Balancing Renewable Electricity Energy Storage, Demand Side Management, and Network Extension from an Interdisciplinary Perspective /

• Main Authors: Droste-Franke, Bert (Author), Paal, Boris P. (Author), Rehtanz, Christian (Author), Sauer, Dirk Uwe (Author), Schneider, Jens-Peter (Author), Schreurs, Miranda (Author), Ziesemer, Thomas (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment, Schriftenreihe der Europäischen Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer Entwicklungen Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler GmbH, 40
• Subjects: Engineering.; Energy.; Renewable energy resources.; Ethics.; Power electronics.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and Networks.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Energy, general.

A significant problem of integrating renewable energies into the electricity system is the temporally fluctuating energy production by wind and solar power plants. Thus, in order to meet the ambitious long-term targets on CO2 emission reduction, long-term viable low-carbon options for balancing elec...

Table of Contents:

• Future Perspectives of Electrical Energy Supply
• Existing Energy System Studies
• Demand for Balancing Electrical Energy and Power
• Technologies for Balancing Electrical Energy and Power
• Technology of Electricity Networks, Economical Impacts and Policy
• Legal Analysis of Balancing Strategies
• Analysis of Economic Impacts
• Conclusions and Recommendations.