Optimising the UK's shift to a renewable-powered economy - report

This report shows what is possible to achieve by 2030 based on current policy ambitions and the technical constraints and market structures that govern the UK energy system today. The UK can go further, faster.

New developments we know are coming this decade – from electric vehicles to electric heating – will transform our energy system. They will also require more power and more flexibility to ensure the system can balance new supply and demand as millions of “batteries on wheels” are connected.

Flexibility is the key to unlocking higher levels of renewables in the next 10 years and enabling a pathway to a net-zero energy system by 2050 or before.

Wärtsilä Energy Transition Lab is a tool that gathers real power market data from European countries and the UK to illustrate and understand the impact of the pandemic. Explore it here.