renewable energy
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- How can international governance, emerging technologies (including climate tech) and digital agreements be used to achieve Net Zero and support environmental sustainability?
- How many energy production sites will exist and what is the optimum scale they will operate at?
- How can DWP best contribute to net zero by driving reductions in emissions through work and pensions policies, estates and operations?
- Are there health and safety challenges related to maintenance and repair of aging low carbon energy infrastructure, such as offshore wind turbines?
- Are there risks associated with this new energy landscape and how could they be best controlled? Do co-located technologies pose new hazards and risks? What new hazards arise from how new energy systems are integrated and controlled?
- What are the current and future clean maritime growth opportunities for the UK (including green jobs)? What is the expected growth for green shipping in the UK and what are the environmental and economic implications?
- What are the positive and negative environmental impacts of increasing renewable energy production (wind, solar, geothermal, and so on) and other actions taken to decarbonise the economy?
- What skills are needed to implement improvements in creative industries environmental impact and to meet Net Zero targets? What are the best mechanisms for developing these skills in the workforce?
- What future electric vehicle charging technology will be available? What are the advantages and disadvantages? And what groups of electric vehicle users will it mostly benefit?
- How can we balance different interests at local and national levels, to provide the resources we need, reduce degradation of natural capital and improve the state of the environment?
- How can we best model and understand the impacts on a global level of environmental policy actions?
- With the transformation of global energy, the development of hybrid energy system of nuclear energy and other clean energy is a new research direction.
- Wood is one of the key renewable resources due to its excellent structure and physical properties.
- Alternative forms of heat, such as ground and air, and thermal recycling, are important to develop in order to reduce energy usage.
- With increasing focus on addressing fossil fuel shortage and harmful automotive emissions, there has been a growing interest in hybrid electric and pure electric vehicles.
- Diesel engines are among the most effective engines in the world, however they are also recognized for their traditional smoke and high level of nitrous oxides, Nox, emissions.
- About 39% of total energy in the United States is consumed in residential and commercial buildings and energy usage must be reduced.
- Small hydro power is considered environment friendly and sustainable as compared to other renewable sources of energy, but work must be done to optimise its outputs.
- Lower sulphur coal and desulfurization systems are used in coal-fired power plants to reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), but their by-products also need to be considered.
- The use of biomass for power generation is increasingly common. However, one of the most important problems when using biomass is the amount of waste produced in the combustion process such as ash, which must be transported to landfills for deposition.
- The high energy demand and the threat of climate change have led to a remarkable development of renewable energies, initially through technologies applied to the terrestrial environment and, recently, through the awakening of marine renewable energies.
- The recent transition towards sustainable energy resources, aiming for the decarbonisation of the electrical power sector has gained global and regional importance.
- Improving the energy efficiency of wind turbines and capacity factor of wind farms is necessary to help replace fossil fuel sources with renewables.
- The large-scale generation of electric power using solar energy stimulates the development of novel technologies by researchers with ultimate resource qualities.
- With the increasing penetration of wind power, reliable and cost-effective wind energy production is of more and more importance.
- Frequent escalations in fuel costs, environmental concerns, and the depletion of non-renewable fuel reserves have driven the power industry to significant utilisation of renewable energy resources.
- What role does HSE have in assuring the trust of communities in new and emerging technologies in the energy transition?
- What are the broader environmental consequences of changes to the housing and planning system, and what is needed to support a lower-carbon future?
- What sustainable vehicle alternatives can policing turn to that are capable of meeting requirements for performance and weight?
- Is there opportunity to transfer knowledge and skills from hydrocarbon technologies to operators of new and emerging technologies in the energy transition?
- What are the environmental effects of emerging technologies?
- How can we best support the scale up of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) industry and DfT’s chosen strategic ambitions for the UK SAF sector?
- How do we maximise the various benefits of nature-based solutions, and address any trade-offs and associated risks, through our plans for nature recovery, afforestation, peatland restoration, natural flood management, and improved water quality?
- How can we develop pathways towards net zero that are socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable? What is the range of viable solutions, and what are the associated co-benefits and trade-offs? This includes developing spatially explicit models and tools to inform decisions at the landscape level, including prioritisation of conflicting land use demands
- Is there opportunity to transfer knowledge and skills from experienced operators of hydrocarbon sites to a new generation of plant operators assuming responsibility in the energy transition?
- What initiatives and activities work in reducing the sector’s environmental and climate impacts?
- How can the role of human factors in the safe and effective operation of a new energy system be effectively understood?
- Develop innovative and improved abatement technologies for air pollutant emissions and noise generation across all sectors and sources
- How can the UK optimise sustainable growth of biomass for use in power generation (bioenergy) and, with appropriate storage, for removal of atmospheric CO2? How can the negative environmental consequences from biomass production and use (on soil quality, water quality, air quality, and biodiversity) be minimised? What’s the full life cycle analysis for different feedstock? What’s the scalability of different feedstocks within sustainable limits?
- Where do interactions exist between climate adaptation in transport infrastructure and other net zero or natural environment policies? Are there any co-benefits/trade-offs and how can we implement solutions that deliver on all these priorities?
- How can policing establish sustainable science and technology development and procurement practices that contribute to policing’s Net Zero commitments?
- How do low or no emission power methods for 4G mobile masts, such as wind, solar, hydrogen, and other methods, compare to diesel generation power in terms of ;(i) viability, (ii) reliability, (iii) durability, (iv) cost to operate?
- What are the appropriate controls and mitigations that need to be built into new carbon capture infrastructure?
- How will consumer preference and demand for sustainable modes and products develop?