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WP 7 EU Policy recommendations

Objectives

This PLANETS workpackage develops a systematic understanding of the implications of future energy trends for the EU. It also evaluates and confronts the effectiveness of energy and environmental policies at a European level, bearing in mind the technologies and scenarios assessments and rankings as provided by the preceding workpackages. An important aspect for the analysis under this workpackage is the interrelation of energy and environmental policies and their targets as well as the evaluation of their synergetic effects on new energy technologies development and penetration.


Description of work

Task 7.1: Policy implications on the EU

Partners: ECN, FEEM, USTUTT, KANLO, ORDECSYS, UNIMAN

In in-depth study of the policies analyzed in the previous sections will be made with respect to the implications for the EU. The economic and technological repercussions of different policies on the EU will be cross-compared, by gathering technological assessment and simulation data and running ad hoc model optimizations. Particular focus will be given to the policy capacity to induce technical change in Europe regarding new and/or clean energy technologies, and on how this could establish a new competitive industry in the EU that could export knowledge and advanced technologies to fast growing countries.


Task 7.2: Co-benefits of environmental and energy policies for the EU

Partners: ECN and FEEM

This task aims at quantifying the potential co-benefits and trade-offs between policies with different targets. Given the many intersections between environmental and energy policies, this task will examine how the policies analyzed in the previous workpackages are able to induce co-benefits. Impacts in terms of local air pollution, energy security, global warming and/or traffic congestion will be assessed, and will thus enable the researchers to rank different energy and environmental policies accordingly. The different modeling institutes assist ECN and FEEM in making additional modeling runs for the analysis of co-benefits of environmental and energy policies in the EU.


Task 7.3: Multi-criteria analysis

Partners: ECN, FEEM, CHALMERS and LEI

LEI performs the essence of a multi-criteria analysis, in which such indicators as the share of renewables, security of supply and emission reductions will be jointly researched. LEI delivers a report on this subject, using as input the model runs as made under this and previous workpackages. CHALMERS will assist insofar necessary for the providing of short-term bridging technology data. ECN and FEEM integrate these and the results of all relevant modeling exercises into one description of the recommendations that the consortium deems able to make to policy makers in the EU, thereby duly accounting for the multi-criteria analysis results if these provide additional insight for the policy recommendation report.


Workpackage 7 is carried out under the co-ordination of ECN

Seventh Framework Programme

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