The UK's transition to a clean energy system requires significant investment in renewables, grid upgrades, and maintaining gas backup capacity to meet net-zero targets by 2030.
Britain’s transition to a low-carbon energy system is fraught with challenges, the new state-owned grid operator has warned in a report. Massive investments in transmission and demand pattern changes are among these, the National Energy System Operator said in the document, released today, as well as keeping natural gas-fired power plants as backup reserves even after the transition targets have been hit.
The transition in line with government plans would require annual investments of some 40 billion pounds, or about $52 billion, with some of it going towards the construction of almost 2,700 miles of offshore cables and 620 miles of onshore cables, the NESO reported. Meanwhile, even as wind and solar expand, Britain will need to keep its gas-fired power plants as a backup for when those two do not generate enough.
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