Renewable Energy Capacity In The Eu: The Current Market, Drivers To Growth, Future Capacity Forecasts
Business Insights
July 1, 2009 160 Pages - SKU: RET2391591
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Countries covered: Europe
Electrical production capacity has had historically an energy mix consisting primarily of fossil fuels including gas, coal and oil, backed up with a volume of nuclear and hydro power.
The EU-27 countries are trying to lower carbon emissions, and build an interconnected, efficient energy system.
New targets have been created by the EC that request that by 2020 the EU-27 countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20% (compared with 1990 levels) by 2020; improve energy efficiency by 20% by 2020; raise the share of renewable energy to 20 % by 2020; increase the level of biofuels in transport fuel to 10% by 2020.
In trying to meet these objectives, a new energy market is beginning to evolve.
Recent addition has been made to the energy mix by way of renewable energy technologies which include power from the wind - wind turbines, and power from the sun - solar cells, and geothermal - relying on the heat that can be found at varying degrees of depth into the Earth’s surface. In the last decade newly installed renewable energy technologies are starting to gain a notable share of the market.
‘Renewable Energy Capacity in the EU’ is a new report published by Business Insights that documents the growth of this new market, showing its current status and projecting where it is likely to grow to in the foreseeable future.
This report gathers the statistical data on the different types of energy generation, combines and contrasts them against each other to show the clear leaders, drivers to change and future growth.
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- Renewable Energy Capacity in the EU
- Executive summary
- Energy security and environmental drivers
- Infrastructure
- Current state of EU energy market
- Wind capacity in the EU
- Solar capacity in the EU
- Future outlook for the renewable energy market
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Report introduction
- Chapter 2 Energy security and environmental drivers
- Summary
- Introduction
- Energy security
- Fossil fuel generation and emissions
- Resource depletion and alternatives to oil
- The pace of resource depletion
- Liquid alternatives to oil
- Replacing existing capacity
- Environmental concerns
- Population growth
- CO2 emissions by country
- Global warming
- Renewable energy and energy efficiency targets in the EU
- Chapter 3 Infrastructure
- Summary
- Introduction
- Interconnections
- Energy networks
- Current international interconnections
- Planned international interconnections
- Grid extension to accommodate renewables
- Grid infrastructure
- Grid connection issues
- Grid connection costs
- Intelligent grid management
- Grid upgrades
- Future renewable infrastructure/ grid requirements
- Med Ring
- African connection
- Intercontinental HVDC interconnection
- Super Grid
- EU wind map
- EU solar map
- Chapter 4 Current state of the EU energy market
- Summary
- Introduction
- Energy demand in the EU (consumption)
- Total energy consumption
- Final energy consumption
- EU-27 electricity capacity
- Capacity factor
- Electricity installed capacity mix
- Wind capacity
- Solar capacity
- Geothermal capacity
- Hydropower capacity
- EU-27 electricity generation
- Gross electricity generation
- Recent installed energy capacity summary
- Percentage mix of what has been recently installed in Europe
- Chapter 5 Wind capacity in the EU
- Summary
- Introduction
- The European wind market
- Leading countries
- Cumulative wind power
- New installed wind
- Installed capacity dominating the market
- Electricity production from installed wind power
- Wind capacity planned and under construction
- Drivers of European wind power market capacity
- The cost of wind power
- Wind capital costs
- Wind integration costs
- Government legislation effecting the wind market in Europe
- Regulatory price-driven mechanisms
- Quantity-based market schemes
- Voluntary approaches
- Indirect strategies
- Current wind support mechanisms in the EU
- Chapter 6 Solar capacity in the EU
- Summary
- Introduction
- The European solar market
- Leading countries
- Cumulative solar capacity
- New installed solar capacity
- Solar capacity planned and under construction
- Drivers of European solar market capacity
- The cost of solar power
- Competitiveness of grid-connected applications
- Factors affecting PV cost reductions
- Government legislation effecting the solar PV market in Europe
- Renewable energy ‘Feed-in-Tariff’ (REFIT)
- Financing
- Administration
- Guaranteed grid access
- Government and industry commitment
- Chapter 7 Future outlook for the European renewable energy market
- Summary
- Introduction
- Future energy consumption
- Population growth
- Population forecasts
- Increased electrical generation capacity based on population growth
- Energy consumption and its impact
- Overall energy consumption
- Oil consumption
- Future carbon emissions
- Oil price rises
- Future energy consumption by type to 2020
- Renewable energy percentage mix to 2020
- Scenarios for implementation of renewable electricity generation capacity
- Wind growth to 2020
- Onshore wind
- Offshore wind
