White Paper 3: A greener gas grid: What are the options?
There are an estimated 2.8 million km of gas transport pipelines globally supplying energy for heating and cooking.
The Sustainable Gas Institute’s third White Paper review evaluates the overall potential for decarbonising the gas network, including the use of biomethane and hydrogen in existing gas infrastructure.
It examines the options for creating low carbon gas networks, exploring the technical issues as well as the decarbonisation potential and costs associated with each option.
Dissemination
Please cite the paper as: Speirs, J., Balcombe, P., Johnson, E., Martin, J., Brandon, N., Hawkes, A. (2017). A Greener Gas Grid: What are the options?, Sustainable Gas Institute, Imperial College London.
Dissemination
Blogs
12/10/16 – How can we make the gas grid greener? a blog post by Erin Johnson for the Grantham Institute blog
Journal papers
P. Balcombe, J. Speirs, E. Johnson, J. Martin, N. Brandon, A. Hawkes, The carbon credentials of hydrogen gas networks and supply chains, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 91, August 2018, Pages 1077-1088
Launch Event
The evening commenced with a welcome by the Institute’s Director, Professor Nigel Brandon followed by a 30-minute overview of the report from the lead author, Dr. Jamie Speirs.
The panel members include:-
· Professor Jim Watson, Research Director, UK Energy Research Centre
· Dan Sadler, Project Manager of the H21 Leeds City Gate team
· Dr David Joffe, Team leader at the UK Committee on Climate Change
Presentations/Conferences
2018
09/01/18 – Invited to speak at Pacific Coast Collaborative, Seattle
19/01/18 – invited to speak at World Bank Asia Gas Workshop, Singapore
2017
20/07/17 – A greener gas grid: What are the options? – launch event
13/09/17 – Attended The UK Committee on Climate Change (the CCC) roundtable workshop to help shape their call for a future gas research call.
02/11/17 – Invited to participate in AScEnD workshop in Edinburgh.
06/12/17 – Presenting at Energy Networks Association conference in Telford
04/17 – Invited to UK Energy Research Centre Consultation for future white paper topics
06/17 – Invited to present at UK/EU consultancy E3G workshop in Brussels on future of EU gas system
06/17 – Attended telecon with Malcom Graham (Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST)) to help inform POST Note on gas network decarbonisation.
07/17 – Institute of Gas Engineers and Managers (IGEM) conference, July 2017.
12/17 – Attended Carbon Connect round table steering group for the second paper in their Future of Gas series, attended by Alan Whitehead MP, James Heappey MP and Alistair Carmichael MP.
2016
27/09/16 – Policy facing research through Systematic Review and primary analysis – Sustainable Gas Research & Innovation Conference 2016
Press
20 July 2017 – Can the UK’s gas grid go green? New white paper explores options – Phys.org
20 July 2017 – Can the UK’s gas grid go green? New white paper explores options – Imperial College website
21st July 2017 – UK green gas ‘could boost decarbonisation goals’ – EnergyLive.news
14th Aug 2017 – Energy transition? Let’s not forget the option of a Green Gas Grid – EnergyPost Weekly
16th Aug 2017 – A greener gas grid: 6 key findings – Gastech Insights (archived)
Slides
The presentation slides can be found on Slideshare.
