electricity storage, electricity demand, under sea transport of electricity
Long-term electricity supply and issues of storage and demand management explored
2 December 2014
Could storage hold the key to long-term electricity supply? Is under-sea transport of electricity between the UK and other countries reliable? What role can demand management play in providing resilience?
These are some of the questions to be put to a range of experts on energy issues by the Lords Science and Technology Committee on Tuesday 2 December.
- Parliament TV: The resilience of electricity infrastructure
- Inquiry: The resilience of electricity infrastructure
- Science and Technology Committee (Lords)
Background
Their inquiry examining the resilience of the electricity system continues with a close look at storage, interconnection and demand side response.
Witnesses
Tuesday 2 December, Committee Room 4, Palace of Westminster
At 10.40am:
- Anthony Price, Director, Electricity Storage Network;
- Dr Charlotte Ramsay, Project Director for NSN Link, National Grid; and
- Professor Goran Strbac, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London
At 11.40am:
- Professor Gordon Walker, Co-Director, The DEMAND Centre;
- Dr Howard Porter, CEO, BEAMA; and
- Michael Ware, Partner for New Energy and Environment, BDO LLP
Questions
Questions they may be asked will include:
- How much of a role does electricity storage play in balancing the electricity system?
- What are the prospects for the future of large scale energy storage?
- What are the UK’s plans for interconnection, enabling energy to flow between the UK and other countries?
- How reliable will interconnection be in the future?
- Have we been focussing on the supply of electricity at the expense of demand?
- How is demand being managed at the moment?
- How effectively could demand be managed in an increasingly de-carbonised world?
- As electricity systems become increasingly ‘smarter’, does this increase the risks from cyber-attack?