The ÖNIP assumes increased electricity demand of 90 TWh in 2030 and 121 TWh in 2040. Most recently, electricity consumption was 73 TWh (2022). According to Renewable Energy Austria (EEÖ), the demand for renewable electricity can be fully covered by domestic energy generation if the infrastructure Contact online >>
The ÖNIP assumes increased electricity demand of 90 TWh in 2030 and 121 TWh in 2040. Most recently, electricity consumption was 73 TWh (2022). According to Renewable Energy Austria (EEÖ), the demand for renewable electricity can be fully covered by domestic energy generation if the infrastructure is aligned accordingly. The future gas supply from bio-methane and renewable hydrogen also needs to be expanded with foresight.
Climate Protection Minister Leonore Gewessler said on Monday that the ÖNIP had brought together all energy sources and thus the entire energy system in an "integrated view". Furthermore, the targets set out in the ÖNIP were subjected to a strategic environmental assessment in order to review the environmental impact of the expansion plan. "The ÖNIP creates clarity and transparency - and provides certainty for the implementation of projects," explained APG Managing Director Gerhard Christiner during the presentation.
"It is very good to have a cross-sectoral plan for the energy transition, but in order to actually achieve the decarbonization targets, we need to evolve from a champion of targets to a champion of measures. Only then can the energy transition in the pipeline succeed," adds Bernhard Painz, CEO of Austrian Gas Grid Management AG (AGGM).
IG Windkraft, EEÖ and PV Austria have all reacted positively to the grid expansion plans. "IG Windkraft welcomes this expansion plan, as the conversion of the electricity grids to meet the needs of renewables is of crucial importance for the success of the energy transition," said Moidl in a press release, adding: "These targets in the ÖNIP come very close to the actual need for expansion." EEÖ Managing Director Martina Prechtl-Grundnig explained in a press release that the grid infrastructure plan provides the necessary framework for the expansion of renewable energies.
Smart grid technologies and approaches can play a vital part in sustainable energy systems; they help to cope with the challenges we face as the number of local providers feeding in electricity from renewables at fluctuating rates goes up, while demand for electricity-based services increases. This is carried out by communicatively linking together particular components such as local generating and storage facilities, flexible consumers and intelligent buildings. Here interesting prospects open up for decentralized and self-organized approaches.
In addition, smart grids also can help to improve energy efficiency and make the power supply more reliable throughout the power supply system. Some technologies for smart grid solutions are already available today; however, they need to be optimized and assembled into a system to be introduced into distribution networks on a larger scale.
The strategy finding process Smart Grids 2.0 builds on three pillars: the Technology Roadmap for smart grids in and from Austria, the Strategic Research Agenda in the field of smart energy systems in and from Austria, and initial elements (worked out with the help of a wide range of contributors) of a strategy for introducing smart grids. >> (in German)
The extent of the long-term need for research toward a sustainable, optimized energy infrastructure has been worked out within the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA). In a participative process involving all Austrian players who are active in this research field, the relevant topics for the transition to integrated energy and ICT infrastructures have been viewed in a comprehensive perspective, and synergies identified.
With a focus on interdisciplinary and systemic issues, the extent of the necessary research has been defined in detail for the following four areas: developing spatially specific infrastructure covering all sources of energy, the governance of the energy turnaround, the electricity system and grid-bound provision of heat and cold. Information and communication technologies (ICT), storage technologies and aspects of energy efficiency, which are relevant for all energy networks and for developing new business models, have been grouped together as cross-cutting issues.
With the Strategic Research Agenda Austria intends to provide crucial support for the key aims of the European Energy Union: to make the power supply more reliable by diversifying across sources of energy and using the energy provided more efficiently, a completely integrated European market for energy, as well as climate protection and reduction of emissions to achieve the climate targets agreed in Paris in 2015.
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