Special Focus: POWER-GEN
The pace of change looks set to increase as the new package of climate and energy policies unveiled by the European Commission.
Nigel Blackaby describe los acontecimientos y cuestiones clave que deben examinarse en detalle en las conferencias POWER-GEN Europe y Renewable Energy World Europe de este año.
Nigel Blackaby stellt die wichtigsten Entwicklungen und Themen vor, die auf der diesjährigen POWER-GEN Europe und Renewable Energy World Europe detailliert behandelt werden.
Secure power for a sustainable economy
Nigel Blackaby outlines the key developments and issues to be examined in detail at this year’s POWER-GEN Europe and Renewable Energy World Europe.
E
urope’s power sector is experiencing radical and permanent change. T e conventional model of supplying electrical energy to
customers from central power plants via one-way systems is becoming increasingly challenged as a direct result of policies to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and decrease the dependence on energy from fossil fuels. T e pace of change looks set to
increase as the new package of climate and energy policies unveiled by the European Commission in early 2014 drives a fresh wave of clean tech investment. Designed to cut GHGs by 40% against 1990 levels by 2030, the proposed framework includes a binding target for member states to source at least 27% of their energy from renewable sources. T e fi nancial and operational implications of accommodating renewable energy and meeting emissions targets
mean utilities must become a lot smarter in the way that they operate. T is has driven the development of innovative business models and new technologies. Utilities and investors are now focusing
on smart meter rollouts and deployment of technology at a distributed local level rather than making 30-year commitments to large power plants. But there is life in conventional plants yet as co-fi ring technologies allow biomass to be used as fuel alongside coal, with some plants now burning a mixture of both or even converting to biomass completely.
Waste to energy Biomass is derived from living or recently living organisms. It takes carbon out of the atmosphere while it is growing and returns it as it is burned, thus maintaining a closed carbon cycle with no net increase in atmospheric CO2
levels.
More importantly, it means that the by-products of industrial, commercial,
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