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A sustainable energy future: Construction of demand and renewable energy supply scenarios
Author(s) -
Sørensen Bent
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
international journal of energy research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.808
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1099-114X
pISSN - 0363-907X
DOI - 10.1002/er.1375
Subject(s) - deliverable , renewable energy , environmental economics , energy demand , energy (signal processing) , energy supply , matching (statistics) , energy engineering , supply and demand , energy storage , engineering , economics , microeconomics , systems engineering , power (physics) , electrical engineering , statistics , mathematics , physics , quantum mechanics
The creation of energy scenarios, usually describing future situations of interest, involves three steps: (1) Determining the activities in the target society that involves energy of one or another form. Examples of carrying out such an analysis are presented, with end‐use demands distributed on energy forms (qualities) as the deliverable outcome. (2) Determining the available energy resources in the society in question. This is done for renewable energy resources and presented as potential energy supply, with a discussion of the aggressivity of exploiting such sources. Finally (3) Matching demand and supply under consideration of the energy forms needed, with the use of intermediate conversions, storage and transmission and signalling unused surpluses that may be exported from the society in consideration, or deficits that have to be imported. An example of such a matching is presented in an accompanying article. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.