The energy turnaround: Perhaps seeming paradoxical at first? Current positions. E-Book

Dieter Mende

• Herausgeber: Books on Demand
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Seitenzahl: 81

Beschreibung

The book introduces you to the numerous tangents of the energy transition with exciting subject matter. At the same time, you will learn about what are probably the most exciting developments in the modern world with the challenges of today; on the one hand with a view to maintaining energy supply security for people, and on the other hand with a view to the many opportunities for future generations. The book explains the current positions on the energy transition, explains why the energy transition may initially seem paradoxical and explains the tangents of the energy transition. The book shows the comprehensive link between the energy transition and environmental protection against increasing climate change. The book shows the booming global image of the energy transition. The success of the energy transition depends crucially on the start and speed of implementation of defined goals, which requires determination and regional identity with the emerging fields of action. In the course of the book, the initially tempting-sounding statements are also confronted with the claim and the reality. The energy turnaround is made comprehensible by presenting the efforts from a wide variety of perspectives. Let yourself be inspired and excited by the numerous opportunities that the energy transition offers.

Leseprobe

If someone tells you that they can explain the energy transition to you within a few minutes, then you should be extremely skeptical.

Thinking EU/nationally and acting locally is not a contradiction, but rather a dynamic energy policy.

Dieter Mende

Table of Contents

Prologue

Energy transition: The current position

The energy transition: perhaps seemingly paradoxical at first:

Energy 3 leap

full electrification

copper plate

overload

grid parity

cost analysis

system-inherent

Energy transition: explaining the tangents:

Sustainable energy generation

decarbonization

bridging technologies

emissions

immissions

tipping points

residual load

sustainable energy infrastructure

two-degree target

Energy transition: the comprehensive bracket with environmental protection against climate change

The booming global image of the energy transition

The author

Prologue

My motivation for creating reports and books is, on the one hand, a passion for highlighting the opportunities and possibilities in the potential grid of the energy transition with hydrogen as an energy carrier and, on the other hand, the ambition to build and expand a hydrogen infrastructure with the advertising of cross-industry service providers, with the identification of sustainable contributions and with the resulting and complementary skills.

The target group of this book is broadly diversified; the book is aimed at readers who are less interested in technology, as well as students and teachers, politicians, entrepreneurs and technicians.

In order for this to succeed, the basis is created at the beginning of the book so that everyone can recognize the initial situation of the energy transition.

The course of the book is therefore designed in such a way that it does not demand too much basic technical understanding from readers who are less interested in technology, so that the course of the book does not appear boring for entrepreneurs and technicians.

As a result, the first chapter should provide readers with a common basic understanding of the energy transition. The second chapter gives readers a holistic insight from the sources, the regenerative paths of energy generation, to the sinks, the mobile and stationary applications.

Lassen sie sich davon begeistern, dass Veränderungen sehr viele Chancen ermöglichen, dass Veränderungen ohne Übertreibung sehr spannend sind und dass Veränderungen viel Begeisterung für die Zukunft auslösen können.

Please do not allow yourself to be unsettled by the deliberately created confusion on the part of the lobby against an energy transition, as the lobby against an energy transition deliberately presents incomplete arguments.

The energy transition must be viewed holistically so that the interrelationships that have a significant influence on climate change and environmental impacts can be recognized.

The energy transition must be viewed holistically so that the sound technological expertise and infrastructure know-how can be optimally integrated into the existing energy markets and can also expand the existing energy markets.

In the course of the book, you will also learn about what are certainly the most exciting developments in the modern world with the challenges of today; on the one hand with a view to maintaining the security of energy supply for people, and on the other hand with a view to the many opportunities for future generations.

The energy transition is much more than just increasing the use of renewable energies!

The energy transition is a job engine.

If the energy transition is to succeed and if the agreed climate targets are to be met, there is no alternative to the immediate expansion of renewable energies.

Energy transition: The current position

Since the publication of the EU climate reports, there has been international consensus that the energy transition is important. However, the paths of the energy transition are still a trigger for sometimes heated discussions today.

Even with the expansion of the grids for electricity in the direction of "copper plate Germany", full electrification has an implementation problem: the important energy storage systems are missing.

The stability of the electricity grids depends on the balance between the supply of electrical energy and the demand for electrical energy.

