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The Renewables Innovation Review

The Renewables Innovation Review was undertaken to:

• identify the key renewable technologies for the delivery of UK targets and aspirations, for the delivery of the UK’s wider carbon reduction aspirations, and for the creation of economic benefits for the UK
• identify the barriers to the development and deployment of key renewable technologies
• understand better the innovation process in key renewable energy sectors
• identify the most cost-effective government measures to facilitate the delivery of UK targets.

The DTI (now BERR) and the Carbon Trust, both members of the Sustainable Energy Policy Network, jointly conducted the Review.

The Review will feed into BERR and the Government’s future funding decisions. It will also contribute to the 2005/06 Renewables Obligation Review.

The Renewables Innovation Review

• Introduction (443KB)
• Conclusions of the renewables innovation review. (572KB)
• 2010 Target (908KB)
• Longer-term options (813KB)
• Government Action is required (893KB)
• Wave and Tidal (705KB)
• Biomass  (632KB)
• Fuel Cells (794KB)
• Solar and Buildings  (705KB)
• Bibliography (527KB)

Reports commissioned as part of the Review

• Biomass for heat and power in the UK - A techno-economic assessment of long term potential (868KB)
• Offshore wind: economies of scale, engineering resource and load factors (291KB)
• The UK Innovation systems for new and renewable energy technologies (1769KB)
• Innovation in long term renewables options in the UK: Overcoming barriers and systems failures (232KB)
• Review of renewable energy development in Europe and US (1454KB)
• Innovation in the renewable heat sector in the UK: markets, opportunities and barriers (63KB)
• Review of the economic case for energy crops in the UK (168KB)
• Results of renewables market modelling (273KB)