Energy

- new engineering challenges

As demand for energy sources in the UK continues, the UK is seeing unprecedented change in supply methods for both domestic energy and power for businesses.

Opportunities for Mechanical Engineering to meet the new challenges will be exceptional, with pressures to reduce Carbon Emissions and the renewables energy market also driving new opportunities.

Many GTMA members are already involved in both the Nuclear and the Renewables Energy market, with many more through our Automotive Network working within in automotive supply chains including those for the new breed of electric and hybrid vehicles.

Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne announced at the end of 2010 that “more than £110 billion of investment is needed in new power stations and grid upgrades over the next decade – double the rate of the last ten years.”

He went on: “Put simply, the current market is not fit to deliver this. Without investment in renewables, new nuclear and carbon capture and storage, emissions will remain too high, we will become dependent on energy imports, and increasingly vulnerable to fossil fuel price volatility.”

Current involvement by GTMA members includes:
•Precision Machining

•Metrology

•Press and Mould Tool making

•Machine Tool manufacture and distribution

•Machine Tool Consumables

•Materials

For more information on the reform of the energy sector, please visit: The Department of Energy and Climate Change website: www.decc.gov.uk/
+ + + If you would like to join one or more of our Sector Networks, and to be part of their Engineering Supply Chains, please contact GTMA on +44(0)121 601 6350 or email: admin@gtma.co.uk