Historic and potential technology transition paths of grid battery storage: Co-evolution of energy grid, electric mobility and batteries

Manuel Baumann ()

No 02/2015, IET Working Papers Series from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, IET/CICS.NOVA-Interdisciplinary Centre on Social Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology

Abstract: Scarcity of fuels, changes in environmental policy and in society increased the interest in generating electric energy from renewable energy sources (RES) for a sustainable energy supply in the future. The main problem of RES as solar and wind energy, which represent a main pillar of this transition, is that they cannot supply constant power output. This results inter alia in an increased demand of backup technologies as batteries to assure electricity system safety. The diffusion of energy storage technologies is highly dependent on the energy system and transport transition pathways which might lead to a replacement or reconfiguration of embedded socio-technical practices and regimes (by creating new standards or dominant designs, changing regulations, infrastructure and user patterns). The success of this technology is dependent on hardly predictable future technical advances, actor preferences, development of competing technologies and designs, diverging interests of actors, future cost efficiencies, environmental performance, the evolution of market demand and design and evolution of our society.

Keywords: Renewable energy; Electric energy; Transition pathways; Batteries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O31 R40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2015-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ene, nep-reg and nep-tre
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://run.unl.pt/handle/10362/16403 First version, 2015 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ieu:wpaper:61

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IET Working Papers Series from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, IET/CICS.NOVA-Interdisciplinary Centre on Social Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by António Brandão Moniz ().