Abstract
Global warming promotes a profound transformation from fossil fuel to renewable energy in key sectors such as heat, transport and power. It is reported that there is an absolute increase of ~0.2 % per year in the share of renewable energy in the total final energy consumption in recent years. However, to keep the global temperature rise well below 2 oC, as stated in the Paris Agreement, the renewable energy share needs to be raised from 19 % in 2017 to 65 % by 2050, indicating an annual increase ~7 times larger than it has been.1 With the rapid development of renewable energy, its intermittency nature becomes a rising concern, which not only brings a mismatch between energy supply and demand, but also causes safety issues to the power grid. In this context, energy storage can act as a buffer to compensate the intermittency by storing energy at off-peak times and releasing it at peak times.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1-4 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | ES Energy and Environment |
| Volume | 4 |
| Early online date | 28 Jan 2019 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors are grateful for the partial support from a GCRF Collaborative Research Design Sandpits grant (University of Birmingham) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 51706003).
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
- Environmental Engineering
- Materials Science (miscellaneous)
