Sentences with phrase «e.u. supergrid»

We could have a massive supergrid.

Engineers are warning that commitment, determination and a long - term approach by the Government will be crucial if a European Supergrid is to be successful.

«We need to better understand the value in the proposed European Supergrid in managing wind variability versus other options, and taking account of the need to deal with prolonged periods of low wind across Europe.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) makes the warning as the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee today publishes it report A European Supergrid.

Ends Notes to editors: A European Supergrid is an electricity network that could connect generators and consumers from as far apart as Norway down to North Africa.

The IET's submission on a European Supergrid is available at http://www.theiet.org/publicaffairs/submissions/s896.cfm Interview opportunities are available with IET spokespersons.

«Whilst we would strongly support further analysis of cost and benefits, and the design of UK offshore networks to support a future European Supergrid, the realisation of a European Supergrid will be a long - term business.

«The idea of the interconnected E.U. supergrid is not without challenges,» said Nick Jenkins, a professor of renewable energy at Cardiff University.

If those issues are resolved and the North Sea grid does get developed, the idea would be for it in turn to form part of the much - debated European supergrid, supposed to be able to seamlessly transport power from the wind - rich north and sun - soaked south to the center, from where most of the demand originates.

None of these challenges can be solved in isolation but rather require solutions like clean energy supergrids and microgrids that address energy poverty and reduce climate change pollution at the same time.

I'd like to say «no thanks» to the intercontinental electrical supergrids discussed in the «Green grid» feature (14 March, p...

It also has several schemes for transcontinental «supergrids,» including for a grid connection linking Mongolia, China, Russia, South Korea and Japan.

Building even larger supergrids to take advantage of even wider geographical regions, or even the whole planet, could make the need for balancing capacity largely redundant, that's right.

It proposes what it calls a Supergrid.

Such «supergrids» form the core of many ambitious plans for 100 % renewable power production, especially in Europe.

My piece of this puzzle is a high capacity transmission technology (www.elpipes.com), but regardless how it is implemented, a supergrid is important!

Perhaps more interesting, however, is the idea of the «supergrid,» where HVDC lines are used to interconnect entire continents with electricity so that electricity created in one place (such as solar power in the U.S. desert southwest or the Sahara Desert or wind power from offshore wind farms in the windy North Sea) is available wherever it's needed, no matter how far away that electricity is used.

The implication of an integrated European «supergrid».

The Desertec Foundation and the Japan Renewable Energy Foundation (JREF) have entered a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote an Asian supergrid necessary for the expansion of renewable energy in Asia.

A Memorandum of Understanding on the EU supergrid was signed recently by ten European ministers from countries bordering the North Sea, covering the plan to develop an offshore electricity grid enabling interconnection between continental, offshore and British energy resources.

That is obviously some way off, as are proposals for High Voltage Direct Current Supergrid connections around the Pacific rim, linking up a wider range renewable sources, and enabling more effective grid balancing.

Nature published a useful article on the supergrid (2 Dec 2010, Vol 468 pp 624 - 5) which highlighted some of the technical problems with High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) links.

Looking further ahead, the Japan Renewable Energy Foundation (JREF) and the German based Desertec Foundation have teamed up to promote an Asia Supergrid to connect the national grids of Japan, Korea, China, Mongolia and Russia.

The report concludes that the global supply chain engaged in electrical interconnection is already making the necessary investment for the creation of the first legs of a pan-European electricity transmission network, or Supergrid.

Europe, too, is beginning to think seriously of investing in a continental supergrid.

One of the most exciting projects to enhance European energy security and reduce the effects of climate change is the Supergrid.

Janice Massy, «Grand Vision on Paper: Blueprint for a European Supergrid,» Windpower Monthly, December 2008, p. 37; Alok Jha, «Solar Power from Saharan Sun Could Provide Europe's Electricity, Says EU,» Guardian (London), 23 July 2008; David Strahan, «From AC to DC: Going Green with Supergrids,» New Scientist, 14 — 20 March 2009; Paul Rodgers, «Wind - fuelled «Supergrid» Offers Clean Power to Europe,» Independent (London), 25 November 2007.

117 An Irish firm, Mainstream Renewable Power, is proposing to use HVDC undersea cables to build the European supergrid offshore.

A large part of the first stages of the Supergrid is expected to be offshore wind.

For example, when the Supergrid is available if there is no wind in the Mediterranean and Italy is short of power, surplus hydro - power from Norway could be routed to Italy.

The Supergrid would create many more.

The Swedish firm ABB Group, which has just completed a 400 - mile HVDC undersea cable linking Norway and the Netherlands, is partnering with Mainstream Renewable Power in proposing to build the first stages of the supergrid.

We call such an EU planned network the supergrid.

Today's ideas for Asian and European supergrids are driven by the real needs of grid operators.

In this interview published in the latest edition of EWEA's Wind Directions magazine, Ana Aguado, CEO of Friends of the Supergrid, explores how this can be done.

We define the supergrid as «a pan-European transmission network facilitating the integration of large - scale renewable energy and the balancing and transportation of electricity, with the aim of improving the European market».

Sometimes called the Saudi Arabia of solar energy, the Sahara could soon be home to dozens of huge solar farms under a new EU supergrid initiative to supply the continent's electricity needs with renewable energy.

Several companies in Norway have already begun building high voltage DC lines between Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Germany while Airtricity, an Irish wind power company, has plans to build what it calls a «Supergrid» — which would connect offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean and Irish, North and Baltic seas with consumers in northern Europe.

Solar thermal generators could provide electricity and freshwater This EU supergrid proposal is reminiscent of Desertec, a solar scheme to provide up to one sixth of the EU's energy needs which was unveiled late last year by Jordan's Prince Hassan bin Talal.

The key role of the international transmission grid in enabling Europe's ongoing development of renewably generated electricity is clear, and the subject of an offshore «Supergrid» to connect North Sea countries with one another and with Norway's hydro resource (and potentially with a future Mediterranean solar resource) has been discussed in recent issues of REW (see volume 14/2, March - April 2011).

But then, unlike Pöyry, they were all looking across the whole of Europe, North and South - a wider footprint - and in some cases (e.g. Gregor Czich's seminal supergrid work) the windy east and North Africa as well, with a full supergrid network linking in wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, hydro and other renewables.

By contrast, in the «stretch» scenarios, it is assumed that interconnection creates a European market for the UK's excess power, and that it becomes economic to build much more renewable capacity in the UK - with up to a 35GW supergrid interconnection.

But ahead there could be even more dramatic developments, like the huge circular supergrid ring main around the edge of the North Sea, with nodal links to wind farm arrays, as proposed by the Dutch Society for Nature and Environment: www.we-at-sea.org/index.php?keuze=n&nummer=5 5

Therefore, given uncertainty over future markets, in the core scenarios, they do not assume a European market for UK renewable power, and they only have a 3GW supergrid interconnection.

Clearly then, with very large wind programmes you do get diminishing returns and need more backup, but it seems that can be offset to some extent by wider interconnectivity — the supergrid idea, linking up renewables sources across the EU.

HVDC supergrid grids can do that with low losses (2 - 3 % / 1000 km) compared with conventional HVAC grid (up to 10 % / 1000 km).

As yet no UK landfall site has been indicated, but it could include connection nodes along the route with spurs taking power from offshore wind farms and become the backbone of a new North Sea «supergrid»: the UK and eight other North West EU countries have now agreed to explore interconnector links across the North sea and Irish sea.