Download the report2.95MB This report sets out scenarios for the UK power sector in 2030 as an input to the Committee’s advice on the fifth carbon budget. These scenarios are not intended to set out a prescriptive path. Instead, they provide a tool for the Committee to verify that its advice can be achieved with manageable impacts, in order to meet the criteria set out in the Climate Change Act, including competitiveness, affordability and energy security.
CCC ( CCC ) has released a report which sets out scenarios for the UK power sector in 2030 , based on the advice it presented to the government on the fifth carbon budget. The scenarios provide a tool for the CCC to show that their advice is competitive, affordable, and provides energy security, whilst ensuring that the UK 's statutory the next 15 years emissions target can be met. The report says that by the 2020s low-carbon sources of energy generation will become cost competitive with new gas-fired generation, adding pressure on the government to clarify controversial subsidy cuts in its clean energy policy. Over the next 15 years , the UK will need to add 2030 2030 of new power generation capacity to replace retiring coal or nuclear plants.