Energy Blue Print
Archive 2010

Moving from principles to action for energy supply that mitigates against climate change requires a long-term perspective. Energy infrastructure takes time to build up; new energy technologies take time to develop. Policy shifts often also need many years to take effect. In most world regions the transformation from fossil to renewable energies will require additional investment and higher supply costs over about twenty years

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Renewables currently provide 13% of OECD Europe’s energy demand for heat supply, the main contribution coming from the use of biomass.The lack of district heating networks is a severe structural barrier to the large scale utilisation of geothermal and solar thermal energy. In the Energy [R]evolution scenario, renewables provide 62% of OECD Europe’s total heating and cooling demand in 2050.

  • Energy efficiency measures can decrease the current demand for heat supply by 27%, in spite of improving living standards.
  • For direct heating, solar collectors, biomass/biogas as well as geothermal energy are increasingly substituting for fossil fuel-fired systems.

The advanced Energy [R]evolution case introduces efficiency measures e.g. via strict building standards and renewable heating systems around 5 years ahead of the Energy [R]evolution scenario.

  • Energy efficiency: Compared to the Reference scenario, 7,211 PJ/a or 27% are safed by 2050.
  • Solar collectors and geothermal heating systems achieve economies of scale via ambitious support programms 5 to 10 years earlier.The total RES share thereby increases to 42% by 2030 and 92% by 2050.
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