ETI Insights Report - HGVs and their role in a Future Energy System

Abstract:

By 2050 the UK energy system, including transport, will need to look significantly different to today if the UK is to meet its 2050 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) target. The Energy Technologies Institute’s (ETI) Heavy Duty Vehicle (HDV) programme aims to challenge where heavy-duty transport, and the Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) sector in particular, can help the UK meet its climate change targets. This report sets out to provide an holistic view, considering the HGV sector in context with the other parts of the energy system that also have to decarbonise if the UK is to meet its climate change targets. This report concludes that the requirement to decarbonise the UK energy system to achieve or exceed the 80% GHG reduction targets requires all energy system sectors to decarbonise at an expense which is much more than a simple turnover of assets, effectively incurring a 'cost' to reduce CO2 emissions.

Publication Year:

2019

Publisher:

ETI

DOI:

No DOI minted

Author(s):

Joss, M.