The report highlights momentum behind the energy transition, driven by policy initiatives including Clean Power 2030, Nationally Determined Contributions for 2035 and the UK\u2019s Net Zero 2050 commitment. <\/p>\n
It offers that the long-term outlook offers genuine cause for optimism, even though net zero is likely to be reached only in the decade after mid-century.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe UK is transitioning fast – but not fast enough to hit targets,\u201d said Hari Vamadevan, regional director, UK & Ireland, Energy Systems at DNV.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe beginning of 2026 has shown that when government policy and business align, the energy transition can accelerate significantly; when they are disconnected, progress stalls. One thing the last 12 months have demonstrated is that we do indeed need to move forward, faster, together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Energy-efficient<\/strong><\/p>\n The outlook identifies marine transport as the most energy-efficient freight mode over long distances, accounting for 11% of UK transport energy demand in 2024.<\/p>\n Demand largely comes from international shipping and vessels bunkering in UK ports, which represented 85% of maritime energy use in 2021.<\/p>\n Maritime energy demand is forecast to remain stable until 2027 before gradually declining, reaching 44% below current levels by 2060 as vessel efficiency improves.<\/p>\n Measures such as wind-assisted propulsion, increased ship utilisation and fuel switching are expected to drive these reductions.<\/p>\n The report also anticipates a significant diversification of marine fuels. By 2060 the maritime energy mix could comprise 26% bioenergy, 21% ammonia and 14% synthetic e-fuels, alongside smaller shares of oil, natural gas and electricity.<\/p>\n Across the wider energy system, renewable energy and nuclear are expected to supply 84% of the UK\u2019s energy mix by 2060, with wind generation increasing nearly fivefold and solar output expanding more than tenfold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DNV\u2019s fourth\u00a0Energy Transition Outlook UK 2026\u00a0analyses how the UK\u2019s energy system could evolve through to 2060 and assesses progress toward national decarbonisation targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,74],"tags":[40,713,670,539,181],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-6160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-technology-greenport","category-insight-opinion-greenport","tag-alternative-fuels","tag-dnv","tag-energy-transition","tag-port-infrastructure","tag-renewable-energy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6162,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160\/revisions\/6162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6160"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=6160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}