{"id":2067,"date":"2010-03-18T14:58:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T14:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2013-06-20T14:59:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T14:59:19","slug":"prof-abubakr-bahaj-was-the-lead-academic-on-the-ice-report-offshore-renewables-unlocking-the-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/prof-abubakr-bahaj-was-the-lead-academic-on-the-ice-report-offshore-renewables-unlocking-the-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof AbuBakr Bahaj was the Lead Academic on the ICE Report \u2018Offshore Renewables: Unlocking the Potential\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2068\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/files\/2013\/06\/picto_offshore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2068\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2068\" title=\"ICE Report \u2013 Offshore Renewables\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/files\/2013\/06\/picto_offshore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ICE Report \u2013 Offshore Renewables<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The report responds to the UK electricity sector\u2019s security of supply crisis, as one third (30GW) of UK\u2019s power plants are due to close by 2025 coupled with the need to urgently decarbonise our energy supply to meet pressing environmental targets.<\/p>\n<p>ICE\u2019s report says the rapid up-scaling of offshore renewable resources, on a similar scale to that experienced by the North Sea oil and gas sector in the 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s, could provide the solution.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Bahaj who heads the Energy and Climate Division within SCEE, looks beyond wind, surveying the progress in the infant tidal and wave energy sectors. He notes that \u201cthe UK possesses some of the richest wave, tidal and wind resources in the world, with the potential to provide a large proportion of the UK\u2019s current electricity demand as well as create a major new industrial sector, with significant export potential. The tidal resource around the UK waters contain a potential for 0.25 TW of power, which if one tenth was exploited, would equate to around half of the nation\u2019s current electricity consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report responds to the UK electricity sector\u2019s security of supply crisis, as one third (30GW) of UK\u2019s power plants are due to close by 2025 coupled with the need to urgently decarbonise our energy supply to meet pressing environmental targets. ICE\u2019s report says the rapid up-scaling of offshore renewable resources, on a similar scale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93264,"featured_media":2068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4217],"tags":[202],"class_list":["post-2067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-202"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2070,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/2070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/serg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}