Journal article
Fusion power in a future low carbon global electricity system
CIEMAT1
EURATOM-ENEA sulla Fusione2
Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development3
Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft mbH4
Culham Centre for Fusion Energy5
Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark6
Systems Analysis, Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark7
Fusion is one of the technologies that may contribute to a future, low carbon, global energy supply system. In this article we investigate the role that it may play under different scenarios. The global energy model ETM (originally EFDA TIMES Model) has been used to analyse the participation of fusion technologies in the global electricity system in the long term.
Results show that fusion technologies penetration is higher in scenarios with stricter CO2 emissions reduction targets. In addition, investment costs and discount rates of fusion technologies are key factors for fusion implementation. Finally, the main competitors for fusion in future are Carbon Capture and Storage and fission technologies.
| Language: | English |
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| Year: | 2017 |
| Pages: | 1-8 |
| ISSN: | 22114688 and 2211467x |
| Types: | Journal article |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.esr.2016.11.002 |
| ORCIDs: | 0000-0002-6520-5416 and Grohnheit, Poul Erik |
