MACCs - Marginal Abatement Cost Curves

What is the future CO2 emissions reduction potentials and what is their cost across economic sectors?

30 years of experience in the field of energy modelling and a strong collaboration on the globally recognised POLES forecasting model, has given rise to our MACC tool.

Marginal Abatement Cost Curves (MACCs) is a powerful tool used by policy makers, researchers and business analysts to assess climate policies, evaluate cost and efficiency, and simulate carbon markets, such as the EU ETS.

MACCs provides different levels of emissions reductions that can be reached for carbon price levels for a given year, country and sector. These levels are derived from a baseline scenario which is explicitly detailed.

On a MAC Curve, the x-axis represents the emissions reduction, the y-axis the associated carbon value and the area under the curve the total abatement cost.

The MACC tool is available as an add-on to the EnerFuture service and is generated using the POLES-Enerdata model.