In addition to an increasing energy mix, the energy transition is also the transition from bound energy, bound in coal, oil and natural gas, to an increasingly regeneratively generated electrical energy.

With the planned wind turbines alone, we are already in the gigawatt range of electrical energy.

Batteries alone are no longer an option for storage on this scale.

The advocates of full electrification have not only moved out of the hedgehog position in view of the very high costs of grid expansion and are more willing to talk, because in many places a holistic view of the energy transition in connection with climate change and environmental protection has set in.

The energy transition must be viewed holistically, from the source (the regenerative paths of energy generation) to the sinks (the mobile and stationary applications). With Power-to-X, the energy transition links the previously separately considered paths of electricity with the paths of gases, as well as with the paths of heat generation and with the paths of fuel production. The energy carrier hydrogen is the comprehensive bracket for the success of sector coupling.

However, the energy transition is also producing numerous intelligent solutions through digitalization.

Not only do smart grids support the opportunities of sector coupling with hydrogen, smart applications can also lead to a paradigm shift with a view to the applications.

Currently, in grid centrality, power plants follow the energy demand in the electrical grids with energy generation. With digitalization, however, applications can also follow a spontaneous, higher supply of regeneratively generated energy in the grids by programming those systems that do not have to run continuously.

Two classic examples in the private sector could be:

g. the washing machine, which is programmed before leaving the house and starts primarily when the radio impulse comes from the network operator, which starts secondarily when a programmed target time is to be met.

g. the storage heater, which charges primarily with electricity when a particularly large amount of "green electricity" is being fed in by the wind and/or the sun, which charges with electricity at other times.

For a very long time, the energy infrastructure in Germany was characterized by grid centrality with a focus on the generation of electricity in power plants. The increasing decentralized and renewable energy generation resulting from the energy transition does not have to contradict this existing energy infrastructure; on the contrary, the hydrogen user center h2herten shows that the energy transition is a supplement to the current energy infrastructure.

With the energy transition, virtual power plants are being created by coupling renewable energy generation through digitalization.

The h2herten hydrogen user center can be operated autonomously as a stand-alone solution, but the center can also be operated in parallel with the grid and thus actively participate in grid operation.

The energy transition creates the potential for many self-sufficient systems to be combined in the electrical energy grid to form a mesh, similar to a fishing net, whereby these meshes in turn complement each other in the electrical energy grid. With grid management, intelligent, virtual power plants can be created that manage the stabilization of the grids and also ensure the security of energy supply.

The course of the book shows numerous opportunities arising from the energy transition, and the course of the book also confirms the energy transition as an internationally booming job engine.

The course of the book names persistent misinformation in the subject of the energy transition and shows you with the top structured course how you can actually evaluate the energy transition even as a layperson, how you can expose the deliberately incomplete or even deliberately false statements in the subject of the energy transition.

We have often heard the statement that we first have to find out whether electromobility with batteries or electromobility with fuel cells will prevail. It is true that electric mobility with batteries and electric mobility with fuel cells complement each other, just as combustion mobility with petrol and combustion mobility with diesel currently complement each other.

Nobody would think of questioning the simultaneity of diesel and petrol as a fuel for combustion mobility. So why the unnecessary discussion about the simultaneity of battery and fuel cell vehicles?

Because the lobbyists of the coal industry and the mineral oil industry are very well paid for their lobbying work with the aim of slowing down competing energy products in the energy markets for as long as possible.

No less often heard were the statements that security of supply with electrical energy can only be possible with grid centrality by maintaining energy generation by the power plants.

It is true that renewably generated energy with hydrogen not only enables decentralized stand-alone solutions, but also enables grid-parallel systems that can be coupled with intelligent grid management, including virtual power plants.

Just as often heard were the statements that Germany is an energy importing country and that energy in the form of hydrogen will also have to be sourced from abroad in the future because Germany cannot provide enough renewable energy of its own. It is true that hydrogen from abroad with its transportation infrastructure is considerably more expensive; every kilowatt hour of electricity generated in Germany helps to reduce energy costs. With the expansion of renewable energy generation through modern wind turbines in combination with the generation of electrical energy through modern solar systems, a considerable proportion of hydrogen production will be able to take place in Germany.

At the same time, you will experience what are probably the most exciting developments in the modern world with the challenges of today; on the one hand with a view to maintaining energy supply security for people, and on the other hand with a view to the numerous opportunities for future generations.