Objectives

The challenge facing the FutureNet consortium is very significant, it encompasses the

• search for engineering solutions to the technical problems of a high reliance on renewable energy resources
• development of economic ideas that support renewable energy
• analysis of the social acceptability of engineering solutions
• exploration of scenarios for the far future of the electrical energy system (including the possible substitution of another vector in place of electricity)

The interdependences of the challenges and the interdisciplinary nature of the work call for flexibility, imagination and careful co-ordination of effort from the many contributors.