Overview
Funding:
European Commission, Intelligent Energy Europe Programme
Timeframe:
12/2006 – 11/2008
Budget:
Contractors:
EEG, Vienna University of Technology, Austria (leader); Energy Restructuring Agency (APE), Slovenia; Ambiente Italia-Research Institute, Italy; EC BREC/CLN, Poland; Ecofys, UK; EGL, Austria; Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, Germany; Lithuanian Energy Institute (LEI), Lithuania; Risoe National Laboratory, Denmark BSERC, Bulgaria – sub-contractor
Description
The project’s primary objective was to involve interested parties throughout the EU in the debate on how to optimise the use of renewable electricity, with a view to establishing a long-term, stable deployment of electricity from renewable resources (RES-E). With the need to develop a common European vision, the project also set out to identify best practice for the implementation of the different types of support such as feed-in tariffs, premium systems and quota obligations, based on green certificates. The cost/benefit ratio was examined on a national level and consideration given to how to share benefits under a future, coordinated European policy. The long-standing Green-X modelling and analysis tool was applied, allowing in-depth examination of RES-E deployment and accompanying transfer costs due to the promotion of RES-E on country-wide, sectoral and technology levels in a real-world energy policy context.