MPs on the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee have been told by industry experts that technologies to decarbonise the UK economy should urgently be tested at scale if the fourth and fifth carbon budgets are to be met. The committee held an evidence session on Tuesday 15 January as part of its ongoing inquiry on technologies needed to meet Clean Growth Strategy targets. Witnesses including Chairman of the Committee on Climate Change Lord Deben and Director of the UK Energy Research Centre Jim Watson agreed that efforts had to move beyond the power sector, where progress had masked a lack of action elsewhere. Witnesses called for large-scale trials of technologies for transport, carbon capture and storage, and in particular heat, with testing of hybrid boilers, electrification and hydrogen needed.
