20.04.2020 Views

VGB POWERTECH 11 (2019)

VGB PowerTech - International Journal for Generation and Storage of Electricity and Heat. Issue 11 (2019). Technical Journal of the VGB PowerTech Association. Energy is us! Power plant operation: legal & technology. Pumped hydro storage. Latent heat storages.

VGB PowerTech - International Journal for Generation and Storage of Electricity and Heat. Issue 11 (2019).
Technical Journal of the VGB PowerTech Association. Energy is us!
Power plant operation: legal & technology. Pumped hydro storage. Latent heat storages.

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

A journey through 100 years <strong>VGB</strong> | <strong>VGB</strong> <strong>POWERTECH</strong> 1 (2002)<br />

Supply Security<br />

Towards a European Strategy for the<br />

Security of Energy Supply<br />

Held at the <strong>VGB</strong> Congress “Power Plants 2001” in Brussels/Belgium<br />

on <strong>11</strong>th October 2001<br />

Kurzfassung<br />

Gesicherte Energieversorgung –<br />

auf dem Weg zu einer europäischen<br />

Strategie<br />

Authors<br />

P. de Sampaio Nunes<br />

Director Conventional Energies,<br />

Directorate General for Energy and<br />

Transport, European Commission,<br />

Brussels/Belgium.<br />

Unser Lebensstil hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten<br />

durch die Elektrizität deutlich verändert.<br />

Eine Reihe von Innovationen, wie vollkommen<br />

moderne Formen des Transports, der<br />

Kommunikation, des Handels, der Diplomatie,<br />

der Medizin – diese Liste ließe sich beliebig<br />

fortführen –, wurden durch Elektrizität möglich.<br />

Der Beitrag, den Strom zur zukünftigen<br />

Energieversorgung leistet, ist von entscheidender<br />

Bedeutung.<br />

In den letzten 10 Jahren konnten wir enorme<br />

Veränderungen innerhalb der rechtlichen<br />

Strukturen der europäischen Energiemärkte<br />

beobachten. Wir haben auch gesehen, wie<br />

sich die EVU organisieren und durch gegenseitigen<br />

Austausch Innovationen auf den Weg<br />

bringen. Versorger und Konsumenten finden<br />

gemeinsame Ziele und Interessen. Wenn wir<br />

das Thema “Gesicherte Energieversorgung –<br />

auf dem Weg zu einer europäischen Strategie”<br />

betrachten, sind auch Veränderungen auf<br />

übergeordneter Ebene zu berücksichtigen. Der<br />

Energie- und der Strommarkt sind eng mit<br />

politischen Ereignissen und Entscheidungen<br />

verknüpft. Unsere Möglichkeiten, die Herausforderungen<br />

der Energieversorgung anzunehmen,<br />

sind zumindest teilweise davon abhängig,<br />

wie wir die Umstrukturierung in der<br />

Gesellschaft und der Wirtschaft meistern.<br />

Diese Veränderungen werden im vorliegenden<br />

Beitrag angesprochen, mit Einblick in die<br />

Vorgehensweise der Kommission im Hinblick<br />

auf diese Veränderungen.<br />

Die Stromversorgung und generell die Energieversorgung<br />

sind eng mit anderen Aspekten<br />

verbunden. Die Liberalisierung der Märkte,<br />

grenzübergreifender Handel, der Einsatz sauberer<br />

Umwandlungsverfahren auf der Basis erneuerbarer<br />

Energieträger, die Verminderung<br />

der Emissionen und die Verbesserung der Wirkungsgrade<br />

sind Themen, mit denen sich die<br />

EVU auseinandersetzen müssen, und die weit<br />

über die reine Versorgungsaufgabe hinaus<br />

gehen.<br />

Wenn wir die zukünftige europäische Strategie<br />

und die gesicherte Energieversorgung betrachten,<br />

bin ich überzeugt, dass die Stromindustrie<br />

die anstehenden Aufgaben zuverlässig<br />

und sicher angehen wird. Aus diesem<br />

Grunde wird Strom bei der sicheren Energieversorgung<br />

Europas an Bedeutung gewinnen<br />

und die Elektrizitätsindustrie eine wichtige<br />

Rolle bei der zukünftigen und nachhaltigen<br />

Energieversorgung spielen.<br />

Introduction<br />

I am delighted to see how this congress has<br />

brought together experience from throughout<br />

Europe and beyond. This confirms in my<br />

mind the gradual internationalisation of Europe’s<br />

energy markets. The last ten years<br />

