Technology route maps
Technology route maps (key technological milestones) have
been prepared for each of the main new and renewable energy
technologies to cover the period up to 2020.
Each route map is the result of extensive consultation with
industry and other key stakeholders. Early drafts were published
on the DTI website and presented at consultation workshops.
They elicited inputs from relevant industries and from academia.
The aim throughout has been to encourage a broad consensus
on the way forward and to ensure that support programmes focus
on key priority areas.
Each route map paper has a common structure. It describes
the technology, its likely market and the perceived benefits
of its adoption. It examines the status of the technology,
sets targets for its commercial competitiveness, identifies
the main R&D and non-technical issues (as currently understood),
and summarises the strengths (and, where appropriate, weaknesses)
of the relevant UK industries. Finally - usually preceding
this with a detailed rationale - it sets out the route map,
with dates, for a support programme that will help to give
the UK a competitive advantage in both UK and overseas markets.
The Technologies
The technologies included in this publication comprise:
- a wide range of renewable energy technologies, some of
which are already at or approaching commercialisation
- technologies such as tidal barrages and photoconversion
that could be important to the UK in the longer term
- hydrogen, an energy vector that could be the basis in
the long term of an eventual and global hydrogen economy
non-technology-specific issues such as embedded generation.
- There is also a paper summarising technology transfer
and exports promotion initiatives.
The full list of papers is as follows:
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