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Estimating the potential for improving energy efficiency, sources of renewable energy and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions is vital to developing future energy and emission scenarios.
Energy-efficiency potential studies provide a crucial input for target setting and policy development. In such studies, technologies can be ranked using cost-supply curves, delivering important insights into how best to prioritize funding for supporting R&D and for implementing key technologies. These may include renewable energy and energy-saving technologies as well as other technologies used to reduce CO2 as well as non-CO2 emissions.
| Ecofys pioneered and mainstreamed a number of bottom-up potential assessments, combining technology assessment with transparent presentation in cost-supply curves and linking them with scenario analyses. We combine a thorough understanding of technological developments in various sectors with detailed knowledge on the policy and market context. Partly using our own models, such as the Genesis database, we can assess the current and the future potential of a variety of technological options in a robust and transparent fashion. |
Sectoral contributions to projected EU emissions and potential emission reductions in 2010
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References:
- The Sectoral Objectives project for the European Commission, which led to the adoption of the EU ETS Directive and a variety of follow-up projects (SERPEC-CC).
- Renewable energies potentials for eleven rural communities in Andalucía in Spain – Rural Development Group Sierra de Cazorla.
- Assessment of the potential for carbon emission reductions - companies such as GlaxoSmithKline and Kraft Food.
- Detailed potential studies for carbon capture and storage technologies - e.g. the IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme and EnergieNed.
- Scenarios for sharing the EU Renewable Energy target for 2020 across individual Member States - the European Commission.
- Assessment of the market for voluntary credits using marginal abatement cost curves - an international oil company.
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