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Today the European Union produces a sixth of its electricity using renewable energy sources like wind, solar and hydro power. But that proportion will have to more than double over the coming decade if the EU is to keep its promise of tackling climate change by ensuring that 20 percent of our energy comes from renewable sources by 2020. This film, shot in Germany, Denmark and Spain looks at a number of projects supported by the EU\'s Intelligent Energy Europe Programme, which are designed to help the Union meet this ambitious target.
We all love electricity. Modern societies couldn't function without it
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and we're using more and more every day. But our love affair with electrical
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power comes at a cost.
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Climate change. Power stations that use fossil fuels like coal or gas
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are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. And that's where renewable
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energy comes in.
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Generating electricity using sources like wind, water or solar power
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causes almost no greenhouse gas emissions. EU governments have pledged
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that 20 percent of our energy will come from renewable sources
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by 2020. Today around a sixth of Europe's electricity already comes from
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renewables.
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This Franco-German hydroelectric power station on the River Rhine
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has been producing clean power for decades. But the proportion will have to
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increase to well over a third
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if Europe is to respect its 2020 commitment. The EU's Intelligent Energy
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Europe program is supporting projects
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designed to help reach this goal. The OPTRAS project looked at how
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electricity producers
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can be encouraged to generate more power with renewables.
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The target of 20 percent renewable energies in the year 2020
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is an ambitious but realistic target and therefore we will need
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a broad portfolio of renewable technologies in order to achieve
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such an ambitious target. And in terms of policies
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first of all we have to rely and we have to
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build on the existing success stories in
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the different European member states. Spanish power firm Iberdrola is one of the
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world's biggest producers of renewable energy.
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This Iberdrola solar plant will power around 600 homes.
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The company participated in a project called the Realize Forum
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which studied incentive schemes to encourage the development of renewables.
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Power sources like solar or wind energy don't produce a constant steady supply
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of power. So the transmission service operators or TSOs
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who control our power networks must constantly balance varying supplies of
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renewable electricity
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with traditional sources. Spanish TSO
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REE is taking part in a project called Respond which looked at this question of
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secure energy supplies.
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In Denmark 20 percent of the country's power is on average
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generated by wind turbines. But wind energy sometimes satisfies all of
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Denmark's power needs
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allowing the country to export surplus electricity. It is a prerequisite for a
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large-scale development of wind power
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that we have strong interconnectors to the neighbors, that we have strong
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power markets and that we develop according to the needs of wind power.
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And consumers benefit from the fact that an increasing amount of the energy they
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use
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comes from clean renewable sources. Pierre Roussinchau
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has even bought chairs in an offshore wind farm.
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Increasing the amount of electricity Europe produces from renewable sources won't be easy.
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But with the right encouragement for renewables plus real efforts to reduce
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overall energy consumption
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the power to make the change is in our grasp.
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- Autor/es:
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- Fecha:
- 18 de noviembre de 2009 - 10:46
- Visibilidad:
- Público
- Enlace Relacionado:
- European Commission
- Duración:
- 03′ 48″
- Relación de aspecto:
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