International Energy Agency's Energy Technology Perspectives 2012
The CSIS Energy and National Security Program hosted Ambassador Richard H. Jones, Deputy Executive Director and Dr. Markus Wrake, Senior Energy Analyst and ETP Project Lead, International Energy Agency (IEA) to present the IEA's Energy Technology Perspectives 2012.
Energy Technology Perspectives 2012 (ETP 2012) looks at how technologies-- from electric vehicles to smart grids-- can make a decisive difference in achieving the objective of limiting the global temperature rise to 2°C and enhancing energy security. ETP 2012 presents scenarios and strategies to 2050, with the aim of guiding decision makers on energy trends and what needs to be done to build a clean, secure and competitive energy future.
ETP 2012 shows:
- Current progress on clean energy deployment, and what can be done to accelerate it.
- How energy security and low carbon energy are linked.
- How energy systems will become more complex in the future and why systems integration is beneficial and how it can be achieved.
- How flexible electricity systems are increasingly important, and how a system with smarter grids, energy storage and flexible generation can work.
- Why fossil fuels will not disappear but will see their roles change, and what it means for the energy system as a whole.
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