Positive Energy: how renewable electricity can transform ... - WWF UK
Positive Energy: how renewable electricity can transform ... - WWF UK
Positive Energy: how renewable electricity can transform ... - WWF UK
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The Renewable<br />
<strong>Energy</strong> Review<br />
In May 2011, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) launched a<br />
Renewable <strong>Energy</strong> Review, where it looked at the scope to increase<br />
ambition for <strong>renewable</strong> energy 8 . Its final report recommended<br />
that, by 2030, <strong>electricity</strong> should come from approximately 40%<br />
<strong>renewable</strong>s, 40% nuclear, 15% CCS and up to 10% unabated gas.<br />
This mix was based on the assumption that nuclear is the most cost<br />
effective low carbon technology. However, the CCC suggested that<br />
up to 65% <strong>renewable</strong> <strong>electricity</strong> by 2030 is technically feasible.<br />
The GL GH analysis supports the conclusion that 65% <strong>renewable</strong>s<br />
by 2030 is possible. In fact, the GL GH stretch (C) scenarios<br />
s<strong>how</strong> that, in the right economic conditions, even higher levels of<br />
<strong>renewable</strong>s (almost 90%) are possible by 2030. <strong>WWF</strong> is concerned<br />
about the CCC’s support for nuclear on both sustainability and<br />
cost grounds. There have been signifi<strong>can</strong>t delays and massive<br />
cost overruns on the two new EPR reactors currently being built<br />
in Europe. It is by no means certain that nuclear will be<br />
cheaper than <strong>renewable</strong>s, particularly as <strong>renewable</strong><br />
technologies move towards maturity and become less<br />
expensive. Further concerns on the cost of nuclear are set out in<br />
chapter two of this report.
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