Want to know more?
Find out more about how Energy Systems Catapult can help you and your teams
Get in touch
Want to know more?
Find out more about how Energy Systems Catapult can help you and your teams
Nuclear for Net Zero is a techno-economic assessment of the potential roles and contribution of nuclear energy in supporting a range of decarbonisation pathways modelled for the UK to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions targets by 2050.
As part of the Innovating to Net Zero programme, Energy Systems Catapult has carried out a series of deep dives into the technologies and behaviours potentially needed – such as nuclear, digitalisation and storage and flexibility.
Net Zero Energy: Nuclear for Net Zero
Nuclear for Net Zero used Energy Systems Catapult’s internationally peer-reviewed Energy System Modelling Environment. ESME is the UK’s leading techno-economic whole system model – which has been used by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), industry, academia and the UK Government. ESME is independent of sector interests and identifies cost-optimised decarbonisation pathways across the whole economy.
The underlying nuclear technology related data and assumptions incorporate the learning from engagement with the nuclear industry and the knowledge from the Energy Technology Institute’s portfolio of knowledge building projects within its nuclear power programme, now owned by Energy Systems Catapult.
The analysis in Nuclear for Net Zero has found there is a credible path available to realise significant nuclear cost reduction delivering potentially lower costs and risks associated with achieving UK Net Zero targets, including:
The potential policy approach for nuclear suggested by this new analysis, includes:
To achieve sufficient emission reductions for UK Net Zero, a whole systems approach is needed. The Innovating to Net Zero programme includes:
Energy Systems Catapult offers technical expertise and insights on Nuclear energy from a whole system perspective. Get in touch today.
Nuclear Energy for Net Zero
To download this file, we would be grateful if you could tell us a little about yourself.
We use this information for internal research purposes to help us better understand which energy sector stakeholders are interested in which areas of our work. We do not share your details with any third parties.
If you do not wish to complete the form, please email communications@es.catapult.org.uk to request a digital copy.
Independent and technology-agnostic, whole systems approach to accelerating clean innovations to market and tackling the hardest challenges on the way to Net Zero
Find out moreFind out more about how Energy Systems Catapult can help you and your teams
Find out more about how Energy Systems Catapult can help you and your teams