Lecture
- Session
- 00:19 - 00:19
- Duration: 1 hr 30 mins
- Publication date: 19 Feb 2009
- Location: IETTV_Room, IETTV_Venue, London, United Kingdom
- Part of series The Clerk Maxwell Lecture Series, IET Prestige Lecture Series and Part of event Clerk Maxwell Prestige Lecture
About the session
The UK energy system is under increasing pressure and requires substantial upgrading and replacement to tackle the combined challenges of climate change (principally carbon dioxide emissions), energy affordability and security of supply. Addressing these challenges requires changes to the UK power generation, transmission and distribution systems and, critically, demands that we ensure that every unit of energy is used as efficiently as possible and forms part of a long-term sustainable system. We will only properly achieve this if all sectors are involved - power, heat, transport and their supporting infrastructures.