Introduction The London Underground is one of the world’s oldest and most intensively used metro systems. Since its first line opened in 1863, it has evolved into a complex network carrying millio...

2024 Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station closes, marking the final use of coal power in Britain. 2019 More electricity is generated from...

In recent years, the idea of turning thousands of electric cars sitting idle on driveways into a vast, distributed energy storage system has captured the imagination of policymakers, energy compani...

Assumptions and simplifications The calculator above aims to help assess the running cost-saving potential of an EV. It makes various assumptions and simplifications to balance effort with accurac...

As Great Britain accelerates its transition away from fossil fuels, policymakers and engineers are increasingly asking how to deliver large-scale, reliable, low-carbon electricity in a system domin...

High-voltage direct current (HVDC) electricity transmission is a method of transporting large volumes of power, which is rapidly evolving in Great Britain (GB) due to changing factors such as geogr...

The concept of global warming due to greenhouse gases, catalysed by the industrial world, is not a new one. It was first proposed in 1824 by Joseph Fourier, where he established a link between gase...

Great Britain (GB) is expected to heavily decarbonise its electricity supply by 2030, as set out by the National Energy System Operator (NESO) in the Clean Power 2030 report. It is anticipated that...

Hydrogen is a highly combustible element which produces no harmful emissions when used as a fuel. It is the most abundant element in the universe; however, due to its extreme reactivity, it is ofte...

The concept of utilising heat pumps for heating has been around for hundreds of years, and yet, despite this, domestic heating has been dominated by fossil fuels. Figure 1 illustrates the makeup of...