PLANETS main objective is to design the evolution of energy technologies in Europe and at the rest of the world for the next 50/60 years. The construction of a number of scenarios is envisaged to assess the potential technological deployment in response to different energy and environmental policies, at various levels of geographical, technological and economic detail.A pool of various numerical models and targeted technology assessments is used to build results on a solid quantitative and qualitative methodology. The key features of the project are:
1. Definition of Business-as-Usual scenarios, as produced by the various models once a set of driving assumptions is agreed upon.
2. Specific assessments of the main technologies needed for sustainable energy development, such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, new nNuclear, syn-biofuels.
3. Policy scenarios: for a specified set of energy and environmental policies at the EU and global level, the resulting energy technologies development are derived, accounting for both capacity and research and development investments needs.
4. Probabilistic analysis to assess the impact of the many uncertain dimensions at stake and the critical input assumptions of models.
5. Policy recommendations and EU competitiveness: given the relevance that the issue has outside the EU borders, PLANETS intends to analyse the potential outcome of EU policies on the European industry capability to spread clean technology adoption and thus reinforce EU economic competitiveness.
To ensure optimal use of the project results, special attention is given to the dissemination of results by:
• Setting up a website with the project results.
• Producing a set of reports, working papers and peer-reviewed articles in international journals.
• Organize local meetings, in the context of the project workshops, where to involve previously identified stakeholders from the industrial sector.
• Organize a closing conference in Bruxelles that will bring together all the relevant stakeholders, informing them on the project findings and implications.
- Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
- Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands
- University of Stuttgart
- SARL KANLO Consultants
- Operations Research Decisions and Systems Consultants
- Chalmers tekniska hoegskola Aktiebolag
- Lithuanian Energy Institute
- University of Manchester
- Tilburg University
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