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2019 May 16 This is a UK trade and Investment Document Withdrawn UK Power Capabilities for a low carbon future 2019 May 16 Withdrawn With an annual turnover of $50 billion, the UK’s power sector employs 230,000 people and has exports2019 of more than $6 billion per year to over 100 countries. May The UK’s power sector plays a leading role in the global development of generative capacity, and is at the heart of the 16 massive international ‘push for power’. World electricity generation capacity is forecast to reach almost 34,000TWh by 2030, requiring an investment into new generative capacity of around 5,000GW. This will require thousands of new-build renewable, nuclear and thermal installations. Once operational, the new power stations will need ongoing maintenance and repair, asset management and upgrading. Transmission and distributions networks must be constructed to supply the consumers of this new generative capacity. Withdrawn The skills, experience and expertise of the UK-based power sector and its supply chain are geared to meeting this demand. 2019 May 16 Withdrawn Content Introduction 04-05 Renewables 06-09 Nuclear 10-13 Thermal 201914-17 Transmission and distribution 18-21 Asset management 22-25 Advisory services May 26-29 Education, training and research 30-33 UK Trade & Investment 16 34-35 Contacts 36 Withdrawn 04 UK Power | Capabilities for a low carbon future Introduction The UK power sector and its supply chain are perfectly positioned to support global investment in new generative capacity, new sources of energy and2019 the transmission and distribution networks to link these new power sources with consumers. May UK power companies already play a In parallel with the creation of new power Transmission and distribution networks major role in the global development and plants, there is an ongoing need for must be created, maintained and management of power and generative maintenance, repair and outage (MRO), upgraded to ensure energy consumers’ capacity. The UK’s power sector has an plus upgrade and decommissioning16 uninterrupted energy needs are met. annual turnover of $50 billion, of which of existing generative capacity. UK The emergence of potentially intermittent $6 billion a year is in exported goods and firms, and the extended power sector renewable energy sources, such as services to over 100 countries. supply chain, have pioneered new wind, solar, wave and tidal, as major methodologies that enable major works contributors to power grids has led to the Global generative capacity is forecast to on power plants to take place safely and creation of smart network and demand grow to 34,000TWh by 2030. To achieve without interrupting supply. Also, the management technologies to ensure this target, utilities and governments UK supply chain includes many original reliability of supply. must invest in creating new generative equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of capacity of more than 5,000GW over the Many UK companies have significant leading power equipment. next two decades. This huge increase in experience of asset managing, maintaining, capacity will require thousands of new- Pioneering carbon capture and storage upgrading and decommissioning power build renewable, nuclear and thermal technologies, including the development plants of various ages and designs, and installations. The UK is perfectly placed of novel cleaner fuels, are being developed this expertise is already wid ely exported. to meet this demand: its firms have built by UK researchers in academia, utilities As the birthplace of civil nuclear power, thermal power stations for over a century; and private firms. These technologies are and with many plants undergoing nuclear power plants for more than being created and tested to tackle the planned closure, the UK’s nuclear 50 years; andWithdrawn its renewable power challenges of scrubbing carbon dioxide decommissioning expertise is generation sector is world leading. from thermal power plant and other large exceptional. point source emissions, and evaluating the health and safety options of long-term underground storage. UK Power | Capabilities for a low carbon future 05 The Crown Estate, which administers the UK seabed, has awarded ten contracts to companies2019 to develop up to 1.2GW of wave and tidal power in Scotland. May Research, education and training are a UK Capability vital component of the UK power sector. UK energy companies are forecast to There are over a dozen internationally generate revenues of $300 billion by renowned UK universities with major 2030, employing one16 million workers. Many of the world’s research programmes into power and energy. The Energy Technology Institute The UK can offer world-class solutions largest energy (ETI) provides a vital link between across the entire power supply chain. companies participate research and business, and is forecast to UK capabilities cover renewable, invest $2 billion into energy and power nuclear and thermal power generation, in the UK-based Energy research over the ten years to 2017. transmission and distribution. The UK Technology Institute, is ideally positioned to help utilities Many global utility and engineering and governments meet the forecast which is forecast to groups have chosen to base their research 50 per cent increase in global energy and development facilities in the UK, allocate $2 billion demand by 2030. where they can access a huge pool of into research over the expertise and talent. The training and cleaner | greener | future-focused education sector features some of the ten years to 2017”. world’s most advanced training facilities, such as state-of-the-art simulators for training networkWithdrawn operators. 