Energy Seminar – Week 4: Royal Society Report on Energy Storage
Electricity will meet an increasing fraction of the world’s growing energy needs as fossil fuels are phased out. In Great Britain most will be provided by wind and solar. To match wind and solar, which are volatile, with demand, which is variable, they must be complemented by using wind and solar generated electricity that has been stored when there is an excess, and/or supply from large-scale flexible low-carbon sources, of which there are very few. Chris’s talk will describe the findings of a study (which can be found at royalsociety.org/electricity-storage) of options that can provide reliable electricity when wind and solar generation is unable to meet demand directly (with or without steady baseload supply). The long-term variability of wind speeds requires some very long-term large-scale storage, which would best be provided by hydrogen. The cost appears to be acceptable, but new market mechanisms will be needed to attract the investment that will be needed.
Date: 31 October 2023, 17:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Place Suite, School of Geography
Speaker: Chris Llewellyn-Smith (University of Oxford)
Organising department: Environmental Change Institute
Organisers: Karen Parry (Coordinator, Oxford Energy Network), Robin Morris (Oxford Energy Convenor)
Organiser contact email address: info@energy.ox.ac.uk
Host: Robin Morris (Oxford Energy Convenor)
Part of: Oxford Energy Seminars 2023-24
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5530d54a-2257-4a67-8d13-1bd74c582198@cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91
Audience: Public
Editor: Karen Parry