The Current World Energy Situation and Suggested Future Energy Scenarios to Meet the Energy Challenges by 2050 in the UK

Ahmed Gailani; Waleed Al-sallami; Nawar H. Imran

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The Current World Energy Situation and Suggested Future Energy Scenarios to Meet the Energy Challenges by 2050 in the UK

Ahmed Gailani, Waleed Al-sallami, Nawar H. Imran

Published in International Journal of Sustainable and Green Energy (Volume 4, Issue 6)

Received: 20 October 2015 Accepted: 27 October 2015 Published: 17 November 2015

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Abstract

Currently, energy demand is ever increasing along with the high levels of population world-wide. The global dependence on fossil fuels is very high and the need for reducing our energy consumption in line with mitigating the greenhouse gasses emissions is compelling. With the current global reduction of oil prices, companies or even governments tend to import more energy due to economic reasons. For instance, recently, DHL which is a famous company providing international express delivery, introduced a helicopter express delivery in London. Such development gives a real indication that as people/agencies consume more fossil fuels, in fact, the world become closer to the reserves ending point. Accordingly, this makes renewables deployment and hence reducing energy cost is quite difficult. This paper gives an overview of the current world energy situation along with three energy scenarios for the UK to achieve the official announced targets by 2050. Finally, looking for liquid metal battery advantages to secure our future energy needs.

Published in	International Journal of Sustainable and Green Energy (Volume 4, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijrse.20150406.12
Page(s)	212-218
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Liquid Metal Battery, Greenhouse Gasses, Global Energy Consumption, Energy Scenarios for the UK by 2050, DECC

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Ahmed Gailani, Waleed Al-sallami, Nawar H. Imran. The Current World Energy Situation and Suggested Future Energy Scenarios to Meet the Energy Challenges by 2050 in the UK. Int J Sustain Green Energy. 2015;4(6):212-218. doi: 10.11648/j.ijrse.20150406.12

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Ahmed Gailani

School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Waleed Al-sallami

School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Nawar H. Imran

School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

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Ahmed Gailani, Waleed Al-sallami, Nawar H. Imran. The Current World Energy Situation and Suggested Future Energy Scenarios to Meet the Energy Challenges by 2050 in the UK. Int J Sustain Green Energy. 2015;4(6):212-218. doi: 10.11648/j.ijrse.20150406.12

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