UK power policy: Power generation for the future - a strategy for security. Neil Kemble. Energy World November/December 2006, P. 22-23

As we approach winter and face another round of power prices rises and ongoing questions about security of energy supply, ensuring that we have the right power generation strategy in place is more important than ever. While coal and gas power generation will clearly continue to be vital, these resources are diminishing and the UK could be reliant on insecure and expensive overseas supplies. Equally importantly we need to find new, less polluting forms of power generation, yet the question of which forms of generation to back remains divisive. Is it nuclear, large-scale renewable projects, microgeneration or demand management which holds the key? Here, Neil Kemble of Hyder Consulting argues that it is actually all of these.