How Much Energy Storage can We Afford? On the Need for a Sunflower Society, Aligning Demand with Renewable Supply.

ABSTRACT: The worsening climate crisis impels society to accelerate climate action. The attainable speed of the energy transition is ultimately limited by the available energy to build the replacing renewable infrastructures. Decarbonizing the energy system by replacing dispatchable fossil with variable renewable power requires energy storage to match supply with demand. Current storage technologies are energetically expensive to build and operate, thus the demand for storage shapes the fastest possible transition and the probability to exceed 1.5 °C heating. This study explores and quantifies the effect of demanded storage and its technological progress on the fastest possible transition constrained only by energy. The simulation results using three exemplary storage technologies show that storage

SUBMITTER: Desing H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9113673 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature