Workshop: Energy Systems Integration

NTNU Energy Transition Initiative is established in order to build a world-leading research program focused on strategies for the transition to a future sustainable energy system. Our research objective is to explore different alternatives for the future energy mix and corresponding transition pathways that may lead us to a low carbon society.Our partners: Equinor, StatkraftOur international network: NTNU, MIT, Imperial College London, TU Berlin, University of Cambridge, University of Maryland, RWTH Aachen University, International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA), Joint Global Change Research Institute, DIW Berlin, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), University of Oxford.

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The energy system plays a central role in the transition to a low emission society. As variable renewable energy solutions enter a path of sustained growth in electricity, key energy transition challenges shift towards integrating large shares of renewables through additional flexibility and by decarbonizing other key emitting sectors, such as buildings, transport and industry. In this situation, energy system integration plays a major role, both in terms of integration of different energy vectors and in the sector coupling.
The goal of the workshop is to address both current research challenges and the policy dimension. In partiular we want to get an idea of which areas are most critical to focus on, concerning research, but also concerning policy development and how to best influence future climate politics. This workshop aims to identify the main research challenges for the energy system. It will do so by addressing different futures and for each of these by investigating some of the key questions:
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<LI> Technology choice and related infrastructures. Technology choice and focus on different energy carriers affects challenges for energy production, storage, infrastructure and value chain design.</LI>
<LI> The consumer is at the center of the future energy system, taking a more active role by making the demand side more flexible. What is the potential role and how does human choice affect the different technologies?</LI>
<LI>Market design plays a key role incentivizing both short-term resource allocation and investments.</LI>
<LI>Policy support and instruments: How does policy support play together with markets and decision makers to promote the technologies needed?</LI>
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The workshop will address three different futures, electrification, hydrogen, decentralization, focusing on the questions above:
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<LI>Electrification</LI>
<LI>The hydrogen society</LI>
<LI>Fully decentralized system</LI>
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Finally, the workshop will attempt to identify the main challenges to address in redesigning the energy system, focusing on how the energy system will play a role in low emission industry, transport and in the building sector. The end result will be a short policy brief with clear advice on which research is needed, and potentially which areas are the most critical, and which incentives should be prioritized in order to reach the climate goals set by Norway, by EU and by the UN.
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