Net zero in the heating sector: Technological options and environmental sustainability from now to 2050

Editorial: Green and sustainable LNG supply chain: A bridge to a low carbon energy society

“…Heating provided by natural gas-fired thermal plants could reduce the carbon emission by replacing the coal and oil-based thermal plants. Natural gas boilers are competitive with electric heaters, air source heat pumps, and hydrogen boilers for heating (Slorach and Stamford, 2021). The pipe insulation performance of natural gas-based district heating system for low-temperature applications was investigated by Usman and Kim.…”

Assessing the Effectiveness of Energy Efficiency Measures in the Residential Sector Gas Consumption Through Dynamic Treatment Effects: Evidence from England and Wales

“…Indeed, while improving energy efficiency in the building sector is believed to be one of the most cost-effective ways to improve energy security and reduce the environmental damages from the current energy system (IEA, 2016), energy consumption in households is not decreasing (Gram-Hanssen, 2015;Gram-Hanssen and Georg, 2018). In addition, some EE interventions could perpetuate the use of natural gas in the residential sector for heating in that they may, for example, delay electrification, and this may also result in some increases in methane emissions, another important GHG (Slorach and Stamford, 2021;Field and Derwent, 2021).…”

A critique on the UK’s net zero strategy

“…Their study highlighted that with an 80 % reduction until 2050 in GHG Emissions, investments in the UK energy stay in the range of £1-6bn/year as opposed to £1-2bn/year with no action strategy. More studies in from 2018 until 2021 about UK decarbonization policy also predicted feasibility of zero carbon electricity if low carbon technologies are deployed on a large scale [10] , [11] , [12] , [13] . The key technologies target energy efficiency (insulations and efficient heating) and fuel switching to renewables and hydrogen.…”