Talk:UK Business Council for Sustainable Energy
Our supporters
Business supporters of the UKBCSE include:
Members Centrica EDF Energy E.ON UK National Grid plc RWE npower Scottish Power Scottish and Southern Energy United Utilities
Strategic partners Air Products CE Electric International Power RES Group Shell
If you are interested in becoming involved in the work of the UKBCSE, then please contact us at info@bcse.org.uk
Members
Centrica Centrica is a top 30 FTSE100 company with growing energy businesses in the UK, North America and Europe.
Centrica secures and supplies gas and electricity for millions of homes and businesses and offers a distinctive range of home energy solutions and low-carbon products and services.
Centrica is the largest energy supplier in the UK with British Gas Residential supplying over 16 million customers. British Gas Services is the largest central heating and gas appliance installation company in the UK, directly employing more than 9,000 engineers.
Centrica is one of the UK’s largest producers and suppliers of wind-based energy and in April 2007 they set up British Gas New Energy with a focus on low-carbon products and services.
EDF Energy
EDF Energy is one of the largest energy companies in the UK supplying around 5.1 million customers. EDF Energy is the largest electricity supplier for London, the south east and the south west of England.
EDF Energy is currently undertaking a five-year investment programme to improve the efficiency and to reduce CO2 emissions at its two coal-fired power stations. Work started in summer 2006 to fit new high-pressure steam turbines. This £40 million programme is estimated to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gas emissions by 2.5%, saving the equivalent of five million tonnes of CO2 in the period to 2020.
During 2006 EDF Energy, together with the London Climate Change Agency, formed an energy services company which will help develop decentralised low-carbon energy projects in the capital. The new company will finance, build and operate local energy systems for new and existing building developments. A significant project pipeline has been established which should result in substantial CO2 emissions reductions of more than one million tonnes in the next decade.
E.ON UK
E.ON UK is one of the UK’s leading integrated power and gas companies – generating and distributing electricity, and retailing power and gas – and is part of the E.ON group, the world's largest investor-owned power and gas company.
E.ON UK employs almost 13,000 people and supply energy to around six million homes and businesses nationwide
National Grid plc
National Grid plc is an international energy delivery business, whose principal activities are in the regulated electricity and gas industries. In the UK it owns and operates the high-voltage electricity transmission network in England and Wales, and Britain's natural gas transportation system. In the US it is one of the top ten electricity companies, with the largest electricity transmission and distribution network in the New England/New York region. In the US National Grid has a long history of implementing award winning energy efficiency programmes.
RWE npower
RWE npower is a leading integrated UK energy company. It generates electricity from a range of flexible plant and is a market leader in renewable energy development through its offshore and onshore wind, hydro and co-firing business, npower renewables. RWE npower is one of the UK's largest energy suppliers, supplying gas, electricity and related services to 6.3 million customers through its retail business npower. RWE npower is also committed to developing innovative products, which allow its customers to make sustainable energy choices, such as the domestic green energy product, npower Juice. npower one, the operations and engineering arm, has expertise in improving power station reliability, efficiency and environmental management. It also provides support to RWE npower's UK generation capacity of over 8,000 MW of coal, gas and oil power stations, as well as renewable and cogeneration plant.
As well as being a leading energy retailer, we are one of the UK’s leading generators of electricity.
We operate around 8,000MW of low cost coal-, oil- and gas-fired power stations, along with wind, hydro and cogeneration plants.
RWE npower recognises that its activities touch many aspects of people lives and is committed to carrying out its business with a sense of responsibility for the environment, its customers and for the communities in which it works. Where appropriate RWE npower seek to work in partnership to find innovative and practical solutions to social and environmental challenges, through for example its work with the UK Business Council for Sustainable Energy.
Scottish Power
Scottish Power plc is an international energy business listed on both the London and New York Stock Exchanges. The company's annual turnover in the year to 31 March 2004 was £5,797 million/$10,666 million. Through its operating subsidiaries, it provides in excess of 5.8 million electricity or gas services to homes and businesses in the western US and across the UK. It generates electricity, operates and maintains large power delivery networks and provides a full range of energy supply services, including metering, billing and call centre support. In the US, Scottish Power's activities also extend to coal mining and gas storage/hub services, and, in the UK, the supply of gas to its customers.
http://www.scottishpower.plc.uk
Scottish and Southern Energy
Scottish and Southern Energy is one of the UK's largest energy companies and is involved in the generation, transmission, distribution and supply of electricity and the supply and storage of gas. Its portfolio of gas-fired power stations is the most efficient among major UK generators and it is the largest generator of electricity from renewable sources in the UK.
http://www.scottish-southern.co.uk/
United Utilities
The multi-utility employs more than 17,000 people across the world and is one of the UK's top 100 companies.
