Contents
Terms of Reference
Summary
Chapter 1: Introduction
The Electricity System
Figure 1: The Electricity System
Figure 2: The History of the Electricity
System
Figure 3: Percentage of Total Electricity
Generation, by Source
Resilience
Government Policy
Box 1: The Trilemma
Electricity Market Reform
Network Standards
Audience
Acknowledgments
Chapter 2: The electricity system
Engineering the future: Viewing the electricity
system as a whole
Chapter 3: Will the lights go out?
The Narrowing Capacity Margin
Box 2: The Capacity Margin and Loss of Load
Expectation (LOLE)
Box 3: Key Data
The Capacity Market
Figure 4: Capacity Procured in the Auction
by Technology Type
Resilient networks
Costs and benefits
Table 1: France and UK comparison (LOLE)
Figure 5: Average Annual Electricity Prices
Chapter 4: Risks to resilience
Extreme weather
Terrorism: physical and cyber
The risk register and emergency response
Space weather
Chapter 5: Changing demand
Figure 6: Total Electricity Consumption
Electric vehicles and heat pumps
Box 4: Electric Vehicles
Box 5: Heat Pumps
Air conditioning
Energy efficiency and reducing energy use
Social futures
Distribution networks
Demand side response
Industrial DSR
Box 6: Existing Demand Side Response—Case
Studies
Domestic DSR
Policies to encourage DSR
Chapter 6: Interconnection
Figure 7: Interconnection Map
Chapter 7: Electricity storage
Box 7: Electricity Storage
Chapter 8: Flexible generation
Intermittent renewables and the effect
on resilience
Box 8: Wind, Solar and Hydroelectricity
Table 2: Estimated average impact of energy
and climate change policies on household electricity prices
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
Box 9: Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
Nuclear
Box 10: Flexible Nuclear
Chapter 9: Directing the future
Research, development and demonstration
(RD&D)
Summary of Conclusions and Recommendations
Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations
of interest
Appendix 2: List of witnesses
Appendix 3: Call for evidence
Appendix 4: Seminar held at the House of
Lords
Appendix 5: Private meeting held at the House
of Lords
Appendix 6: Abbreviations and Acronyms
Evidence is published online at http://www.parliament.uk/resilience-of-electricity-infrastructure
and available for inspection at the parliamentary Archives
(020 7219 3074).
Q in footnotes refers to a question in oral evidence.
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