{"id":11003,"date":"2026-08-19T18:54:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/group.voltalis.com\/?p=11003"},"modified":"2026-08-19T18:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:54:49","slug":"flexibility-requirements-and-the-role-of-storage-in-future-european-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/group.voltalis.com\/en\/empty\/flexibility-requirements-and-the-role-of-storage-in-future-european-power-11003","title":{"rendered":"Flexibility requirements and the role of storage in future European power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Joint Research Council of the European Commission<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Key findings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The growing shares of wind and solar in the EU power system imply a need for dramatic increases in the scale of decarbonised flexibility (including both storage and demand response).<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>By 2030, the EU would need to grow today&#8217;s\u00a0flexibility requirements,\u00a0which were around\u00a011% of total EU electricity demand in 2021, to 24%\u00a0by\u00a02030 and 30% in 2050\u00a0(as a share of total annual final power demand).\u00a0\u00a0This implies a dramatic increase in the total volume of flexible energy, from a baseline of around 300 TWh\/yr\u00a0in 2021, to 800 TWh\/yr\u00a0in\u00a02030 to 2000TWh\/yr in 2050.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu\/repository\/handle\/JRC130519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu\/repository\/handle\/JRC130519<\/a> (2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Press contact :<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Voltalis:<\/strong><br>Emma Corson, PR &amp; Corporate Communication Manager<br>07 60 89 81 89<br>emma.corson@voltalis.com<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joint Research Council of the European Commission Key findings The growing shares of wind and solar in the EU power system imply a need for dramatic increases in the scale of decarbonised flexibility (including both storage and demand response).\u00a0By 2030, the EU would need to grow today&#8217;s\u00a0flexibility requirements,\u00a0which were around\u00a011% of total EU electricity demand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,188,190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empty","category-institutionals","category-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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