1. LOGO of SL Introduction to the NEEDS project SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME [6.1] [ Sustainable Energy Systems] Andrea Ricci, coordinator ISIS Cairo, 28 January 2008

2. LOGO of SL NEEDS New Energy Externalities Development for Sustainability Integrated Project within FP6 Duration: 48 months (+6), started September 2004 66 partners (15% are SMEs), representing Universities, Research Institutions, Industry and NGOs from 27 Countries (19 EU members, 3 MED, 5 ‘ Other ’ ) Leading partners: ISIS (IT) – Coordinator DLR (DE) IER Stuttgart (DE) OME (FR) Uni Prague (CZ) CNR-IMAA (IT) PSI (CH) SWECO (NO) 1118 p.m; 11.7 MEuro (7.6 MEuro financed by EC)

3. LOGO of SL Overall objective To evaluate the full costs and benefits (i.e. direct + external) of energy policies and of future energy systems, both at the level of individual countries and for the enlarged EU as a whole

4. LOGO of SL Objectives and targeted innovation Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of new energy technologies for which the current LCA knowledge is insufficient Monetary valuation of externalities associated to energy production, transport, conversion and use, with major innovation in : methods impacts so far insufficiently addressed availability and reliability of quantitative evidence Development of a consistent and robust analytical platform allowing to integrate the full range of information and data on LCA and external costs into a Pan-European modelling framework

5. LOGO of SL Objectives and targeted innovation (2) Technology roadmap and stakeholders perspective terms and conditions for an effective formulation and implementation of long term strategies based on the internalisation of external costs robustness of the research results under various stakeholder perspectives Transferability and generalisation calculating, transferring and presenting the uncertainty of default values for average/aggregate external costs Integration structured “protocol” to facilitate the widespread use of the integrated analysis framework

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7. The NEEDS products Reports, including (i) documents that illustrate methodological issues, the science behind them and the process that has led to their development (ii) documents that present the results obtained (both qualitative and quantitative) Databases Tools, i.e. software that is fully or partially available to third parties. LCA database Technology repository Stakeholders database Database of electricity generation technology specific sustainability indicators … Ecosense Web Integrated modelling platform Country models Pan European model Web based platform for elicitation of stakeholders preferences …

8. LOGO of SL Providing inputs to energy policies Who are the target users of the NEEDS results? Which policy queries can be answered by NEEDS? In which format and with what functionalities will the NEEDS results be provided to the users? How will it practically be possible to access and exploit the NEEDS products? What will happen once the NEEDS project is finalised?

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10. LOGO of SL Addressing policy queries … by using evidence directly produced by the project

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12. LOGO of SL Policy queries

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14. LOGO of SL Policy queries Using evidence directly produced by the project (simple) elaboration of the direct evidence using the NEEDS modelling results running the NEEDS models with new sets of assumptions Introducing changes in the modelling tools Carrying out additional, novel research

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16. LOGO of SL Policy queries Using evidence directly produced by the project (simple) elaboration of the direct evidence using the NEEDS modelling results running the NEEDS models with new sets of assumptions Introducing changes in the modelling tools Carrying out additional, novel research

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18. LOGO of SL Policy queries Using evidence directly produced by the project (simple) elaboration of the direct evidence using the NEEDS modelling results running the NEEDS models with new sets of assumptions Introducing changes in the modelling tools Carrying out additional, novel research

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20. LOGO of SL Policy queries Using evidence directly produced by the project (simple) elaboration of the direct evidence using the NEEDS modelling results running the NEEDS models with new sets of assumptions Introducing changes in the modelling tools Carrying out additional, novel research

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22. LOGO of SL NEEDS beyond NEEDS Continuing access to the NEEDS results and tools Continuing dissemination including website Updating of the NEEDS databases Improvement (coverage, new data) of the NEEDS databases New policy-driven elaborations of NEEDS results New model runs Improvement of the modelling platform New research