have seen significant changes in the legal<br />

structures of Europe’s energy markets, and I<br />

will come back to this presently. But we have<br />

also seen a transformation in the way energy<br />

operators organise themselves, talk to one another<br />

and stimulate innovation. Producers<br />

and consumers alike are finding common<br />

purpose and common interests.<br />

This brings me to the theme of my speech today.<br />

For, when we look “towards a European<br />

strategy for the security of energy supply”,<br />

we need to consider changes in the wider<br />

context. Energy and electricity markets are<br />

closely intertwined with wider political<br />

events. Our ability to address challenges in<br />

energy supply depends at least partially on<br />

our success in managing wider changes in society<br />

and the economy. In the course of my<br />

lecture today, I will elaborate on these<br />

changes and challenges and offer some insight<br />

into the approach which the European<br />

Commission is considering in order to address<br />

these challenges.<br />

Challenges<br />

First may I begin by recalling the Commission’s<br />

Green Paper which shares the title of<br />

today’s lecture. Most if not all of you will be<br />

aware of the content of the Green Paper.<br />

Many of you have no doubt participated in<br />

the ongoing debate on the Green Paper.<br />

Could I take this opportunity to thank those<br />

of you who have taken part – we have been<br />

very pleased by the response. Apart from<br />

some 120 written submissions, my colleagues<br />

and I have been invited to around<br />

270 events within Europe and beyond in<br />

order to discuss the Green Paper. Add to this<br />

the many thousands of visits to the Green<br />

Paper web site every month, and you have a<br />

sense of how wide the debate is.<br />

The Commission’s Green Paper, you will recall,<br />

crystallises the fundamental dilemmas<br />

facing policy makers in the energy field today.<br />

— Growing energy demand is increasing<br />

our demand for fossil fuels. We estimate<br />

that by 2030 fossil fuels could account<br />

for 86 % of our energy needs in Europe.<br />

And by then the EU will need to import<br />

at least 90 % of our oil and coal and 60<br />

% of our gas.<br />

— We are failing to exploit our indigenous<br />

and renewable sources of energy. Instead<br />

of moving towards our stated objective<br />

of a 12 % share for renewables in the<br />

energy balance, the European Union is<br />

stagnating around the 6 % mark.<br />

— We are missing out on opportunities for<br />

energy saving. It is estimated that 18 %,<br />

that is almost one fifth of the EU’s energy<br />

use could be saved using available technologies.<br />

At the same time, we need to take urgent action<br />

in order to drastically reduce our<br />

emissions of CO 2 . Instead of which, our CO 2<br />

emissions are still rising, and energy use is<br />

largely to blame. If current trends continue,<br />

the EU risks increasing its emissions by 8 %<br />

by 2010. In fact, our objective is to cut them<br />

by 8 %.<br />

— Finally, although the EU is the world’s<br />

second largest energy consumer, our influence<br />

on the international energy stage<br />

is relatively limited. This indicates, in our<br />

view, that our existing structures for international<br />

collaboration with our<br />

partners are inadequate.<br />

When we look at the picture for an enlarged<br />

European Union, of up to 28 member states,<br />

these trends are even more striking. It is true<br />

that some countries have progressed more in<br />

some areas than others, but, overall, the same<br />

challenges re-emerge – growing demand,<br />

growing dependence on imported fuel and<br />

growing emissions of greenhouse gases.<br />

In the Commission’s view, this combination<br />

considerably weakens the security of our<br />

<strong>VGB</strong> PowerTech 1/2002 27<br />

71

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!