Kyoto and climate change is going to be the single biggest driver in energy markets in the next 15 years. Simon Minett, director of the advocacy group Cogen Europe, told the European Electricity Forum which ended in Amsterdam on 24 November. Cogeneration is the simultaneous production of heat and electricity, most often through the burning of natural gas. The Kyoto protocols are expected to push many electricity producers away from coal and oil as their main fuels and towards the much cleaner burning natural gas. And this is just a start.
Wind is a limitless resource.
He said Denmark, the world leader in wind energy, was now generating eight percent of its electricity from wind, and was aiming to raise this to 50 percent by 2030. Bourillon said the next challenge was to develop offshore wind power, which is still in its infancy. A recent study by the environmental group Greenpeace estimated that Britain alone could in theory generate three times its total electricity needs from this resource.