Our next event is Power in the Economy: Affordable engineering & technology solutions by Dr David Clarke, The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) on Monday 16 November 2009, 6.30pm at the The Royal Society, 7 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG

The UK energy system is under increasing pressure and requires substantial upgrading and replacement to tackle the combined challenges of climate change (principally Carbon Dioxide emissions), energy affordability and security of supply. Addressing these challenges requires changes to the UK power generation, transmission and distribution systems and, critically, demands that we ensure that every unit of energy is used as efficiently as possible and forms part of a long-term sustainable system. We will only properly achieve this if all sectors are involved – Power, Heat, Transport and their supporting infrastructures.

Details are on the Nature Network listing or see the R&D Society website for details.