Wind and hydropower also suffer from the heat

Even the climate change plays an important role in energy crisis global. As temperatures rose, the increased evaporation caused rivers and dams to receive less water than expected, leading to a decrease in the production of hydroelectric power. Also the production of wind farms it decreased due to the decrease in wind.

Right now from my window I can see the sun sinking, the perfectly blue sky and the perfectly still branches and leaves of the trees. And with global warming, this will happen more and more.

Giovanni Battista Zorzoli, President of the Italian Association of Energy Economists.

According to a study commissioned byEnergy Authority and from European Commission it has been seen that the lack of energy production from the wind is compensated by the increased production of photovoltaic systems. When there is a lot of sun, photovoltaic cells produce more, but there is also less wind, so wind energy produces less.

However, expectations regarding wind and photovoltaics are lowered by Davide Tabarelli, president of Nomisma Energia, who argues that wind and photovoltaics enable production discontinuous which produces energy for a short time per year (when wind or during the day, mainly in summer) as opposed to gas-fired power stations who work most of the year.

However, it must be emphasized that unlike thermoelectric plants, like all others, wind and photovoltaics do not require cooling of water. But especially the summer heat limits the water resources.

Renewable energy sources struggle to replace traditional energy sources because their production is unpredictable, and the situation will remain that way until the energy system can be stabilized through efficient storage.

Andrea Giuricin, economist of the Bruno Leoni Institute

According to Zorzoli, however, by 2030 it will be possible to store energy for two months.