PROVISION OF ENERGY
ENERGY is essential to our daily lives and of energy, including:
supporting a successful economy, but
trianglert Policy measures to encourage low
providing secure, sustainable and affordable
carbon technologies, including renewables
supplies is increasingly challenging.
trianglert Clean coal projects, such as carbon
Globally demand for energy is growing –
capture and storage
and with it the need to reduce carbon
trianglert Demand management measures,
dioxide (CO2) emissions and tackle global
including a mandatory carbon reduction
climate change.
programme for businesses
In the UK, like many other European
countries, reserves of oil and gas are
We believe the energy mix should include
declining – increasing dependency on
a combination of low carbon technologies –
gas imports, mainly from Norway, Russia
including renewables, modern efficient
and Algeria.
thermal, with the potential for carbon
In the Energy White Paper, published in
capture, and nuclear.
May 2007, the UK Government set
For more information click here:
out its strategy for the provision http://www.scottishpower.com/Overviewa.htm
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