06 UK Power | Capabilities for a low carbon future Renewable energy The British Isles have wind, wave and tidal stream natural resources in abundance. This has led to the UK becoming a global centre for the development of world-leading renewable power generation capabilities. 2019 The UK is the windiest place in Europe The UK’s offshore engineering and Harnessing the power of and around its coastline has the world’s transmission expertise is internationally abundant natural resources best tidal and wave resources for the recognised as leading the world. Much generation of renewable energy. This offshore and subsea engineering, Onshore and offshore wind abundance of natural resources has transmission and distribution expertiseMay power coupled with wave and resulted in the UK becoming a global is based on the development of the UK’s tidal stream energy centre of excellence in the development world-class oil and gas industry. Now, the UK companies are world leaders and application of renewable power offshore, marine and subsea engineering in the implementation of existing generation technologies. By 2050, expertise of UK-based16 companies is wind and marine power generation investment into the existing and increasingly being applied to offshore technologies. They are also at the emerging renewable capabilities of wind and wave power generation. In forefront of research, development the supply chain of just six low-carbon 2008, the UK became the world’s biggest and exploitation of technology technologies is expected to create offshore wind power generator and in innovation in these sectors. The UK’s 175,000 jobs and generate $40 billion 2010 reached the milestone capacity of first onshore wind farm was built in a year. This will cover cutting-edge 1GW, the first wind energy market in the 1991, marking the beginning of a new research across sectors such as wind, world to do so. era of renewable power generation and marine, landfill gas and biomass, technological development. fuel cells, geothermal energy and hydroelectric power. Withdrawn The UK is forecast to capture just under a quarter of the global marine energy market, generating up to 68,000 jobs and $121 billion by 2050 – Carbon Trust Analysis UK Power | Capabilities for a low carbon future 07 The UK is the windiest place in Europe, with the largest single market and installed capacity of offshore wind energy, currently at 1.34GW. It also has the world’s best tidal and wave resources for the generation of renewable energy, and marine energy is forecast to power 15 million UK 2019homes by 2050”. Less than a decade later, the UK’s first offshore wind farm was commissioned Pipeline upgrade releases additional power in 2000. The UK’s offshore wind sector Hydropower upgrade delivers 40 per cent more power from has since become a world leader available resources in offshore wind power generation May technology. Moreover, UK-based projects now account for around a UK engineering company Mott When the new power house begins quarter of all wave projects and tidal MacDonald is leading design production in 2016 its contribution energy developments worldwide. of a US$700 million16 project to will grow to 28 per cent. Tarbela harness energy from water before Dam lies on the River Indus 50km One reason for the UK’s pre-eminence in it is released for irrigation. Careful from Lahore. It was completed in the renewables sector is the transfer of attention to the length, size and 1974 to hold back peak spring and knowledge and technology from the UK’s geometry of pipelines connecting to summertime water flow. It is released North Sea oil and gas industry. Having a new hydropower station at Tarbela at a constant rate throughout the developed innovative technology to Dam in Pakistan is enabling year via five tunnelled pipelines. extract oil and gas from the challenging 40 per cent more electricity to be With a hydraulic head of 130 million, environment of the North Sea, UK-based generated than originally envisaged. engineering contractors are now adapting there is huge energy potential in these technologies and innovating further. In 1992, a feasibility study the release of irrigation water and This is leading to the development concluded that 960MW could be generating capacity is already of near-shore, intermediate and generated.