[en] After an introduction by the Commission chairman, this report briefly evokes actions undertaken in cooperation with other actors: Meteo France for climate scenarios, Artelys and Enea consulting for a study on the potential of energy storage, Maias Eolis for its tools of management of wind energy variability, the French-German office for renewable energies for its report on challenges for renewable energies in Germany, and the Ancre for the presentation of long term energetic scenarios. It discusses how the Commission is a privileged body for the consultation about RTE's prospective visions, as well as far as data transparency is concerned

[en] This bibliographical note presents the content of the 2014 January-February issue of Questions internationals. It analyses the energy issue and its challenges in different regions of the world. The contributors notably address the issue of energy transition in Europe, strategic concerns and market logics for the oil sector, the uncertain perspectives for non conventional hydrocarbons and also for the civil nuclear sector (for different reasons and within a different context), the role of electricity transport in the development of renewable energies, and the situation of the CO₂ trading scheme in Europe. Besides these contributions, other topics are briefly addressed: Brazil's energetic independence, the issues of energy sobriety and green economy for France, resources as a curse or a blessing, the paradox between Africa's subsoil richness and population poverty, the situation of China between increasing consumption and energy transition, the uncertainties and interdependencies related to gas trade between Europe and Russia, energy infrastructures in Europe, chemical weapons and their international control, the Geneva agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue, migrations in today's France

[en] This book gathers contributions presented during two study days and a colloquium on energetic and climatic issues in France, Germany and Europe. After an introduction which discusses the issue of an implementation of a European energy policy, a first set of contributions presents some historical elements about the French energy policy since the 1970's until now, and about the German energy policy since the reconstruction and until the Energiewende. The second set aims at giving a comparative overview of the French energy transition policy and the German Energiewende policy, at discussing the German turn expressed in the Energiewende, and at discussing issues related to the financing of these both new policies. The next set of contributions presents some examples of cooperation between the two countries in the fields of energy transition, climate, renewable energies, and energy efficiency. A set of contributions then addresses emerging challenges and transformations for the electricity market within this context of energy transition. The relationship between climate protection and energy transition, the contribution of energy policy to the COP21 success, the European climate and energy policy after the COP21, and the idea of the 'pentagon of the electricity market' are then addressed. The last set of contributions illustrates the differences between energy strategies among different European countries, more particularly the United Kingdom, Sweden and Poland

[en] The French-German office for Renewable energies (OFAEnR) organised a conference on the grid integration of wind farms. In the framework of this French-German exchange of experience, more than 80 participants exchanged views on the evolutions of tariffs and licensing procedures, and on grid capacity improvements and production forecasts. This document brings together the available presentations (slides) made during this event: 1 - The necessary evolution of billing and procedures for wind turbines connection to the grid in France (Didier Laffaille); 2 - Improvement of wind turbines integration to the grid in the framework of the EEG 2009 law (Jens Boemer); 3 - Decentralized power generation on the French power grids - 15, 20 kV and low voltage (Jean-Luc Fraisse); 4 - GOTTESWIND? Solution for the future: towards a grid evolution (Herve Mignon); 5 - Production forecasts in Germany - State-of-the-art and challenges for the grid exploitation (Kurt Rohrig); 6 - High-voltage lines capacity evaluation in meteorological situations with high wind energy production (Matthias Lange); 7 - The IPES project for the integration of wind energy production in the exploitation of the French power system (Jean-Pierre Gonot); 8 - Experience feedback from a wind turbine manufacturer in France and in Germany (Daniel Bagusche); 9 - Solutions for grid security improvement and capacity enhancement: cooperation between grid and power plant operators (Stefan Wagner); 10 - Open questions on wind energy integration to French and German grids (Johannes Schiel)

