Do we need a strategic reserve for gas? With Adam Bell

The current approach to funding gas plants is breaking, but what should replace it? And when?

For a long time, gas has been the backbone of the energy system. That's changing rapidly as renewables become cheaper and more widely deployed, but removing gas completely from the energy system is not an easy task.

Despite becoming less important, a small amount of it is likely to linger on the system for a while yet. Without a plan to manage its decline, this could come at considerable cost to the consumer.

This week Adam Bell (Director of Policy at Stonehaven) joins Sulaiman Ilyas-Jarrett (former UK government advisor and Policy Fellow at the University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy) for a discussion on the future of gas generation in the UK.

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Energy | electricity| gas | AI | generation | security | renewables