The international energy consultancy's latest Technology Trends report also spotlights leaps in electricity storage, data-communications and power electronics as shaping "a new power reality, transforming our existing power systems".

"In the next ten years, the new power landscape will be a hybrid of large and small scale elements: large scale renewable generating plants and super grids which move power over long distances, and micro grids and energy producing buildings where end-users have an active role," say the authors of the report, which was led by DNV GL director of group research and innovation for energy, Theo Bosma.

"Renewable