- The UK has agreed to an EU-wide target of 20% of renewable energy by 2020.
- The UK government’s target is to produce 15% of the UK’s energy from renewables by 2020, which is an almost ten-fold increase from 2008.
Those targets are challenging. And to meet global targets it has been said that worldwide by 2050 we may need to deploy 650,000 wind turbines, have 2 billion hybrid cars on the road, build 1000 new nuclear stations, and renovate over 300 million homes.
It sounds difficult, and it is, but it presents the exciting prospect of a whole new industrial base opening up.
The ETI believes that the future of safe, secure and sustainable energy lies in technological innovation. That’s why the Energy Technologies Institute represents one of the most important and influential developments in UK energy. By bringing together the expertise, efforts and investment of public and private sectors to focus on key energy challenges, we can achieve monumental step changes on a viable commercial scale.
The Energy White Paper to the right of this page addresses the challenges outlined above.
The ETI accelerates projects that aim to meet the 2020 targets: we bring together the best, worldwide - academics, systems integrators, manufacturers – to work collaboratively on energy projects, and take them to full system demonstration so that they are ready for market. We provide project teams with funds (up to 100%) and access to resources. For example our industrial partners could provide facilities for the kind of large-scale testing, demonstration and manufacturing facilities that new technologies might need.