2050 target: intermittent renewable energies will only partially reduce CO2 emissions in Europe - Fact sheet, December 2023
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Intermittent energies are not sufficient to achieve carbon neutrality. The idea that these energies could be stored in sufficient quantities to compensate for periods of low production, at reasonable cost, is far from realistic. Only Hydraulic Pumped Storage Power Stations can make a partial contribution to this function, and then only in certain countries, for periods that do not optimally meet the need for constant production. Analysis of four different technical configurations (Germany, Denmark, France, Portugal) and their trends between 2016 and 2022, as well as the first nine months of 2023, reveal that: - increasing the relative share of intermittent energies does not lead to a reduction in CO2 emissions in the energy mix; - countries whose energy policy is based on the massive use of wind and solar power fail to achieve CO2 emission levels below 200 gCO2/KWh
Abstract (French)
Les energies intermittentes ne permettent pas d'atteindre l'objectif de neutralite carbone. L'idee selon laquelle ces energies pourraient etre stockees en quantites suffisantes pour compenser les periodes de faible production, a des couts raisonnables, est loin d'etre realiste. Seules les Stations de Transfert d'energie par Pompage Hydraulique (STEP) contribuent partiellement a cette fonction, et ce, uniquement dans certains pays, sur des periodes qui ne repondent pas de maniere optimale a la necessite d'une production constante. L'analyse de quatre configurations techniques differentes (Allemagne, Danemark, France, Portugal) et de leurs evolutions entre 2016 et 2022, ainsi que les neuf premiers mois de 2023, revelent que: - accroitre la part relative des energies intermittentes ne conduit pas a une diminution des emissions de CO_2 dans le mix energetique; - les pays dont la politique energetique repose sur une utilisation massive de l'eolien et du solaire ne parviennent pas a atteindre des taux d'emissions de CO_2 inferieurs a 200 gCO_2/KWh
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Additional titles
- Original title (French)
- Objectif 2050: les energies renouvelables intermittentes ne reduiront que partiellement les emissions de CO2 en Europe - Fiche, Decembre 2023
Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 5 p.
- Report number
- INIS-FR--25-0290
INIS
- Country of Publication
- France
- Country of Input or Organization
- France
- Subject category
- S29: ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- WIND POWER PLANTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER PLANTS; CAPACITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; FOSSIL-FUEL POWER PLANTS; PUMPED STORAGE POWER PLANTS; IMPORTS; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; FRANCE; FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY; PORTUGAL; DENMARK; PRODUCTION; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NATIONAL ENERGY PLANS; ENERGY SOURCE DEVELOPMENT; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
- Descriptors DEC
- DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENERGY; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY SOURCES; EUROPE; EVALUATION; GOVERNMENT POLICIES; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; PEAKING POWER PLANTS; POWER PLANTS; SCANDINAVIA; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; TRADE; WESTERN EUROPE
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