L R AS Published on Tuesday 5 April 2022 - n° 400 - Categories:various sectors

Encouraging the installation of photovoltaic systems n° 2 (Wärtsilä)

According to energy company Wärtsilä, Europe can halve the amount of gas in its energy mix bymix by 2030 and cut its energy costs by 323 billion euros if it rapidly accelerates the deployment of renewable energies.

For the company, Europe's current energy crisis has "provided the clearest signal that countries need to accelerate the shift away from baseload gas to renewables, supported by balancing technologies, at breakneck speed".

Two scenarios have been drawn up. The most ambitious envisages a doubling of renewable energy deployment to 80 GW per year, to reach almost two-thirds (61%) of renewable electricity by 2030. European countries could halve gas consumption in their electricity systems, from 1,546 TWh in 2021 to 745 TWh in 2030. This would translate into savings of €323 billion ($356 million) for the electricity system. Cumulative savings of €98 billion could be achieved by 2025.

This means that the EU needs to more than double its deployment every year until 2030.

Wärtsilä believes that all the technologies and expertise needed to accelerate the deployment of renewable energies are in place. to do so, describing calls for a reversal of decarbonisation and a return to fossil fuels as "illogical".

Wärtsilä presented a list of seven actions:

- coordinate actions that can accelerate the scaling up of innovation,

- give priority to renewable energy permits, which the European Commission is already examining,

- encourage investment in energy storage and balancing technologies,

- set up cross-border infrastructure projects,

- leveraging public investment with private capital,

- invest in green hydrogen

- electrify key industries.

The least ambitious forecasts that Europe would add 40 GW of renewables per year, leading to a 13% drop in gas consumption for electricity generation and enabling renewables to account for 50% of the continent's energy mix by 2030. Given that Europe installed 37 GW of wind and solar power in 2021, this scenario is highly likely to come true, especially in light of the war in Ukraine.

https://www.pv-tech.org/europe-could-halve-gas-use-save-us350bn-by-2030-by-doubling-renewables-deployment/

PV Tech of 29 March 2022

Editor's note: Another "specialist" in "it's enough...", "we have to...". He is only slightly more realistic than IRENA. Doubling renewable energy installations in Europe by 2030 is conceivable. But it doesn't say whether this means a steady increase over the decade or whether we need to go from 2020 (40 GW) to 2023 (80 GW).

I hope that Wärtsilä will apply the halving of its energy consumption to itself. He will have to explain to us how he will run his computers, his vehicles, his manufacturing plants and the heating systems in his buildings in winter with half the energy. Only then will we be able to believe him.

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