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On the road to carbon neutrality with 50 % renewables’ contribution | EU-SysFlex Project | Results in brief | H2020 | CORDIS | European Commission Analyses and pilot demonstrations have culminated in a roadmap to meet 50 % of Europe’s electricity demand with renewable energy sources.

As the project was successfully completed yesterday, we would like to say goodbye to you with this last post.
Let us thank all the partners for their great work and our followers for you support! You will find all our main results in the attached final newsletter and project website. And do not forget, renewable is the future!
Newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gGhMdCwq

Action plan for strengthening electricity network to integrate renewable energy sources
The government has improved legislation that facilitates processes, including the recently passed new Electricity Market Act.
Read more at: https://eu-sysflex.com/action-plan-for-strengthening-electricity-network-to-integrate-renewable-energy-sources/

Polish government wants to build its first nuclear power plant. It will be an expensive investment, but according to its supporters it will be profitable because it will pay for itself very quickly. Environmentalists, on the other hand, speak about possible environmental costs and fear that development of nuclear energy will result in lack of money for development of renewable sources.

Read more on EU-SysFlex website: https://eu-sysflex.com/polands-road-to-nuclear-will-it-pay-off/

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Following an initiative of the Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the European Council on February 24, the Greek Government sent a letter to the Executive Vice-Presidents of the European Commission, the Commissioner for Economy, the Commissioner for Energy and the French Minister of Ecological Transition and President of the Council of Energy Ministers, with specific proposals as to deal with the international energy crisis as a consequence of the Ukrainian conflict.

Read more on EU-SysFlex website: https://eu-sysflex.com/a-greek-initiative-for-an-eu-energy-crisis-solidarity-facility/

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For many years the region was associated with the mining industry. In the face of the energy transformation, green investments are to be the new flywheel. But will they replace coal?

Read more on EU-SysFlex website: https://eu-sysflex.com/belchatow-today-europes-largest-mine-tomorrow-res-and-a-green-future/

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This flexibility roadmap incorporates the findings and results of the EU-SysFlex project to provide a pathway that facilitates large-scale renewable energy integration across Europe. It is built on the SRA (scalability and replicability analysis) of solutions from the project demonstrations, the analysis and investigations on technical scarcities, system services and market designs, system operator procedures, and data management.

Overall, there are eight key messages and recommendations extracted and refined by the EU-SysFlex studies and trials, which serve as the fundamental core of this roadmap.

Read the European Flexibility Roadmap on EU-SysFlex website: https://eu-sysflex.com/eu-sysflex-presents-european-flexibility-roadmap/

“Poland is the 3rd in Europe and 5th in the world in the production of hydrogen”, announced Deputy Minister Ireneusz Zyska. But does hydrogen have a chance to become a dominant energy source in Polish conditions?

Read more on EU-SysFlex website: https://eu-sysflex.com/hydrogen-in-poland-a-viable-alternative-as-an-energy-source/

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Although floating panels is a technology used for several years, it is still considered a novelty in energy sector. What are the prospects for its development in ?

Read more on EU-SysFlex website: https://eu-sysflex.com/floating-solars-what-are-the-prospects-for-its-development-in-poland/

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Wind energy has great potential in , but its development is limited by legal regulations, experts point out. What should be done to increase the share of wind in the national energy mix?

Read more on EU-SysFlex website: https://eu-sysflex.com/how-to-produce-more-wind-energy-in-poland/

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Over more than 4 years, the EU-SysFlex project consortium has analysed, implemented, tested and verified different dimensions of future power system complexities. The European power system flexibility roadmap incorporates the findings and results of the EU-SysFlex project. It provides a pathway that facilitates a high share of renewable energy integration across Europe. It relies on scalability and replicability of solutions from the project demonstrations, the analysis carried out on system scarcities, required mitigations and enhancement in services, market design, system operator procedures, and data management. This roadmap focuses on key pan-European challenges which must be addressed to achieve our renewable ambition.

· What issues and scarcities will the EU power system face in 2030?
· Which solutions can be deployed to mitigate the technical scarcities identified?
· How do we support an appropriate mix of technologies to provide the needed technical solutions and system services?
· How do we enable the utilisation of technical solutions and system services?

Read the roadmap on EU-SysFlex website: https://eu-sysflex.com/eu-sysflex-project-summary-report-project-roadmap/

EU-SysFlex project is proud to present its final brochure! Thanks to all our partners who worked hard to make this happen.

