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New options are needed to reduce the impact of motor vehicles on climate change and declining fossil fuel resources. Cars which are fueled by hydrogen could be a sustainable method of transportation if suitable technologies can be devised to produce hydrogen in an environmentally benign manner along with the provision of the necessary fueling infrastructure. This paper assesses size, space, and cost requirements of bioreactors as a decentralized option to supply hydrogen powered cars with biohydrogen produced from algae or cyanobacteria on a theoretical basis. Decentralized supply of biohydrogen could help to reduce the problems that hydrogen cars face regarding market penetration. A feasibility study for decentralized biohydrogen production is conducted, taking the quantity of hydrogen which is needed to fuel current hydrogen cars into account. While this technology is, in theory, feasible, sizes, and costs of such reactors are currently too high for widespread adoption. Thus, more R&D is needed to close the gap and to approach marketability.
Phasing out coal in the German energy sector : interdependencies, challenges and potential solutions
(2019)
Relevant aspects of the options and requirements for reducing and phasing out coal-fired power generation have been under debate for several years. This process has produced a range of strategies, analyses and arguments, outlining how coal use in the energy sector could be reduced and phased out in the planned time frame, and determining structural policy measures suitable to support this. This Coal Report studies the existing analyses and provides an overview of the state of debate. It is intended to provide information on facts and contexts, present the advantages and disadvantages of individual courses of action, and reveal the respective scientific backgrounds. It strives to take a scientific and independent approach, and present facts in concise language, making it easy to follow for readers who are not experts in the field, without excessive abridgements or provocative statements.
Today more than 45 % of all energy-related CO2 emissions come from burning coal. Thus, reducing CO2 emissions from coal use is a necessity for reaching the targets of the Paris Agreement. This will not only pose challenges for coal consumers (restructuring of the energy system), but also for countries whose economy is strongly depending on the production of coal. This paper examines the role of coal in three countries, which are or were in recent years among the top coal exporters: Indonesia, Colombia and Vietnam. Understanding challenges and possible transition pathways in these countries will help to develop global strategies to reduce CO2 emissions from coal in the short to mid-term.
Geschäftsmodelle zur Einbindung dezentraler Anlagen auf Haushaltsebene in Virtuelle Kraftwerke
(2019)
Virtuelle Kraftwerke (VKW) bieten die Möglichkeit, den steigenden Flexibilitätsbedarf des Stromsystems durch die Bündelung dezentraler Erzeugungsanlagen, Speicher und steuerbarer Verbraucher zu decken. Insbesondere die Hebung noch unerschlossener dezentraler Flexibilitätspotenziale auf Haushaltsebene, die durch die Digitalisierung und die Verfügbakeit smarter Technologien ermöglicht wird, eröffnet voraussichtlich zukünftige Geschäftsfelder. In diesem Artikel werden die zu erwartenden technologischen und ökonomischen Entwicklungen skizziert und darauf aufbauend ein Analyserahmen für Geschäftsmodelle Virtueller Kraftwerke vorgestellt.
Research on sustainability transitions has expanded rapidly in the last ten years, diversified in terms of topics and geographical applications, and deepened with respect to theories and methods. This article provides an extensive review and an updated research agenda for the field, classified into nine main themes: understanding transitions; power, agency and politics; governing transitions; civil society, culture and social movements; businesses and industries; transitions in practice and everyday life; geography of transitions; ethical aspects; and methodologies. The review shows that the scope of sustainability transitions research has broadened and connections to established disciplines have grown stronger. At the same time, we see that the grand challenges related to sustainability remain unsolved, calling for continued efforts and an acceleration of ongoing transitions. Transition studies can play a key role in this regard by creating new perspectives, approaches and understanding and helping to move society in the direction of sustainability.
Das Kopernikus-Projekt "ENavi" hat im Forschungsschwerpunkt "Transformation des Stromsystems" untersucht, wie der Stromsektor zur Erreichung der Klimaziele beitragen kann. Aktuell gilt es, den Kohleausstieg ökonomisch effizient und ökologisch zu organisieren. Seine Ergebnisse hat das Team der von der Bundesregierung eingesetzten Kommission für Wachstum, Strukturwandel und Beschäftigung ("Kohlekommission") präsentiert.
In der Dissertation wird eine Methodik entwickelt, welche die Berechnung des Redispatcheinsatzes im deutschen Übertragungsnetz ermöglicht. Dabei wird die Auswirkungen einer Integration der Flexibilität aus dezentralen Anlagen in das elektrische Energiesystem dargestellt. Durch die Integration von dezentralen Flexibilitäten können geringere Brennstoff- und CO2-Zertifikatskosten bei relativ konstanten CO2-Emissionen erreicht werden. Bei einem Redispatcheinsatz, welcher die Leistungserhöhung aus konventionellen thermischen Kraftwerken weitgehend vermeidet, kann bei der Berücksichtigung dezentraler Flexibilitäten bis zu 99 Prozent der benötigten Redispatcherhöhung aus konventionellen Kraftwerken mit Hilfe dezentraler Alternativen ersetzt werden. Diese Übernahme der Redispatchaufgaben durch dezentrale Anlagen ist allerdings mit einer signifikanten Erhöhung der Redispatchkosten verbunden.
The Paris Agreement introduces long-term strategies as an instrument to inform progressively more ambitious emission reduction objectives, while holding development goals paramount in the context of national circumstances. In the lead up to the twenty-first Conference of the Parties, the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project developed mid-century low-emission pathways for 16 countries, based on an innovative pathway design framework. In this Perspective, we describe this framework and show how it can support the development of sectorally and technologically detailed, policy-relevant and country-driven strategies consistent with the Paris Agreement climate goal. We also discuss how this framework can be used to engage stakeholder input and buy-in; design implementation policy packages; reveal necessary technological, financial and institutional enabling conditions; and support global stocktaking and increasing of ambition.