Its Green Energy business is one of the country's largest generators of renewable energy, operating more than 40 projects including hydro-electric, landfill and mine gas generation schemes - generating enough electricity to power 134,000 homes. The company is also developing significant on-shore and offshore wind farms in England, Wales and Scotland.
http://www.unitedutilities.com
Strategic partners
Air Products
Air Products serves customers in industrial, energy, technology and healthcare markets worldwide with a unique portfolio of atmospheric gases, process and specialty gases, performance materials, and equipment and services. Air Products is the world’s leading provider of hydrogen fuel and dispensing infrastructure.
www.airproducts.co.uk
CE Electric UK
CE Electric UK, through its subsidiaries Northern Electric Distribution and Yorkshire Electricity Distribution, delivers electricity to 3.6 million customers throughout the North East, Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire. Whilst as a major energy company it has a keen interest in the sustainable future of the national energy market, it has a particular interest in the development of distributed generation throughout its area of operation.
International Power
International Power is a growing, independent power generation company with interests in 40 power stations and some closely linked businesses around the world.
RES Group
RES is a driving force in the global sustainable energy market, turning pioneering thinking and expertise into commercial success. From large-scale grid-connected wind farms to on-site renewable heating, power and cooling systems, we are dedicated to the provision of reliable, low-carbon energy solutions. Our 25 years of experience in the industry and enviable track record in project delivery has given RES a reputation for quality that is second to none.
www.res-group.com
Shell
Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemicals companies, operating in more than 145 countries. Most people know them for their service stations and for exploring and producing oil and natural gas. But they deliver a much wider range of energy solutions and petrochemicals to customers, including transporting and trading oil and gas, marketing natural gas, producing and selling fuel for ships and planes, generating electricity and providing energy efficiency advice.
They also produce and sell petrochemical building blocks to industrial customers globally. These go into plastics, coatings and detergents; used to make many modern products like fibres and textiles, insulation, medical equipment and components for lighter, efficient vehicles. Renewables and Shell Hydrogen are small, but fast-growing businesses investing in making renewable and lower-carbon energy sources competitive for large-scale use. Shell companies do not produce coal or nuclear power.
Shell is committed to contributing to sustainable development and to delivering energy in a cleaner way, by marketing a range of cleaner conventional fuels and clean alternatives such as LPG. Shell are also developing Gas to Liquids and hydrogen and fuel cell technology for future use in power generation and automotive applications.
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'Energy companies are keen to play their part in delivering low carbon energy supplies, including renewables, and are committed to working with Government and others to ensure that the right support mechanisms are in place, and that key barriers are addressed. ' from UKBCSE report on UK renewables target implications.
'The extent to which energy efficiency policies are implemented in the UK will have a significant impact on the amount of renewable energy that will be needed to meet the target. It is worth noting that the biggest opportunity for energy efficiency is in reducing heat consumption, and is less likely to impact on future demand for electricity. ' page 7. from full report as above.
'This paper provides a very high level assessment of the implications of delivering the renewable energy target in the UK. We have identified priority areas basic to delivery of the 15% renewable energy target, and on this basis we would hope to see the consultation on the Renewable Energy Strategy give full consideration to the following areas:
!"Longer-term development needs for supporting network infrastructure o Transmission o Distribution !"Ensuring the supply chain can deliver !"Ensuring sufficient skills !"Managing and communicating public acceptance of a significant increase of renewables !"The technology, scale and location of peaking plant !"The role of demand side management and storage to balance an increased proportion of intermittent generation !"The extent to which trading between Member States will be facilitated !"The use of renewable electricity for heat and transport !"The materiality of the of cost of implementing the renewable energy target for consumers !"The uncertainties around the cost, availability and sustainability of biofuels, and how any shortfall in the biofuels area would be made up across the other sectors !"The range of energy demand projection scenarios looking forward, and the implications for the renewable energy targets, including possible trends for an increased use of electricity for heating and transport ' p.21 from same report.
