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Consultant for onshore renewables and storage
Hybrid renewables are playing a strategic role in accelerating the decarbonisation of power generation and supporting the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as supporting the UK’s net zero by 2050 ambition and its interim emissions reduction of 78% by 2035. Peter Lo, Onshore Renewables and Storage Sector Director at ITPEnergised, discusses the UK’s own emergence into the hybrid energy sector and how it is better for our planet, better in the economics and better for offtake.
The whole world is heading towards net zero, in a move towards clean energy, which, in addition to its environmental impact, has a technology, regulatory and economic impact. We have seen serious momentum about hybrid renewables in mainland UK in recent years, and have a history going back even further to some of the early success cases in remote island areas of Scotland from 15 years ago. We are led to believe by market behaviour that hybrids will become the new normal for all renewable energy developers.