Technical and Economic Analysis of the European Electricity System with 60% RES – A Review
Guest post by Dr Phillip Bratby who reviews the EDF R&D Paper ‘Technical and Economic Analysis of the European Electricity System with 60% RES, by Alain Burtin and Vera Silva, 17 June 2015’
Dr Phillip Bratby BSc, PhD, ARCS, MNucI has spent most of his career in the civil nuclear industry, working in the areas of the safety and operation of water reactors. Before retirement he was an in independent energy consultant.
Download the EDF report Technical and Economic Analysis of the European Electricity System with 60% RES from Energy Post.
Introduction
The EU has a strategy to increase the amount of electricity that will be generated from renewable energy sources (RES) to 55% by 2050. About 57% of the RES in Europe is currently hydro and there is little opportunity to expand hydro. Thus most of the projected increase in RES, which constitutes about 10% of electricity generation in 2014, will be from wind and solar PV, reaching 20% in 2020 and 30% in 2030. The EDF paper examined the future impacts, challenges and changes to the power system of increased wind and solar PV renewable energy sources (variable RES) on the European electricity grid…..
The paper examined a High RES scenario taken from the EU Energy Roadmap 2011. Assumptions concerning low carbon generation (RES and nuclear) were taken from the Roadmap, with 60% of electricity coming from RES by 2030, of which 40% would be variable RES.
In this review I have not examined the financial implications of the high RES scenario.
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