August 2015

Technology Roadmap: Geothermal Heat and Power (External Content)

Submitted by Aracuba Editor on Wed, 08/26/2015 - 6:00am
The technology roadmap for Geothermal Heat and Power offers a strategic plan to maximise deployment of these energy resources by 2050. It projects that 1,400 TWh of electricity per year could come from geothermal power by 2050, up from 67 TWh at present. ...

Technology Roadmap: Smart Grids (External Content)

Submitted by Aracuba Editor on Mon, 08/17/2015 - 3:34am
Smart grids can play an important role in addressing increasingly untenable economic, environmental, and social trends in the supply and use of energy. By enabling increased awareness of system operation and better informed participation by electricity us ...

Technology Roadmap: Biofuels for Transport (External Content)

Submitted by Aracuba Editor on Mon, 08/17/2015 - 3:25am
The production of transport fuels from biomass, in either liquid or gaseous form, holds the promise of a low net fossil-energy requirement and low life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, there are many hurdles to the expansion of biofuels prod ...

Harnessing Variable Renewables (External Content)

Submitted by Aracuba Editor on Mon, 08/17/2015 - 3:19am
Power systems must be actively managed to maintain a steady balance between supply and demand. This is already a complex task as demand varies continually. But what happens when supply becomes more variable and less certain, as with some renewable sources ...

Technology Roadmap Solar heating and cooling (External Content)

Submitted by Aracuba Editor on Mon, 08/17/2015 - 3:13am
The solar heating and cooling (SHC) roadmap outlines a pathway for solar energy to supply almost one sixth (16.5 EJ) of the world’s total energy use for both heating and cooling by 2050.  This would save some 800 megatonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissio ...

Technology Roadmap Hydropower (External Content)

Submitted by Aracuba Editor on Mon, 08/17/2015 - 3:09am
The technology roadmap for Hydropower details action needed from policy makers to allow hydroelectric production to double, and addresses necessary conditions, including resolving environmental issues and gaining public acceptance. Hydropower could double ...

Technology Roadmap: Bioenergy for Heat and Power (External Content)

Submitted by Aracuba Editor on Mon, 08/17/2015 - 3:05am
The Technology Roadmap Bioenergy for Heat and Power highlights the importance of bioenergy in providing heat in the buildings sector and in industry, and shows what contribution it could make to meeting steadily growing world electricity demand. The criti ...

Medium-Term Renewable Energy Market Report 2012 (External Content)

Submitted by webmaster@aracuba.info on Mon, 08/17/2015 - 2:56am
This Medium-Term Renewable Energy Market Report 2012 provides a key benchmark, assessing the current state of play of renewable energy, identifying the main drivers and barriers to deployment and projecting renewable energy electricity capacity and genera ...

World Energy Investment Outlook - Special Report (External Content)

Submitted by Aracuba Editor on Mon, 08/17/2015 - 2:11am
Questions about the reliability, affordability and sustainability of our energy future often boil down to questions about investment. But are investors ready to commit capital in a fast-changing energy world? This complimentary special report in the World ...

X PRIZE Workshop: Grand Challenges in Energy

Submitted by webmaster@aracuba.info on Mon, 08/10/2015 - 3:02am
In 2004, the Ansari X PRIZE for suborbital spaceflight captured the public's imagination and revolutionized an industry, leveraging a $10M prize purse into over $100M in innovation.

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