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Sleepless nights? Getting closer

Energy storage and digitalisation are

two areas that are keeping energy

executives awake at night.

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target for 2030, according to analysis

released by WindEurope.

The analysis shows that some EU

organisation.

tives they outline.”

European countries agreed last year

to draw up National Energy and Cli-

mate Plans to ensure Europe delivers

draft Plans.

tip height. This is key, as obtaining

permits for new wind farms is becom-

expensive in many parts of Europe.

detail not only new renewables capac-

ity but also what countries will do

of their operational life between now

sential for the decarbonisation of en-

ergy, because heating and transport

accounts for three quarters of energy

consumption. But the draft Plans pro-

vide few detailed proposals or mea-

sures for electrifying heating and

transport. No European country has

worth of assets globally.

work for Greening the Financial Sys-

amount of analytical work to be done

in order to equip central banks and

supervisors with appropriate tools to

identify, quantify and mitigate cli-

supervisors, including integrating cli-

bility monitoring and micro-supervi-

sion. It also recommends bridging the

publicly available.

transition to a low carbon economy.

Banks have already been taking ac-

tion to reduce carbon-related assets.

In recent months, there has been a

announcing they would either tighten

future, unless they met strict parame-

ters set by the bank. It was the second

to do so in the space of a week.

before. Climate-related sustainable

gen was produced at QUT’s solar cell

facility, located at the Queensland gov-

ernment’s Redlands Research Facility.

“This demonstration of renewable

hydrogen being successfully exported

overseas is an exciting rst step in pro-

ducing and exporting hydrogen at a

commercial scale in the future,”

Queensland Premier Annastacia

Palaszczuk told Parliament during a

new government.

Wind Energy Association (WWEA)

eration from wind, solar, small hydro

and biomass plants. The share of large-

scale hydropower (more than 50 MW)

from around the current 25 per cent.

around 18 GW of installed renewable

action plan creating a favourable en-

vironment for coordination between

various departments in the renewable

energy sector.

During the last week of February,

(CCoE), chaired by the Finance Min-

Ministry of Energy (Power Division)

for all future renewable energy proj-

by the CCoE later.

to raise wind power capacity to 1000

MW by 2020 and 6200 MW by 2030

with a view to optimising the use of

this renewable energy for enhancing

the country’s socio-economic develop-

the inauguration of the 37.6 MW Mui

Dinh wind power plant. Ninh Thuan

has attracted many wind and solar

power projects, with a combined ca-

pacity of 2800 MW. As many as 18

solar projects and three wind power

to go into operation this month.

renewables integration by 2030 and

took an important step to facilitating

that goal with the award of a battery

storage feasibility study to GE’s En-

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Siân Crampsie

German wind turbine maker Senvion

has shored up its nances with a €100

million loan facility from its main lend-

ers and bond holders.

The loan came in mid-April and just

days after Senvion said it had led an

and installed its rst turbine in India.

ing programme in January 2019 and

maintains that it has a fundamentally

sound and strong business model. The

trading environment for wind turbine

makers has been challenging, how-

ever, with strong competition and fall-

ing prices globally.

tion plan includes programmes to re-

focus operations, concentrate on the

most attractive markets, streamline the

product portfolio, improve installation

execution and realise efciency gains

in the service business.

At the end of rst quarter 2019, Sen-

vion’s total installed capacity under

service amounted to 14.1 GW. It main-

tains close to 80 per cent of this capac-

vehicle (EV) and energy markets.

Saft, a subsidiary of French energy

giant Total, has created a joint venture

with Chinese rm Tianneng Energy

Technology (TET) to expand lithium

ion (Li-ion) battery manufacturing in

China.

The joint venture will be 60 per cent

owned by TET and 40 per cent by Saft,

with manufacturing based at the

to ensure security of supply and ex-

ibility. It is unlikely that the CEP will

provide the necessary long-term in-

vestment signals for a cost-efcient

energy transition.

opportunities lying ahead.

buildings become smarter and ef-

electrication agenda?

On 20 and 21 May, in Florence,

sue efforts to stay below 1.5°C. The

The document outlines six scenarios

scenarios where Europe moves to-

wards carbon-neutrality by 2050.

ity by 2050.

implementation of the Clean Energy

points of Member States in terms of

energy mix will also have to be taken

technologies will also be critical.

cent of all nal energy consumption

has to be electric. To get there, elec-

ables. By 2045, the electricity gener-

ated from RES is indeed expected to

be over 80 per cent.

total capital investment of €89-111

in power grids will amount to around

€90-100 billion.

Over the past few years, there have

been efforts to establish a single Eu-

ments. Some headway has certainly

been made. For instance, the 2009

Third Energy Package introduced

streamline system operation.

nisms, generation taxes and retail

price regulation.

The recently adopted Clean Energy

level of integration in the European

ñete, EU Commissioner for Climate

Action and Energy, celebrated the

agreement, saying: “The agreement

cost-effective way to ensure secure

and affordable supplies to all EU citi-

zens. The new rules will create more

competition and will allow consum-

energy transition.”

The functioning of short-term mar-

kets is also signicantly improved by

the CEP. It notably: ensures the non-

where variable RES play an increas-

ing role. Market players and consum-

vide exibility and be remunerated

supply situation) being made at both

has been emphasized in the two last

editions of ‘ACER Market Monitor-

ing Report’ that interconnectors have

Therefore, the electricity regulation

of the CEP introduced an obligation

on Transmission System Operators to

allocate a minimum of 70 per cent of

to maximise the benets of market

if this ‘one-size-ts-all’ approach will

ensure the most efcient use of inter-

connection capacity.

The CEP recognises the central role

of distribution system operators

90 per cent of new renewables being

porting the transition. The integration

access to exibility through new

bution system operation.

pean organisation for distribution

system operators will contribute to

should be entitled to maintaining their

rights and obligations as nal con-

sumers. Some clarications will still

already have some communities in

and Member States and national regu-

tric will monitor the implementation,

for example we are currently actively

lar for the rst time in ve key Eu-

crease the value of their gas red

gas turbine eet.

eets to create a solution for opera-

stom, it also represents the rst

of gas [red generation] in Europe

be able to compensate for uctuat-

we came up with the high efciency

to make them [the GT26] competi-

tive in the market. This is the rst

over the years to drive efciency

the higher ring temperature in the

load efciency by 2 per cent. Based

Meanwhile, efciency in part-load

upgrade. The unit at Eneld has

Increasing the efciency will allow

Eneld and two at Grain power sta-

results from Eneld but we are ne-

Junior Isles