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Balancing Renewable Electricity

Energy Storage, Demand Side Management, and Network Extension from an Interdisciplinary Perspective

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Authors:
  1. Bert Droste-Franke

    1. Europäische Akademie GmbH, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany

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  2. Boris P. Paal

    1. , Institut für Medien- und Informationsrec, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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  3. Christian Rehtanz

    1. , Institute of Power Systems and Power, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

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  4. Dirk Uwe Sauer

    1. , Lehrstuhl und Institut für Strom-, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

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  5. Jens-Peter Schneider

    1. Inst. für Medien- und Informationsrecht, Abt. II:Öffentliches Recht, Europäisches, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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  6. Miranda Schreurs

    1. Otto Sur Inst. of Political Science, Environmental Policy Research Centre, Freie Universiät Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  7. Thomas Ziesemer

    1. UNU Maastricht Economic and Social, Research Inst. on Innovation and, United Nations University, Maastricht, Netherlands

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  • Introduces technologies that can balance electricity in energy systems
  • Describes current policies and political developments
  • The main challenges for balancing technologies and processes within a system including renewable energies are summarised and recommendations made
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment (ETHICSSCI, volume 40)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xlviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Bert Droste-Franke, Boris P. Paal, Christian Rehtanz, Dirk Uwe Sauer, Jens-Peter Schneider, Miranda Schreurs et al.
    Pages 1-8

  3. Future Perspectives of Electrical Energy Supply

    • Bert Droste-Franke, Boris P. Paal, Christian Rehtanz, Dirk Uwe Sauer, Jens-Peter Schneider, Miranda Schreurs et al.
    Pages 9-36

  4. Existing Energy System Studies

    • Bert Droste-Franke, Boris P. Paal, Christian Rehtanz, Dirk Uwe Sauer, Jens-Peter Schneider, Miranda Schreurs et al.
    Pages 37-59

  5. Demand for Balancing Electrical Energy and Power

    • Bert Droste-Franke, Boris P. Paal, Christian Rehtanz, Dirk Uwe Sauer, Jens-Peter Schneider, Miranda Schreurs et al.
    Pages 61-82

  6. Technologies for Balancing Electrical Energy and Power

    • Bert Droste-Franke, Boris P. Paal, Christian Rehtanz, Dirk Uwe Sauer, Jens-Peter Schneider, Miranda Schreurs et al.
    Pages 83-142

  7. Technology of Electricity Networks and Economical Impacts

    • Bert Droste-Franke, Boris P. Paal, Christian Rehtanz, Dirk Uwe Sauer, Jens-Peter Schneider, Miranda Schreurs et al.
    Pages 143-161

  8. Economic Analysis and Policy

    • Bert Droste-Franke, Boris P. Paal, Christian Rehtanz, Dirk Uwe Sauer, Jens-Peter Schneider, Miranda Schreurs et al.
    Pages 163-178

  9. Legal Analysis of Balancing Strategies

    • Bert Droste-Franke, Boris P. Paal, Christian Rehtanz, Dirk Uwe Sauer, Jens-Peter Schneider, Miranda Schreurs et al.
    Pages 179-212

  10. Challenges and Recommendations

    • Bert Droste-Franke, Boris P. Paal, Christian Rehtanz, Dirk Uwe Sauer, Jens-Peter Schneider, Miranda Schreurs et al.
    Pages 213-222

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 223-253
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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 normativeaims 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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Europäische Akademie GmbH, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany

    Bert Droste-Franke

  • , Institut für Medien- und Informationsrec, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Boris P. Paal

  • , Institute of Power Systems and Power, Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Christian Rehtanz

  • , Lehrstuhl und Institut für Strom-, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

    Dirk Uwe Sauer

  • Inst. für Medien- und Informationsrecht, Abt. II:Öffentliches Recht, Europäisches, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Jens-Peter Schneider

  • Otto Sur Inst. of Political Science, Environmental Policy Research Centre, Freie Universiät Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Miranda Schreurs

  • UNU Maastricht Economic and Social, Research Inst. on Innovation and, United Nations University, Maastricht, Netherlands

    Thomas Ziesemer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Balancing Renewable Electricity

  • Book Subtitle: Energy Storage, Demand Side Management, and Network Extension from an Interdisciplinary Perspective

  • Authors: Bert Droste-Franke, Boris P. Paal, Christian Rehtanz, Dirk Uwe Sauer, Jens-Peter Schneider, Miranda Schreurs, Thomas Ziesemer

  • Series Title: Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25157-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-25156-6Published: 02 February 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43641-3Published: 23 February 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-25157-3Published: 21 January 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1860-4803

  • Series E-ISSN: 1860-4811

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XLVIII, 256

  • Topics: Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks, Renewable and Green Energy, Ethics, Energy, general

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