The project
Enerdata – in partnership with Fraunhofer ISI, IEECP, Trinomics, and E3 Modelling – was selected by the Directorate-General for Energy (DG ENER) of the European Commission to quantify the impact of energy efficiency policies and measures in the European Union.
The study aimed to support recommendations at the level of each Member State to reach the EU’s energy and climate targets.
Strategic stakes
The European Green Deal, formalising the EU’s ambition to become the first climate-neutral continent, sets energy efficiency as a key pillar to reduce GHG emissions. This has been stated in the form of the Energy Efficiency First Principle. In this context, the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), among others, defines rules and obligations to EU Member States in terms of energy efficiency improvements. In parallel, the Governance Regulation also requires the Commission to issue recommendations to Member States which threaten to derail overall target achievement in the EU. The Commission may issue recommendations to Member States and propose EU measures to ensure the achievement of the Union’s 2030 targets for energy efficiency.
In this context, the EU Commissions needed to develop a robust basis for:
- Assessing the impacts of its future recommendations to individual Member States
- Providing recommendations to all MAS
- And in particular, proposing effective measures at EU level.
- Enerdata contributed to the analysis of DG ENER's energy efficiency policy by providing state-of-the-art energy efficiency and demandexpertise. This expertise was first acquired in Europe through the Odyssee-Mure project and then extended to the rest of the world as presented in our EnerDemand service.
- Enerdata developed an assessment tool to meet DG ENER’s needs, by leveraging its expertise in advanced energy modelling tools, custom and off-the-shelf.
- Enerdata’s coverage of all energies at world, regional and country levels, with data broken down by sector and industrial branch, allowed to precisely analyse the impacts of selected energy efficiency policies, at both the EU and Member State levels.
- Literature reviews on energy efficiency policies
- Collection of ex-post evaluation studies and existing analyses on the effectiveness of energy efficiency policies in the EU, Member States, and beyond.
- Development of a bottom-up assessment tool, allowing to:
- Quantify the impact of energy efficiency policies at EU level, and their contribution to the EU’s long-term energy efficiency targets
- Assess the extent to which energy efficiency measures can provide additional co-benefits
- Evaluation of the “multiple benefits of energy efficiency” in terms of GDP, employment, reduction of energy bills, environmental and health benefits (e.g., emissions, noise), increased comfort, and more.
- Quantify the impact of energy efficiency policies at EU level, and their contribution to the EU’s long-term energy efficiency targets
- Quantification of the impacts of energy efficiency policies in the EU
- Use of the bottom-up tool to quantify the impacts of the EU’s energy efficiency policies, including their contribution to long-term energy efficiency targets
- Identification of energy efficiency measures at EU level
- Suggestions by the consortium experts of concrete measures that could be introduced at EU level, as part of the gap-filling mechanism of the Energy Union Governance, to ensure the achievement of the EU’s long-term energy efficiency targets
- Bottom-up assessment tool
- Custom modelling tool for DG ENER in terms of energy efficiency evaluation and policy design
- User-friendly visualisation features
- Training
- Demonstrations and training sessions by Enerdata experts for DG ENER authorities on the use of the bottom-up assessment tool
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