[en] The French-German office for Renewable energies (OFAEnR) organised a conference on grid integration of renewable energies. In the framework of this French-German exchange of experience, about a hundred of participants exchanged views on the similarities and differences between the French and German approaches of renewable energies integration to grids. This document brings together the available presentations (slides) made during this event: 1 - Power grid development - Policy and challenges (Pierre Fontaine); 2 - Grid Development: German Strategy (Berthold Goeke); 3 - Power grids development: situational analysis (Herve Mignon); 4 - Traditional Power Lines, Partial Underground Cabling and HVDC lines: Costs, Benefits and Acceptance (Heinrich Brakelmann); 5 - Transmission Lines - Local Acceptance (Gundula Huebner); 6 - eTelligence- energy meets Intelligence: experience feedback from the grid operator EWe on smart grids and the integration of renewable energies (Tanja Schmedes); 7 - Nice Grid, The French Smart Grid Project within Grid4eU (Remy Garaude Verdier); 8 - Economical Analysis Of energy Storage For Renewable energy Farms - experience of EDF en on the basis of 3 call for tender issued by the French Government in 01/2010, 11/2010, and 09/2011: what conditions for a real deployment (Pierre-Guy Therond); 9 - Hydrogen as a renewable energies storage mean (Werner Diwald)

[en] This large report contains contributions and contents of round tables and workshops held during a colloquium. Round tables addressed the following topics: challenges and perspectives for the law on energy transition and the electric mix, maturity and competitiveness of existing sectors, instruction manual for a decentralised electric mix, electric mix and grid adaptation. Workshop addressed wind energy (development status, key figures, participation-based wind energy, radar disturbances as a brake to wind energy development), photovoltaic workshop (development status and key figures, ADEME actions, project elaboration, governance, financing and self-consumption, R and D and industrial innovation, environmental impacts and recycling), geothermal energy (development status and key figures, Enhanced Geothermal System in Alsace, governance mode for projects in the French West Indies), and sea energies (development status and key figures, the PRISMER project, demonstrators, industrial fallouts of renewable sea energies, environmental impacts and acceptability). The second part of the reports contains all Power Point presentations

[en] A large deployment of plug-in vehicles in France can contribute to reduce the climate impact of cars while reaching the ambitions of the French energy transition law. According to this technical report, launched by the ECF and Fondation pour l'Homme et la Nature, vehicle to grid and Second life batteries can accelerate the deployment of renewable energy sources (RES) and ensure better grid stability. The project was conducted over 18 months with the input from the French's automotive sector, battery suppliers, transmission system operators and environmental NGOs, and was underpinned by energy modeling by Carbon 4. The project team built a balanced evidence base on the contribution of EVs towards transport decarbonization and to RES integration in France by 2030. The project also identified the key levers to reduce the remaining impacts on the environment via life cycle analysis on five indicators (Global Warming Potential, Acidification Potential, Abiotic Depletion, Eutrophication Potential, Photochemical Ozone Creation Potential). The analysis shows today, the Global Warming Potential (GWP) of a small Battery Electric Vehicle (e.g. Zoe - 22 kWh) is 70% less than the GWP of a small gasoline car. The GWP of a large BEV is 57% less than the GWP of large diesel car. In 2030, the gap between Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) vehicles and Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV) is reduced due to the mild-hybridization of ICE vehicles but BEVs still have less life cycle emissions. Recycling is an important element to reduce life-cycle impacts of large BEVs and should be incentivized. On average, a 30% increase of the battery recycling mass rate leads to a 14% decrease of the overall EV's GWP. BEVs contribute to renewable energies integration. In case the infrastructure is in place, the use of vehicle-to-grid services can ensure grid stabilization, in particular during peak demand. The technical V2G potential for an average Winter day of 1.3 million vehicles (30% of the estimated stock in 2030) is 45 GWh. Around 10% of this potential could cover the entire needs in terms of primary reserve between 6-8 pm during a Winter day in France. When a battery loses a quarter of its initial capacity, it can be refurbished and used as a storage device for RES. The battery enters its second life. If all automotive batteries entered in the market in 2020 are used for RES storage in 2030, the technical annual potential is 8 TWh. This potential can go up to 37 TWh in 2040, providing there is enough renewables to be stored