Conclusions Aim of this presentation is to address comments such as:
“To balance wind generation, we need to store electricity by pumped storage or similar” Store natural gas and use with flexible CCGT “Natural gas can have no role in electricity generation” It is the main long term strategic partner for intermittent wind and we can make it renewably • The combination of flexible CCGT and Shallow Salt storage provides the lowest energy (and hence lowest CO2) way to balance electricity supply and demand • The EMR process should send the appropriate signals to ensure that such Shallow Salt is developed by 2020 in order to provide this capability • If there is every surplus wind/nuclear/solar etc above what the storageCCGT combination can handle, best option likely to be to make the excess electricity into CH4 and distribute via gas grid