Read the brochure on the website: https://eu-sysflex.com/eu-sysflex-project-brochure/

Sergio Martín, President of the Association of Environmental Sciences of Spain (ACA), assures that the concept of “energy poverty” is so broad and complex to analyze that it does not have to be only related, as it is usually thought, to income level. “You can be energy poor without knowing it”, he says.

Read more on EU-SysFlex website: https://eu-sysflex.com/sergio-martin-president-of-aca-you-can-be-energy-poor-and-have-a-large-payroll/

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The supply of natural gas to Europe “is assured” for this winter and especially in the case of Spain, which has an “excellent” network of liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals and a pipeline supply through Algeria, explained Kadri Simson, European Commissioner for Energy.

Read more on EU-SysFlex website: https://eu-sysflex.com/kadri-simson-spain-has-an-excellent-network-to-receive-liquefied-natural-gas/

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After 4 years and 4 months the EU-SysFlex European project is coming to an end. This large H2020 funded research project brought together 34 partners over 15 European countries and 7 industrial-scale demonstrations.

Read the project's final newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/f5541011896a/eu-sysflex-newsletter-5761129?e=9ed4b3cd6d

Flexibility is required from many technologies and processes to operate a safe, secure, efficient and low-carbon European power system. These are some of the key messages of EU-Sysflex project – €26 million initiative with the goal of targeting key shortcomings of the European power grid.

Read our final press release on EU-SysFlex website here: https://eu-sysflex.com/ambitious-targets-for-renewables-in-electricity-generation-require-power-grid-reforms/

Slovak government has publicly declared support for renewable energy sources, but investors and developers continue to face many obstacles that prevent them from investing in green energy as much as they would like. Special chapter is the persistence of technical obstacles. Without achieving their elimination or at least a major mitigation, we will not move, and our ambitions embodied in the Recovery and Resilience Plan or the National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) will remain on paper.

Read more on EU-SysFlex website: https://eu-sysflex.com/development-of-renewables-is-hampered-by-technical-barriers/

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Trade in electricity between EU member states and countries in the EU’s close vicinity is gaining in importance, and the post-pandemic energy crisis has made it even more significant. The process of building a common energy market is still underway and various proposals for its changes have already been put forward.

Read more on EU-SysFlex website: https://eu-sysflex.com/how-does-cross-border-electricity-trade-work-in-europe/

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With increasing demand and rising electricity prices, it will become crucial in the coming years to ensure better efficiency in power grids. How should this be done?

Read more on EU-SysFlex website: https://eu-sysflex.com/smart-grids-will-they-provide-better-energy-efficiency/

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In the era of green transition and decarbonization, the instability of renewable energy sources compared to fossil sources is a serious obstacle. The solution is energy storage.

Read more on EU-SysFlex website: https://eu-sysflex.com/energy-storage-key-to-the-effective-use-of-renewables/

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Process of moving away from coal, resulting from the need to meet the EU goal of achieving climate neutrality, entails the need to replace this raw material with other sources of energy. How to fill the gap left by coal and is Poland able to ensure its energy security despite the decarbonization process?

Read more on EU-SysFlex website: https://eu-sysflex.com/how-to-balance-the-energy-system-in-poland-after-coalexit/

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Conclusions, lessons learnt and recommendations from the French Virtual Power Plant (VPP) demonstration, which aims at developing and experimenting an innovative “multi-services multi-resources” control, by aggregating wind generation, photovoltaic panels and battery storage.

Read the final deliverable of the French demonstration here:https://eu-sysflex.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Report-D8.4-v1.0.pdf

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Energy professionals working on better integrating the growing number of renewable energies into the French energy mix are finding the varying number of renewable energies challenging, EURACTIV France reports.

Despite the challenges, aggregating multiple decentralised sources, using so-called “smart grids” and goodwill could help with better integration.

Read more on EU-SysFlex website: https://eu-sysflex.com/france-moves-towards-more-flexible-electricity-system/

Germany’s power grid is in dire need of upgrade to ensure stable supply in a country aiming to source 80% of its electricity from intermittent wind and solar by 2030.

The growing focus on electricity grids is driven by the EU’s climate targets for 2030 and 2050, which were put into law last year. The share of electricity in Europe’s energy mix needs to roughly double by mid-century in order to reach the EU’s climate goals, the European Commission estimates.

Read more on EU-SysFlex website: https://eu-sysflex.com/german-electricity-grid-upgrade-will-be-expensive-experts-warn/

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