The chief executive of Centrica has called for a wider roll-out of hydrogen for heating and power generation in a bid to combat the intermittency of renewables.
Writing on LinkedIn, Chris O’Shea – who also serves as chairman of Centrica’s (LON:CNA) upstream arm Spirit Energy – said swings in the proportion of green energy on the grid posed “issues” that can only be met by dispatchable power.
Citing National Grid data, Mr O’Shea noted that around 16.5GW (nearly 70%) of the UK’s electricity was produced from renewable sources on the morning of Saturday 15th July, but by 5am on Tuesday 18th July this had fallen to just 10%, while almost 70% was produced from gas.
“When the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine, we have a problem. That problem won’t be solved by building more wind generation,” he said. https://www.energyvoice.com/…/centrica-boss-renewables…/
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