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José RUIZ ESPIRTD.K.3 New and renewable energy sources

European Commission

EU Research on Renewable Energies

The future of European Strategy

for the Outermost Regions

Brussels, 15 May 2008

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Context : EU-27 Energy mix

Others 12%

Hydro 22%

Biomass

66%

Coal

18%

Other6.38%

Nuclear14%

Oil38%

Gas24%

Solar

Wind47%

47%

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Source: EC –DG TREN

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Context : EU-25 Energy Imports

Source: Slides from EC Green Paper « A European Strategy for Sustainable, Competitive and Secure Energy COM(2006)105 final

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Context :The 2°C challenge: Cut global emission by 15-20%

by 2050 compared with 1990 Technologies that can reduce global CO2 emissions from energy

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EU Most Relevant Policy Initiatives

Green Paper (March 2006)

“A European Strategy for Sustainable, Competitive and Secure Energy”

Energy Package

EU targets by 2020 (20% - 20% - 20%):

SET - Plan to accelerate the development and implementation of low-carbon technologies

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EU instruments

New instruments (SET Plan):

European Industrial Initiatives (bringing together resources and actors in a particular industrial sector)

European Energy Research Alliance (greater co-operation of research work in universities, research institutes, etc.)

Trans-European Energy Networks and Systems of the Future

European Energy Technology System

Steering Group on Strategic Energy Technologies

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Proposed priority initiatives

• European Wind (on and off-shore applications)

• Solar Europe Initiative (PV and CSP)• Bio-energy Europe (next generation' biofuels

within an overall bio-energy use strategy)• European CO2 capture, transport and

storage (whole system requirements, including efficiency, safety and public acceptance)

• European electricity grid (smart electricity system, including storage)

• Sustainable nuclear fission (Generation-IV)

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EU instruments

“Classical” instrument: FP7 (Calls for proposals)

Cooperation programme breakdown (million €)

Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities; 623

Environment (including Climate

Change); 1890

Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and

Biotechnology; 1935

Energy; 2350

Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new

Production Technologies; 3475

Security and Space; 2830

Transport (including Aeronautics); 4160

Health; 6100

Information and Communication

Technologies; 9050

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EU instruments

“Classical” instrument: FP 7

Towards Sustainable Energy SystemToday

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Cogeneration

Carbon Capture& Storage

Biofuels

Hydrogen Cars

Wave

Geothermal Power

Fusion

Energy Efficiencyin Buildings

Enabling Energy Network Infrastructure

Hydropower

Fission

Wind

Concentrated Solar

Energy Efficiency in Industry

Time Horizon

LEGEND:

- The size of each circle indicates the total energy potential of a given technology relatively to other technologies- The darker colour indicates the additional energy potential in comparison to the baseline

- Challenge for implementation indicates in relative terms how demanding is the deployment of a given technology with respect to other technologies within a similar time period

- The relative position of each technology on the time horizon axis indicates an approximate time period when the technology additional potential is expected to start being exploited

2050+

Geothermal Heating

Solar Photovoltaics

Solar Heating & Cooling

Demand side technologies

Supply side technologies

Transport

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Research topics of interest for OR

General characteristics

Small

Densely populated

Tropical / subtropical

Touristic

Isolated

Energy dependent

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Research topics of interest for OR

Promising technologies

More efficient and competitive photovoltaic energy (suitable for small or big scale)

Offshore wind power (reduced visual impact)

Wave energy (limited potential)

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