Smart Energy Europe: The technical and economic impact of one potential 100% renewable energy scenario for the European Union

Connolly, David; Lund, Henrik; Mathiesen, Brian Vad

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2016.02.025

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“…We acknowledge that this proposition is a radical one but the time for subtleties has long passed. What global society now needs is a workable and holistic "prescription for the planet" [31].…”

Section: Alternative Energy Mixes and The "Silver Buckshot"mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It has all of the crucial attributions required of a clean-energy "techno-fix", in that: (i) it offers the feasible prospect of a "plug in" replacement for coal-and gas-fired electricity; (ii) its process heat or excess electrical output can be used for synfuel manufacture and other industrial applications to replace oil; and (iii) this next generation of nuclear power systems avoids many of the real and perceived problems of current-generation reactor technology [31,[58][59][60][61].…”

Section: Integral Fast Reactors-an Exemplar "Silver Bullet" Clean-enementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The result of this decade-long project at America's premier nuclear research centre was the Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) that solves virtually all the serious problems of nuclear power [61,63]. Just as the final stage of the project was to be demonstrated, however, it was cut short by a purely political decision that eliminated the funding and shut down the program [31,61,64].…”

Section: Integral Fast Reactors-an Exemplar "Silver Bullet" Clean-enementioning

confidence: 99%

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Silver Buckshot or Bullet: Is a Future “Energy Mix” Necessary?

Brook

Blees²,

Wigley

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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Abstract:To displace fossil fuels and achieve the global greenhouse-gas emissions reductions required to meet the Paris Agreement on climate change, the prevalent argument is that a mix of different low-carbon energy sources will need to be deployed. Here we seek to challenge that viewpoint. We argue that a completely decarbonized, energy-rich and sustainable future could be achieved with a dominant deployment of next-generation nuclear fission and associated technologies for synthesizing liquid fuels and recycling waste. By contrast, non-dispatchable energy sources like wind and solar energy are arguably superfluous, other than for niche applications, and run the risk of diverting resources away from viable and holistic solutions. For instance, the pairing of variable renewables with natural-gas backup fails to address many of the entrenched problems we seek to solve. Our conclusion is that, given the urgent time frame and massive extent of the energy-replacement challenge, half-measures that distract from or stymie effective policy and infrastructure investment should be avoided.

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Section: Alternative Energy Mixes and The "Silver Buckshot"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Integral Fast Reactors-an Exemplar "Silver Bullet" Clean-enementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Integral Fast Reactors-an Exemplar "Silver Bullet" Clean-enementioning

confidence: 99%

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Silver Buckshot or Bullet: Is a Future “Energy Mix” Necessary?

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Blees²,

Wigley

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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“…As academics and researchers in the field of sustainable energy we should aim to analyse the complex interaction of technology in terms of environmental costs, energy costs, energy security and economic opportunity to fully decarbonise human activity and preserve the planet. This interaction has recently been referred to as the 'energy quadrilemma' [38], [39], [40], [41].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of developments in technologies and research that have had a direct measurable impact on sustainability considering the Paris agreement on climate change

Foley

Smyth

Pukšec

et al. 2017

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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“…The solution to the well-known sustainable energy system planning problems lies in further integration of electricity, transport and heating systems into one system with increased flexibility [9][10][11][12]. Mancarella [9] identified advantages of smart energy systems through their "multi-energy" perspective which increases systems efficiency and flexibility.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Two methods for decreasing the flexibility gap in national energy systems

Bjelić

Rajaković

Krajačić

et al. 2016

Energy

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Abstract:More variable renewable energy sources and energy efficiency measures create an additional flexibility gap and require a novel energy planning method for sustainable national energy systems. The firstly presented method uses only EnergyPLAN tool in order to decrease the flexibility gap in a national energy system. Generic Optimization program (GenOpt®) is an optimization program for the minimization of a cost function that is evaluated by an external simulation program, such as EnergyPLAN, which was used as the second method in this research. Successful strategies to decrease the flexibility gap are verified on the case of the Serbian national energy system using two methods for its structure design: (1) the iterative method, based on heuristics and manual procedure of using only EnergyPLAN, and (2) the optimization method, based on soft-linking of EnergyPLAN with GenOpt®. The latter method, named EPOPT (EnergyPlan-genOPT), found the solution for the structure of the sustainable national energy system at the total cost of 8,190 M€, while the iterative method was only able to find solutions at the cost in the range of 8,251-8,598 M€ by targeting only one sustainability goal. The advantages of the EPOPT method are its accuracy, user-friendliness and minimal costs, are valuable for planners. Highlights Heuristic and optimization method for sustainable national energy system structure  The same input assumptions resulting in different energy system structure  Both methods are successful in decreasing of the flexibility gap  The EPOPT method advantages are in the speed, accuracy and planner comfort  Advanced method for the sustainable national energy policy planning

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Smart Energy Europe: The technical and economic impact of one potential 100% renewable energy scenario for the European Union

Cited by 595 publications

References 61 publications

Silver Buckshot or Bullet: Is a Future “Energy Mix” Necessary?

Silver Buckshot or Bullet: Is a Future “Energy Mix” Necessary?

A review of developments in technologies and research that have had a direct measurable impact on sustainability considering the Paris agreement on climate change

Two methods for decreasing the flexibility gap in national energy systems

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