The current crisis represents a historic turning point for the energy system and even more for the future of European industry. Diversification in natural gas supplies as an alternative to Russian ones, renewed use of fossil fuels, a push towards renewables, and storage systems are just some of the topics on top of worldwide agendas.
2 – here’s how its impact on the planet can be reduced.
Marco Baresi is the Institutional Affairs Director of Turboden.
Heat. It’s the single largest energy use in the world.
Heating water, our homes and industrial processes accounts for more than half of all energy demand globally. Just over half of the heat produced is used in industry – most of the rest goes on heating water, homes and buildings.
Only 10% of this heat is generated from renewable sources, which means that it has a huge carbon footprint – 40% of global CO
2 emissions – that needs to be tackled urgently.
And while all forms of heating have come under scrutiny, industrial heat presents the biggest challenge for decarbonisation by far.