Advancing Europe's energy systems: Stationary fuel cells in distributed generation

摘要

The energy systems across Europe face significant challenges as they evolve against the backdrop of an ambitious climate agenda. As energy systems integrate more and more generation capacity from intermittent renewables, numerous challenges arise. Amongst others, Europe's energy systems of the future require new concepts for complementary supply, such as efficient, distributed power generation from natural gas. At the same time, significant investments to modernise the electricity grid infrastructure are needed. Moreover, long-term storage solutions become a growing priority to ensure permanent power supply, e.g. power-to-gas. Moreover, Europe puts greater emphasis on energy efficiency in order to save primary energy, reduce fuel imports and increase energy security.