1. Session # 8 – December 2, 2010
TODAY’S TOPIC:
Challenges to Renewables
(and another look at the international level)
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2. Session # 8 – December 2, 2010
Where are we now?
Solar SHP & Wind Policies & Future Summary
Funding
Thermal Interview Biopower Challenges & Outlook
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3. Session # 8 – December 2, 2010
What we will cover
• An Update on the Events in Cancun (COP 16)
• Key Challenges to Renewables
• Sea Change Ahead in the Energy Industry
• Our Expert Interview
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4. Session # 8 – December 2, 2010
Our Schedule for Today
1 Key Challenges for Renewables
• Infrastructure
• Storage
• Finance
• Research & Development
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5. Session # 8 – December 2, 2010
Our Schedule for Today
2 Sea change ahead: the energy industry
• The change brought about by Renewables
• From large-scale to community level
• New interplay of forces, new actors in the industry
• Consumption to become more flexible?
• Electric mobility – a vision for the energy industry
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6. Session # 8 – December 2, 2010
Our Schedule for Today
3 Our expert’s view on RE Funding
• Which measures have been most successful?
• Should we distinguish by technology or region?
• What are his recommendations for emerging
economies / developing countries?
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7. Session # 8 – December 2, 2010
Before we start…
• News from the Forum, Feedback from last session
A Country
B Data
C Business
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1 Key challenges for Renewables
• Infrastructure
- Predictability essential for the grid
- The problem of growing distance between
generation and consumption
- The German example: controversy within the
environmental movement / the green party
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9. Session # 8 – December 2, 2010
1 Key challenges for Renewables
• Storage
- Intermittency of Renewables Energies
- Currently still expensive way to deal with
variability
- Problem: no direct storage but conversion into
different form: chemical / potential / mechanical
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1 Key challenges for Renewables
• Storage
- Chemical: batteries
- Potential: hydrostorage
- Mechanical: air compression / flywheels
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1 Key challenges for Renewables
• Storage
- The problem of scale and efficiency levels
- The loss involved
- The hydrogen option
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12. Session # 8 – December 2, 2010
1 Key challenges for Renewables
• Finance
- in particular large-scale Renewables projects
- cyclical investor behaviour
- growing difference between multinationals and
RE technology producers
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13. Session # 8 – December 2, 2010
1 Key challenges for Renewables
• R&D
- Giant steps in basic science needed, not only
applied R&D
- Problem: selection of ‘winner technology’, no
lock-out of promising newcomers
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14. Session # 8 – December 2, 2010
2 Sea change to the energy industry
• Trend towards small-step, grass-roots level
- options of decentralized generation
- DAD overcome (e.g. Finland / Germany)
- Eroding power of utilities
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15. Session # 8 – December 2, 2010
2 Sea change to the energy industry
• New interplay of forces and actors
- Traditional energy sector
- IT and Communications Sector
- Car Producers Innovation
- Renewables industries and lobbies
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16. Session # 8 – December 2, 2010
2 Sea change to the energy industry
• Changing roles of supply and demand
- Traditionally: supply to follow demand
- Change with RE technologies / availability
- Moreover: price awareness of consumers
- Smart metering
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17. Session # 8 – December 2, 2010
2 Sea change to the energy industry
• The impact of electric mobility
- Many challenges ahead (infrastr./legal/…)
- Joint projects with many industries involved
- Impetus from governmental level
- Enormous potential impact
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18. Session # 8 – December 2, 2010
Your expert next week
Felicitas Quaß Alumniportal Content Manager
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