Overview: High-Quality Energy for High-Quality Growth: China’s energy Revolution in the New Era
Special Report 1: A study of China’s Energy Supply Revolution
Special Report 2: Research on China’s Energy Demand Revolution
Special Report 3: A Study of China’s Technology Revolution
Special Report 4: China’s energy System Revolution
Special Report 5: International Energy Cooperation and Governance


Decarbonising Energy : The Pathway to Net Zero

I. Introduction

II. The global energy triumvirate: greenhouse gas emissions, global warming and green energy
1. Global energy trends – overview
2. Green shoots still to bud: carbon far from dated
3. Global green energy: an investment success story?
4. Renewable technology: now cheaper and more efficient
5. Global wrap-up

III. How green is UK energy?
1. UK energy trends – overview
2. Energy versus electricity
3. The relationship between capacity and electricity generated in the UK

IV. UK policy and the road to Net Zero
1. UK energy policy
2. Policy development-overview
3. The emergence of Net zero
4. The Committee on Climate Change’s 2019 Progress Report
5. Future energy scenarios 2019: Net Zero aspects
6. Delivering Net Zero

V. Generation technologies: going from black to grey
1. Overview
2. Coal-fired generation
3. Nuclear generation
4. Natural gas-fired generation

VI. Generation technologies: going from grey to green
1. Overview
2. Solar photovoltaic (PV)
3. Wind power

VII. Net Zero and future technologies
1. Overview
2. Energy storage
3. Floating wind power
4. Hydrogen: to the rescue?
5. Carbon capture technology
6. Negative emissions
7. Advanced nuclear technologies

VIII.The UK’s electricity network: electrons in balance
1. Overview
2. The electricity system: what it is and how it works
3. Balancing the electricity system: the balancing mechanism (BM) and ancillary services

IX. Looking forward