- Solar power growth to 2020
- Wind and solar cumulative capacity by 2020
- Other renewables
- Problems with increasing mass hydropower capacity
- Other renewable energy growth to 2020
- Issues with switching to renewable technologies
- Capacity factor
- Efficiency
- Conclusions
- Summary of issues
- Gross electricity production supplied by renewables
- Electricity generation by type
- Current generation mix
- Future final energy supplied by renewables
- Future European electricity generation scenarios
- Reference scenario
- High scenario
- Low scenario
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- References
- Primary and secondary data sources
- Index
- List of Figures
- Figure 2.1: CO2 emissions by fuel (CO2/GJ), 2007
- Figure 2.2: Non renewable resources depletion (years), 2009
- Figure 2.3: Changing UK generation capacity format (MW), 2003-2007
- Figure 2.4: Replacing old capacity with renewables (MW), 2003-2007
- Figure 2.5: EU-27 Population growth (millions of people), 1998 to 2008
- Figure 2.6: EU-27 Population growth projection (millions of people), 2010-2060
- Figure 2.7: EU generated carbon emissions (Million Metric tonnes of Carbon), 2006
- Figure 2.8: EU 27 CO2 emissions by sector, 1990-2006
- Figure 2.9: CO2 levels in the atmosphere (PPM), 1959-2008
- Figure 3.10: Interconnectors in Europe, 2009
- Figure 3.11: Interconnectors in the North Sea, 2008
- Figure 3.12: The Mediterranean Ring, 2005
- Figure 3.13: European wind speed map
- Figure 3.14: EU Solar map, 2006
- Figure 4.15: Gross inland consumption - EU27 by fuel (in Mtoe), 2006
- Figure 4.16: Total EU-27 energy consumption by fuel (Mtoe), 2006
- Figure 4.17: EU-27 Energy consumption by fuel (% usage compared to 1990), 2006
- Figure 4.18: Explanation of capacity factor
- Figure 4.19: Energy capacity mix in Europe (GW), end 2008
- Figure 4.20: Installed power capacity in the EU (MW), 1990-2008
- Figure 4.21: New installed capacity in Europe by type (MW), 2008
- Figure 4.22: EU net increase/decrease in power capacity (MW), 2000-2008
- Figure 4.23: Annual installed capacity in the EU by type (% share), 1995 and 2007
- Figure 4.24: EU-27 electricity generation growth (%), 1990-2006
- Figure 4.25: New power capacity installed in 2008 (MW)
- Figure 5.26: Cumulative wind power installed in the EU (MW), 2008
- Figure 5.27: Life cycle carbon emissions (CO2 equivalent/GW)
- Figure 5.28: Additional installed wind capacity by year (MW), 1995-2008
- Figure 5.29: Germany, Spain and Denmark’s share of EU market for wind power (MW), 2000- 2008
- Figure 7.30: Population growth forecast (billions of people), 1990-2030
- Figure 7.31: World market energy consumption (Btu), 1990-2008
- Figure 7.32: Primary energy consumption in the EU by fuel (Mtoe), 2008
- Figure 7.33: Population and oil consumption growth (bn), 1965-2007
- Figure 7.34: Global CO2 emissions growth (Million Metric Tonnes CO2), 1990-2030
- Figure 7.35: Europe energy consumption by type (Btu), 1990-2030
- Figure 7.36: High, reference and low onshore wind power scenarios for EU, (GW), 2010 to 2030
- Figure 7.37: Three offshore wind power scenarios for EU, (GW), 2010 to 2030
- Figure 7.38: EPIA EU Solar projection (GW), 2008-2013
- Figure 7.39: EurObserv’ER EU Solar projection (MW), 2006 to 2010
- Figure 7.40: Increasing solar cell efficiency (%), 1975-2008
- Figure 7.41: Generation technology comparison
- Figure 7.42: Share of generation in Europe by energy type (%), 2020
- List of Tables
- Table 2.1: EU-27 energy dependency (consumption v imports Mtoe), 2008
- Table 2.2: Non renewable resources depletion, 2009
- Table 2.3: Biofuels comparison (Liters of Oil Yields), to 2009
- Table 2.4: EU renewable energy targets for 2020 (%)
- Table 3.5: Electricity consumption and exchanges in regions in Europe (TWh), 2006
- Table 4.6: Gross inland consumption (Mtoe), 2006
- Table 4.7: EU-27 final energy consumption (TWh), 2006
- Table 4.8: Typical capacity factors for power generating plants (%)
- Table 4.9: Gross electricity generation in EU-27 by type (GWh), 2006
- Table 4.10: EU-27 electricity production by source (%), 2006
- Table 4.11: Gross electricity generation from renewables in EU-27 (GWh), 2006
- Table 5.12: Wind power total and newly installed (MW), 2009
- Table 5.13: Wind offshore* power total installed capacity (MW), 2007 and 2008
- Table 5.14: EU27 Electricity production from wind power (MW), 2008
- Table 5.15: Wind power constructions and planning until 2015, Jan 2009
- Table 5.16: Comparison of capital cost estimates ($/KW), 2003 and 2007
- Table 5.17: Wind support schemes for EU-27 countries, 2008
- Table 6.18: Total cumulative solar photovoltaic installed (MW), ending 2008
- Table 6.19: Additional photovoltaic capacity installed in the EU (MW), 2008
- Table 7.20: Oil price per barrel (€), 2000-2030
- Table 7.21: Wind electricity production forecast to 2030 (TWh), 2008
- Table 7.22: Electricity generation matrix, 2006
- Table 7.23: EU electricity generation capacity (GW), 2006-2008
- Table 7.24: Energy consumption (TWh) and capacity growth (GW), 2008-2020
- Table 7.25: Reference EU future electrical generation scenarios (TWh), 2008-2020
- Table 7.26: High EU future electrical generation scenarios (TWh), 2008-2020
- Table 7.27: Low EU future electrical generation scenarios (TWh), 2008-2020
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