59 TWhr?
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More Numbers 2025 2

Power Stations 8 9 million tonnes CO2 Corus
Steel Works 5 million tonnes CO2 Oil Refineries
4 million tonnes CO2 Padeswood Cement 0.75
million tonnes CO2 Total 18 19 million
tonnes CO2 Equivalent Total 2008 22 million
tonnes CO2
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Future UK Mix?

Possible Total Production in Wales 2025 50 to
75 TWhrs (13 18 of UK total)
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The Potential Surplus?

• In the current policy vacuum are the
• Generators edging their bets?
• renewables CCGT Nuclear Coal CCS
• Could be sold to the rest of the UK and
• Ireland or to an EU supergrid?
• 3 Could it power transport? electric
• vehicles, rail electrification thus
• displacing CO2 direct emissions from
• transport

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The Politically Incorrect Bit
OK Gentlemen lets brainstorm alternative energy
sources