MSE Colloquium 2018

In 2017, more than 85% of the added electricity production capacity in Europe was based on renewable sources. With increasing shares of wind, solar, biomass and hydropower, the transition within the energy systems is moving forward. Hence, the electricity sector plays a leading role in ensuring minimal environmental impact, reliability of energy supply and achieving this at minimum cost. Currently, energy science and technology are facing manifold serious challenges in order to propose sustainable solutions. Amongst these are: the intermittent nature and only local disposability and/or exploitability of different kinds of renewable energy sources, the development of large-scale energy storage, as well as the handling of the remaining fossil heat and power plants. New concepts and integral views are necessary in energy science and engineering to reduce primary energy consumption and to propose a sustainable development for large energy consumers such as the mobility and the building sector.