From Here to 2050: Low-Carbon Energy System Trajectories for the UK
| Dates: | 12 June 2013 |
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| Times: | 15:30 - 15:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Tyndall Manchester |
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| Who is it for: | Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public, University staff |
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| Speaker: | Prof Paul Ekins |
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Over the last eight years the UK MARKAL energy system model has been used to deliver insights into how a low-carbon energy system for the UK might develop and how it might look in 2050. This seminar will give an overview of four scenario sets from the model that was used for this purpose, carried out by different modelling teams at different times with changes in assumptions. The results that emerge are fascinating in both their differences and their similarities, the former showing some of the key uncertainties in how the UK energy system might develop, and the latter giving more robust insights into some of the things that will need to happen if the UK's carbon targets are to be met. The seminar will explore these necessary developments and speculate about the policies that might be needed to bring them about.
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George Begg Building
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