Bioenergy Strategy Caroline Season 10 th July 2012 Agenda The UK - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Bioenergy Strategy

Caroline Season 10th July 2012

• The UK situation
• Achieving a 15% renewables target – role for biomass
• Approach to developing the Bioenergy Strategy
• 4 Principles for Bioenergy Policy
• Feedstock supplies
• Identifying the low-risk pathways
• Heat and electricity deployment analysis
• Priority actions

Agenda

The UK situation

• 61 million people and growing
• 244K sq km – under ½ size of France
• 250 people per sq km
• 76% of farmland & 12% forest cover
• 1990 – UK energy market privatised
• ‘Dash for gas’ decarbonises the UK

electricity supply to 430 kg CO2/MWh

• >80% use gas from UK grid for heating
• UK achieves large carbon reductions

with a highly centralised energy supply but low renewables (under 2% of energy)

• But declining North Sea output means
• il/gas imports are increasing
• And many of our coal power stations are

due to close by 2015 – so energy security issues

EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED)

Technology breakdown (TWh) for central deployment view in 2020

Central Range for 2020 (TWh)

Onshore Wind

24-32

Offshore Wind

33-58

Biomass Electricity

32-50

Marine & Tidal

1

Biomass Heat (Comm./Indust.)

36-50

Air/Ground Source Heat Pumps

16-22

Renewable Transport

Up to 48

Others (inc. hydro, solar & domestic heat)

14

Estimates 15% target

234

Source: UK Renewable Energy Roadmap (July 2011)

Our approach to the Bioenergy Strategy’s development

• Bioenergy: only renewable energy source that requires ongoing use of

fuel with a cost to supply

• Could deliver over half the renewables target in 2020
• Many opportunities and benefits but also significant risks
• Operates in a hugely complex policy landscape – energy security,

carbon goals, renewables target, heat, power, transport, forestry & timber, food & farming, waste, air quality, rural development, impacts

• n other biomass users, new green jobs across the supply-chain etc...
• Aim is to set a collective HMG framework that helps Government and

industry navigate, securing the benefits and minimising risks . (No new policies in itself!)

• Resulting Strategy* launched in April, available from www.decc.gov.uk

*www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/meeting_energy/bioenergy/strategy/strategy.aspx

Framing the issues and analysis A framework of principles for policymakers Applying the principles to bioenergy resource supplies Applying the principles to demand pathways Identifying the low risk and “hedging” pathways

The Strategy’s 4 Principles

• 1. Deliver genuine carbon reductions that help meet UK carbon

emissions objectives to 2050 and beyond.

• 2. Make a cost effective contribution to UK carbon emission
• bjectives in the context of overall energy goals.
• 3. Maximise the overall benefits and minimise costs (quantifiable and

non-quantifiable) across the economy.

• 4. Assess and respond to the impacts of this increased

deployment on other areas, such as food security and biodiversity

Range of domestic and imported biomass scenarios (TWh) 2020-2050

DECC analysis based on AEA Biomass resource model. 15% renewables = 234 TWh in 2020

The 4 Low Risk Pathways

• 1. Generation of heat & electricity through use of wastes and

combined heat and power (CHP) processes

• 2. Use of biomass to provide low carbon heat for buildings and

industry (process heating)

• 3. Use of biomass as a transitional fuel to reduce carbon

emissions from current coal power generation

• 4. Use of crop-derived biofuels for road transport if sustainability

issues can be addressed and development of advanced biofuels in medium to longer-term

Deployment analysis – Electricity

Deployment analysis – Heat

The 4 Priority Actions

• 1. Boosting sustainable feedstock supplies UK & imports

e.g. FC Woodfuel Implementation Plan

• 2. Getting sustainability safeguards in place

e.g. RO & RHI sustainability criteria, EU ILUC decisions

• 3. Promoting the low risk pathways

e.g. forthcoming RO banding review decisions

• 4. Monitoring Impacts

e.g. RO and RHI sustainability reporting

Bioenergy Strategy

Caroline Season, DECC Bioenergy Policy caroline.season@decc.gsi.gov.uk 10th July 2012