Long-term Integration of Renewable Energy Sources into the European Energy System, and its Potential Economic and Environmental Impacts (LTI)

Long-term Integration of Renewable Energy Sources into the European Energy System, and its Potential Economic and Environmental Impacts (LTI)

A sustainable European energy system, mitigating climate change and solving a number of other key environmental problems, will require massive reliance on renewable energy sources combined with a sharp increase in energy productivity. Considering that most of the technologies necessary for such a development are already available, today's most important questions are: How can these technologies be integrated into the European energy system ? What are the costs and benefits of such a strategy ? What are the major bottlenecks and obstacles to such a development ? What measures are necessary to support this development ? In the project a "sustainable scenario" and a "fair-market scenario" were developed as a means to demonstrate that concepts for a sustainable future European energy supply are feasible.

Client/Allowance
Europäische Kommission, Generaldirektion Forschung, Brüssel, BE
Cooperation partner
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Wuppertal, DE // Roskilde University, Roskilde, DK // Centre International de Recherche sur l´Environnement et le Développement, Nogent sur Marne, FR // Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Mons, BE

Selected Publications

Possible Contributions of Renewable Energies to the Solution of the Global Climate Problem

Groscurth, Helmuth-Michael and Sigurd Weinreich (1999), Possible Contributions of Renewable Energies to the Solution of the Global Climate Problem, in: O. Hohmeyer, K. Rennings (Eds.), Vol. 1, Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, 219-235

Long-Term Integration of Renewable Energy Sources into the European Energy System

Groscurth, Helmuth-Michael, Wolfgang Bräuer, Olav Hohmeyer, Isabel Kühn and Sigurd Weinreich (1998), Long-Term Integration of Renewable Energy Sources into the European Energy System, Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg

Scenario Design for the Long-term Integration of Renewable Energies into the European Energy System

Bräuer, Wolfgang, Helmuth-Michael Groscurth, Olav Hohmeyer and Sigurd Weinreich (1996), Scenario Design for the Long-term Integration of Renewable Energies into the European Energy System, in: A. Zervos, M. Sala (Eds.), EDIFIR, Florenz, 62-67

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