Global Energy Supply and Emissions: An Interdisciplinary View on Effects, Restrictions, Requirements and Options (Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment)

Business & Money

Ziesemer, Thomas

Streffer, Christian

Gethmann, Carl Friedrich

Kröger, Wolfgang

Von Storch, Hans

Kamp, Georg

Knodt, Michèle

Economics

Springer

Managing a successful transition of the current energy supply system to less carbon emitting options, ensuring a safe and secure supply during the whole process and in the long term, is one of the largest challenges of our time. Various approaches and first implementations show that it is not only technological issue, but also a matter of societal acceptance and acceptability, considering basic ethic values of the society.The main foci of the book are, thus, to develop an understanding about the specific challenges of the scientific policy advice in the area, to explore typical current approaches for the analysis of future energy systems and to develop criteria for the quality assessment and guidelines for the improvement of such studies.The book provides assistance to the interpretation of existing studies and guidelines for setting up and carrying out new analyses as well as for communicating and applying the results. Thereby, it aims to support the involved actors such as the respective scientific experts and researchers as well as decision makers, energy suppliers, stakeholders and the interested public in designing procedures for a successful transition process. The study elaborates consistent interdisciplinary advice as contribution for realising a continuously safe and secure, long-term viable energy supply in spite of diverse interests, multi-level responsibilities, multi-dimensional processes, large uncertainties and lack of knowledge about future developments.

Improving Energy Decisions: Towards Better Scientific Policy Advice for a Safe and Secure Future Energy System (Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment, 42)

Droste-Franke, Bert

Schreurs, Miranda

Weber, Christoph

Carrier, M.

Kaiser, M.

Explores how these conflicting scenarios could be reconciled; how can we shape a more sustainable energy system from the existing one; and possible technological progress and innovations to enable a brighter future. Addresses the reality that there exists no consensus on the extent to which innovations can really contribute to reconciling ever-growing energy consumption, availability of resources and the environment, and the structural demands on any energy system. Offers and explains a four-point strategy: Energy should according to its importance regain a top priority in the political arena; higly targeted subsidies should be given for a limited amount of time to speed up the market introduction of energy-efficient and regenerative techniques in analogy to the ‚Dutch model‘; Negotiated agreements and unilateral self-commitments can subsequently ensure further market diffusion of sustainable energy innovations.; the basic research in energy should not be diminished but intensified instead

Sustainable Development and Innovation in the Energy Sector

Blok, Kornelis

Hanekamp, Gerd

Steger, Ulrich

Achterberg, Wouter

Bode, Henning

Frenz, Walter

Gather, Corinna

Imboden, Dieter

Jahnke, Matthias

Kost, Michael

Kurz, Rudi

Nutzinger, Hans Gottfried

Die interdisziplinäre Studie zeigt Wege für einen zukunftsfähigen Einsatz von Brennstoffzellen in Minikraftwerken als Heizungsersatz auf. Mit ihnen können bei einer koordinierten Kopplung und Steuerung in sogenannten Virtuellen Kraftwerken durch bedarfsgerechte Fahrweise neben einer Grundversorgung auch Spitzen der Stromnachfrage abgedeckt werden. In der Studie werden zunächst Konkurrenztechnologien miteinander verglichen und Rahmenbedingungen analysiert, bevor Strategien zur Beseitigung von Innovationsbarrieren erörtert und Handlungsempfehlungen für den politischen Umgang mit den neuen Technologien gegeben werden.

Brennstoffzellen und Virtuelle Kraftwerke: Energie-, umwelt- und technologiepolitische Aspekte einer effizienten Hausenergieversorgung (Ethics of ... Technology Assessment, 36) (German Edition)

Berg, Holger

Kötter, Annette

Krüger, Jörg

Mause, Karsten

Pielow, Johann-Christian

Romey, Ingo

Balancing Renewable Electricity: Energy Storage, Demand Side Management, and Network Extension from an Interdisciplinary Perspective (Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment, 40)

An important aim behind the restructuring of Germany’s and Europe’s electricity systems is to reduce the environmental burden, especially with respect to greenhouse gas emissions, of the current systems. Emissions must be brought down to a level that is sustainable in the long run and consistent with greenhouse gas emission reduction goals. Meeting these goals will require a system (as best as current knowledge suggests) that will be able to cope simultaneously with the fundamental demands for economic efficiency, environmental sustainability and supply security. Making use of existing scenarios, this study sketches such a system. It focuses in particular on auxiliary systems such as energy storage methods and network extensions. The study introduces technologies that can balance electricity in energy systems and that can serve as enabling technologies for the integration of large quantities of renewable energies in the power supply system. It begins with a discussion of normative aims for the future electricity system before continuing with a description of current policies and political developments and an overview of relevant existing energy system studies. These sections serve as background for the remainder of the study. They are followed by discussion and analysis of the growing demand for means to balance the fluctuations found in electricity generated in power systems with a high penetration of renewable energies, the potentials of diverse technologies, requirements for electrical networks, economic impacts and important legal issues. Finally, the main challenges to the achievement of developing balancing technologies and processes for renewable electricity-dominant systems are summarised and recommendations made.

Rehtanz, Christian

Schneider, Jens-Peter

Paal, Boris P.

Sauer, Dirk Uwe

Industries

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