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This document provides a road map for Photovoltaics (PV) research in the UK. It covers PV materials, cell and module design and manufacture and applications including BOS components. It is specific to the UK and reflects the strengths and weaknesses of the research base in the UK, although it is compatible with the roadmaps of other countries, particularly the one recently developed for the European Community. Its primary aim is to identify priority areas for UK PV research and assist the research funding agencies, particularly EPSRC, DTI and the Carbon Trust, in developing their research programmes, but it also considers the need to develop UK capacity, both in terms of expertise and research facilities.

Research cannot take place in a commercial vacuum, and although not its primary function, the road map will outline the context for PV research in the UK. The potential for market growth in the UK and more widely is outlined and the need for market stimulation in the UK discussed.

The road map reflects the outcomes of a two day PV road mapping exercise, organised by the UKERC Meeting Place, that took place in Edinburgh in July 2006, together with inputs from a number of the attendees over the following weeks and subsequently contributions from the wider researcher community in response to an initial draft. The road map has also been subject to international peer review, and we indebted to these reviewers for their input.

The civil nuclear roadmap provides a pathway for the different nuclear technologies and the government’s vision for the nuclear sector's future.

The UK led the world becoming the first country to split the atom. This was followed in 1956 by the world's first civil nuclear programme and a nuclear power station at Calder Hall, Windscale. At its peak in the mid-1990s, the UK generated approximately 13GW of power from nuclear energy, but this has slipped to only around 6GW today. This stands in stark contrast to our modern understanding of nuclear power as the only current form of reliable, secure, low carbon electricity which can be deployed at scale in the UK and as a key component in the drive for net zero. Accordingly, the government has taken the decision to reverse decades of under-investment and to recover the UK's global leadership in civil nuclear.

This Roadmap sets out the pathway to a UK resurgence in civil nuclear, covering both the long-term strategy and the near-term enabling policies we are pursuing. The aim is to demonstrate how nuclear power can and will contribute to the government's push to reach net zero by 2050 and, in so doing, to strengthen the UK's energy security. There is no credible pathway to net zero nor energy security without nuclear power and now is the time to act.

The purpose of this Roadmap is to send an unambiguous signal to the nuclear sector and investors, setting out how we expect UK nuclear deployment to happen, a timeline for the key decisions and actions, and clarity over the role government and industry should play in supporting and enabling this delivery. The challenges of net zero by 2050 and energy security demand urgent action, and the UK government stands ready to act.

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The clean flexibility roadmap outlines a vision for a cleaner, more flexible electricity system, which maximises the use of energy infrastructure to minimise energy bills for consumers.

Flexibility is essential for integrating the new home grown, renewable power we are building to reduce our reliance on expensive and volatile international fossil fuel markets. It is also crucial for delivering the government’s Clean Energy Superpower Mission to achieve clean power by 2030 and net zero by 2050.

Developed by the government, Ofgem and NESO, alongside energy industry stakeholders and consumer groups, the roadmap commits named organisations to specific, timebound actions to unlock flexible electricity capacity. It establishes an enduring governance framework to facilitate implementation, through tracking progress, holding action owners to account, and enabling further measures to be taken where required.

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This roadmap sets out how we expect the hydrogen production landscape to evolve towards 2035, and the key opportunities and challenges that we face.

We have published it in response to Chris Skidmore’s recommendation 12 in his Independent review of net zero, that the government should develop an ambitious and pragmatic 10 year delivery roadmap for the scaling up of hydrogen production.

Any enquiries regarding this publication should be sent to us at: hydrogenhub@energysecurity.gov.uk.

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This Marine Energy Technology Roadmap, jointly developed by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) and the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) represents a major update to the ETI/UKERC 2010 Marine Energy Technology Roadmap, a document created to identify and prioritise the key technology and deployment issues faced by the marine renewable energy sector in the UK. This update has primarily been created to reflect the changes and advancements within the marine energy sector that have taken place since 2010, but it also recognises the engineering challenges that remain and that must be overcome to enable the industry to progress rapidly to early array deployments.

The Solar Roadmap, produced through collaboration with industry, presents a comprehensive strategy and clear plan of action to achieve the significant increase in solar deployment needed to support the delivery of clean power by 2030, as set out in the government’s Clean Power Action Plan.

The Roadmap details over 70 actions across a variety of areas including:

• Streamlining the grid connection process for solar
• Making the solar supply chain resilient, diverse and sustainable
• Demonstrating the government’s commitment to eradicate the abhorrent practices of modern slavery and forced labour
• Proposals for mandatory community benefit funds for local areas provided by developers, to ensure communities enjoy the benefits of hosting new infrastructure

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This annex provides more detail on the methodology and sources underpinning the analysis presented in the Solar Roadmap. This is primarily contained in Part 1, Chapter 2 - the Deployment Scenarios chapter. This includes the scenarios themselves, alongside other estimates such as homes powered, jobs-supported and land use estimates.

This is an appendix to the Solar Roadmap

Case studies on wider benefits of solar to groups across society, including for students and community organisations

This roadmap addresses a technology which decarbonises emissions from large point sources, with a focus upon electricity supply: Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS). CCS reduces CO2 emissions through the 'chemical capture' of CO2 at central electricity plant (powered by coal or gas) with subsequent transport of CO2 to a geological storage site. The technology is endorsed by the IPCC and UK government as a key mitigation option (IPCC, 2007; POST, 2005). UK support for CCS was announced in the 2007 Budget through 'a competition to develop the UK's first fullscale demonstration of carbon capture and storage' (HM Treasury, 2007), which will operate from November 2007. There are currently more than nine proposals in the UK for full-scale CCS power plant proposing diverse capture options and storage sites.

This document is a technology roadmap: it provides a guide for mobilising the wave and tidal energy community in the UK down a deployment pathway towards a target of achieving 2GW installed capacity by 2020.

The roadmap is aimed at providing a focused and coherent approach to technology development in the marine sector, whilst taking into account the needs of other stakeholders. The successful implementation of the technology roadmap depends upon a number of complex interactions between commercial, political and technical aspects.

Although this roadmap is technically focused it also considers policy, environmental and commercialisation aspects of the marine energy sector, in order to display and put in context these wider influences.

The roadmap is aimed at technology developers, project developers, policy makers, government bodies, investors (public and private)