In Brief
Energy Roadmap
On commission by Greenpeace International, experts from the DLR have compiled a global scenario for a sustainable energy supply. The study Energy [R]evolution indicates ways for how to achieve this by the year 2050. More than 80 per cent of primary energy are to be generated from renewable energy sources. At present, the global energy supply still is based on more than 80 per cent generation from fossil sources of energy. By 2050, 94 per cent of the global demand for electrical power could be generated from renewable energy sources; wind energy, photovoltaics and geothermal energy could cover 60 per cent of the worldwide demand for electricity. "With our scenario 2012, we were able to show that it is possible for the world to dispense with using oil and gas resources even faster than we had predicted in our 2010 evaluation," explains Thomas Pregger from the DLR Institute of Technical Thermodynamics. Greenpeace intended the scenario to demonstrate that the secure supply of energy is possible also without the need for oil boreholes in the Arctic and
