Energy Demand and Supply Report: Analyzing Renewables and their Impact

This report delves into the critical issue of energy demand and supply, particularly in the context of increasing renewable energy sources. It examines the challenges of balancing supply and demand, such as the need for the National Grid to manage fluctuating power generation from renewables like solar and wind. The report highlights the costs associated with these challenges, including increased electricity bills and the potential for wasted energy. It also explores potential solutions, such as demand-side response, while acknowledging the limitations of such approaches. The analysis draws on recent data and research, including an examination of electricity production in the United Kingdom, to provide a comprehensive overview of the complexities and potential solutions in the energy sector.

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DEMAND AND SUPPLY OF ENERGY
Question: With the increased production of renewable energy, how the demand and
match to supply?
Describing Question: There is a need to urgently find a permanent solution to the
mismatch between demand and supply. This problem remains a serious one, yet many studies
have been silent about it for a long time
Thesis: Whereas the renewables’ growth is assisting in the reduction of carbon emissions
and tackling the climate change, balancing the resource availability with the varying degrees of
electricity demand remains a bigger challenge.
Claims/Reasons: #1: National Grid is occasionally compelled to pay with generators to
decrease their respective output to make sure that supply matches demand. #2: The compelled
National Grid to have an effect of leading to increased bills for the electricity to consumers and
hence inefficient strategy. #3: The electricity produced from wind power might be utilized
instead of going to waste where demand for electricity might surge in the course of periods of
oversupply (Shah, Muhammad and Bilal 40).
Proposed evidence: A recent analysis of the amount of electricity produced in the United
Kingdom by Carbon Brief from renewables like solar and wing has confirmed that it is growing
every year. This analysis unraveled that solar panels produced extra electricity than coal between

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April and September 2016. The amount of electricity produced from renewables surged from
nineteen percent in 2014 to twenty-five percent in 2015 for the first time ever.
Debatable: One way of achieving a matched demand-supply is via demand-side response
whereby the users alter the amount of electricity used occasionally. Nevertheless, some argue
that this approach comes with costs since not only huge electricity consumers can assist manage
variable production from renewables (Chen 54).

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Works Cited
Chen, Jinhang. "An Empirical Study on China’s Energy Supply-and-Demand Model Considering
Carbon Emission Peak Constraints in 2030." Engineering 3.4 (2017): 512-517.
Shah, Syed Atif Rafiq, Muhammad Mubassir Saleem, and Bilal Khan. "The cost for economic
growth: A study on the energy demand of Pakistan using TIMES." Power Generation
System and Renewable Energy Technologies (PGSRET), 2015. IEEE, 2015.