The technologies that would have the greatest impact on carbon reduction and where investment would have the greatest impact are:

• biomass for local heat generation;
• building design and construction, through fabric, heating, ventilation, cooling, and integrated design;
• domestic micro combined heat and power;
• advanced combined heat and power;
• fuel cells for domestic CHP and industrial and commercial purposes;
• hydrogen infrastructure, including transport, production, storage and distribution; and
• a variety of technologies within industry, such as combustion technologies, materials, process control, process intensification and separation technologies.

• lighting for buildings;
• biomass for local electricity generation;
• coal-bed methane;
• electricity storage technologies;
• waste heat recovery in industry;
• photoconversion;
• solar photovoltaics;
• solar water heating collectors;
• tidal stream; and
• offshore, near-shore and shoreline wavepower.

The Carbon Trust believes that this study is the first of its kind giving low carbon technologies a ranking for investment purposes. The Trust intends to re-run the study this year and says that it will welcome input from interested parties.

 

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