Assumption 7: Improved integration of renewable energies
In order for Europe to harness the enormous potential of renewable energies, it must ensure that renewable energy is optimally integrated into existing systems (e.g. the network structure, load management or storage systems for weather-dependent energy sources such as wind or solar energy) in order to ensure that electricity production and demand correspond. Electric energy and, in the long-term, hydrogen (considerably after 2030) will ultimately become the most important energy sources.In theory, renewable energy sources could supply the entire global demand for electricity, heat, cooling and fuel. The experts who worked on BULLENSEE ASSUMPTION 7 estimate that renewable energies could provide around half of the global demand for energy by as soon as the middle of the century and 80 per cent by the end of the century – and all with technology already available today. Because these energy sources are by their nature not continuously available, many issues surrounding the integration of renewable energy facilities into the existing international energy system remain. One method of balancing electricity supply and demand is storing wind and solar energy, for example by using hydrogen as an energy source.
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