Advance publication of the study “Balancing Renewable Electricity”

A significant problem of integrating renewable energies into the electricity system is the temporally fluctuating supply by wind and solar power plants. Thus, in order to meet the ambitious long-term targets on CO₂-emission reduction, long-term viable low-carbon options for balancing electricity will be needed.

The current study of the Europäische Akademie “Balancing Renewable Electricity. Energy Storage, Demand Side Management and Network Extension from an Interdisciplinary Perspective” is concerned with the interdisciplinary discussion of these options and will be published in February 2012. Now already a summarising advance publication is available.

The study analyses published future energy scenarios in order to get an impression of the required balancing capacities and shows which framework conditions should be modified to support their realisation. The authors combine their perspectives from energy engineering, technology assessment, political science, economical science and jurisprudence and address science, politics, actors in the energy sector and the interested public.

The advance publication of the study “Balancing Renewable Electricity” can be downloaded here.

The final study will be published in February 2012 (Springer Verlag) and will be presented in Berlin. Further information will be announced.