Full Title: Emerging Sustainable Technologies 2023
Author(s): Elodie Le Cadre Loret, Jan Mertens, Jean-Pierre Keustermans, and Céline Denis
Publisher(s): Engie
Publication Date: January 23, 2023
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Description (excerpt):
The success of any carbon neutral energy transition requires orchestrating a complex network of different technologies that will all be integrated. In all this, energy efficiency and circularity will remain important, and more thought must be given to how the waste of one industry can serve as input for another. This industrial symbiosis will not only require technical solutions but also non-technical ones such as regulatory frameworks. No doubt electricity will play a crucial role and a much bigger one than today. It will be integrated not only from a demand-side management point of view: ie. matching consumption with production but it will also be closely linked to the gas grid and vice versa. Molecules, made either from biomass or from renewable electricity, will
be required not only for long term renewable energy storage and transport but also for some hard to abate industries.