'There's enough pressure in the world's gas pipelines to make every nuclear power station redundant'

摘要

That's the bold claim of Andrew Mercer, setting out the rationale behind his Bath-based renewables company, 2OC. Founded in 2005, it aims to harvest clean electricity and heat from the waste energy produced by gas pressure reduction stations (PRSs), of which there are 12,500 in Britain.rn"I can recognise them in a heartbeat," Mercer says, describing them as "pipes, shaped like an L on its back, going into a big lump of metal - typically next to a gasometer".rnNot the most technically precise description, perhaps -and Mercer acknowledges as much with a laugh: "I'm an accountant by training," he apologises.