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Expert unveils plan for a European-wide renewable electricity solution
At the fourth Claverton Energy conference, hosted by Wessex Water, Bath, international energy expert Dr Czisch outlined his strategy for a European-wide super grid that would supply all of Europe with entirely renewable electricity. Speaking at the conference Dr Czisch of Kassel University, Germany, also said the move to a renewable electricity system could cost the UK consumer the same as what is currently being paid, and, if there is the political will, he added that it could in theory be achieved in decades.
Dr Czisch, who has conducted research of world weather patterns and European electricity consumption on an hour by hour, day to day basis, says Europe could ensure its energy security, slash its CO2 emissions and have a sustainable, renewable electricity supply by employing a network of wind turbines that stretch across the continent from Siberia to North Africa, where the wind is most constant. This would be supported by biomass, coupled with an extended transmission system and existing hydropower plants providing storage capacity. In Dr Czich’s Czisch’s system wind would account for 70% of the electricity mix. Biomass and hydro would provide storage and back up and the biggest part of the remaining electricity production. All of this is the result of a mathematical optimisation that allows for maximum objectivity in searching for the lowest cost renewable electricity supply for Europe and its neighbourhood. Read More→
UK ENERGY SYSTEM COULD SUFFER SAME FATE AS BANKS, EXPERTS WARN
Posted by: | CommentsIndependent energy experts also set to announce how an entirely renewable electricity supply for Europe is possible and affordable
Representatives of an independent group of over 250 international energy and financial experts are meeting this week to reveal how the UK, Europe and other continents can run on renewable electricity for a similar price to that currently paid for fossil-based electricity. The Claverton Energy Research Group is also warning on the eve of its conference, which runs in Bath from 24-26 Oct, that current world governments’ energy policies are inadequate to meet growing global energy demands, and says serious action needs to be taken now before fossil fuels become in increasingly short supply, arguing the recent oil price spike is merely a foretaste of what could happen in the not too distant future. The group also says that as the North Sea gas and oil output declines and being at the extremity of the gas supply system places the UK particularly at risk and warns there could be energy shortages by as early as 2015 if the current situation continues and planning is neglected. The group says that if the energy infrastructure is left to develop in response to market forces, which is the government’s preferred strategy, it will create a similar crisis to that unfolding in the banking sector.
Conference spokesperson, Dave Andrews, whose 1983 book, IRG Solution, predicted the coming environmental and fuel catastrophe and detailed a method for a coordinated effort from experts to develop workable policies, says: “We have seen recently what a lightly regulated market without proper, well thought-out policies has done for banking and finance, and our evidence indicates the UK energy supply infrastructure, if left to regulate itself, is heading towards a similar crunch.”
As an example, Andrews cites Denmark, where experts working with Danish government decide energy policy, and 90% of the heat created in the process of making electricity in Denmark is used to heat homes and buildings. It is an extremely efficient process with little waste. In the UK, on the other hand, when energy companies make electricity they are allowed to waste the by-product heat in cooling towers (the amount of heat wasted annually in this process is similar to the amount of energy taken out of the North Sea each year) and then energy companies benefit by selling more fossil fuels to consumers to heat their houses, leading to unnecessary fuel imports and rapid depletion of the North Sea. Read More→
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