Power

Question 1

What is the energy security index

Answer 1

How secure the source is

Question 2

What is an energy mix

Answer 2

When you aren’t reliant on one type of resource.

Question 3

What environmental factors affect access to and consumption of resources

Answer 3

• If sunshine hours are low and only for half the year, you can’t use solar panels
• Natural disasters can interrupt business such as fires in power stations
• Nuclear reactions require water to cool.
• Potential sources available or not

Question 4

What social factors affect access to and consumption of resources

Answer 4

• People are not always skilled enough to create systems or access sources
• Increased demand increase energy use
• Some believe they are entitled to having an industrial revolution
• Health risks

Question 5

What economic factors affect access to and consumption of resources

Answer 5

• Weak economies mean lack of funding for research into new sources
• Renewable energy sources are expensive to start up. (Not economically viable)
• Ability to import sources
• Cost of accessing eg. mining, drilling

Question 6

What % of UK’s energy does wind provide

Answer 6

3%

Question 7

In 2006 how much energy consumed derived from fossil solar fuels

Answer 7

92%

Question 8

How much gas was UK based in 2004 and in 2020 how much will be from abroad

Answer 8

95%

8% UK 40% abroad

Question 9

What is the main governmental goal

Answer 9

Building diverse, low carbon sustainable energy mix, removing reliance

Question 10

What have electricity prices risen by

Answer 10

electricity prices have risen 4x as much as wages, 2x as much as inflation

Question 11

What is a black out

Answer 11

Short period, phased, no energy

Question 12

What is a brown out

Answer 12

Pick high consumption areas

Question 13

How much % did the ‘big 6’ lose in the market and what did this enable people to do

Answer 13

Lost 10% market share. People save by switching