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All-Renewable Energy Supply
Whole countries cover their energy needs year-round from sun, wind and water - electric power, heat and transport.
Open in the interactive tree →With multi-week and seasonal storage and grid-forming inverters, winter could be bridged. Fossil plants would remain at most as emergency reserve. Energy prices would no longer depend on fuel markets but on investment costs.
What it brings
- Energy independence without imports
- Stable, barely fluctuating energy prices
- Climate-neutral electricity for electrifying everything
Prerequisites
- HVDC Power Transmission1954Long-distance HVDC links connect renewable regions to load centres
- Offshore Wind Farms1991Offshore wind is a main building block of renewable supply
- Seasonal Energy Storageopen
- Stable 100% Renewable Gridopen