13th October, 2009 - Posted by admin - Comments Off In a speech
to the Overseas Development Institute in June, Lord Turner,
chair of the Climate Change Committe, said: …we can pretty much
totally decarbonise our electricity generation. UK electricity
generation currently puts out approx 550gm of CO2 per KW hour …
we believe it’s possible to get to a low of 100g/KW hour by
2030. And 10-20g/ KW hour by 2050. That’s important not only to
take the CO2 out of electricity generation, but once we’ve done
that it’s likely we can apply electricity to a wider set of
economic activities- largely electrfying the light end of the
service transport – cars- and putting electric heating back into
our houses, having spent the last 30 years taking it out. That
means removing your gas central heating … and your gas cooker.
Listen to Lord Turner’s speech to the Overseas Development
Institute on 03 June 2009 here: ODI Public Lecture: “UK leading
the way: Moving forward in international climate change policy”