POLICY RELEVANCE. ECES focuses on energy storage technologies that allow transition to a low-carbon, energy secure economy in consistent with the 2011 IEA Ministerial Communique and Action Plan. XXXX chairman continues to report summarized results of actual work regularly to the EUWP and IEA, in a format and structure proposed by IEA Secretariat. ECES fosters the use of its findings in IEA analysis such as Energy Technology Roadmap and Energy Technology Perspectives. The European Commission is a contracting party of ECES, but has been inactive. In the next term, we will seek to renew this collaboration and further improve this connection to feed our results to the European Commission. XXXX will continue collaboration with the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) in the new term. ECES delegates are responsible to transfer the work of ECES to policy makers of their countries. They can report twice a year, after each ExCo meeting and if necessary, also even more to contact persons in the national governments. For more efficient interaction ExCo, EUWP and CERT delegates should have an active contact. Participating countries are encouraged to plan annual “National ECES implementing agreement days” to improve the coordination and dissemination between national delegates, local experts, policy makers in order to disseminate the results from ECES Annexes. To improve policy relevance of ECES, ExCo has realized that key performance indicators (KPI) need to be described for the different applications. In the next term we will develop KPI for several highlighting applications including different storage technologies.
POLICY RELEVANCE. The adoption of the Lisbon Treaty has been the result of a long, heavy inward-looking negotiation process in the EU and many are afraid to lift the lid on the political ‘Pandora’s box’ of Treaty negotiations again soon. This strong appeal is understandable from a policy negotiator’s perspective, but it should not relieve academic researchers of the obligation to consider the effects of Treaty provisions and evolved legal competences in practice. Seeing the transitions needed for sustainable development within the planetary boundaries of the Earth according to recent international agreements such as the Paris Agreement and the UN Agenda 2030, it is increasingly crucial that these Treaty provisions are checked for their flexibility. This dissertation has outlined the practicalities of these Treaty provisions in three specific complex mixed competence arrangements: alternative fuel policies, Team EU in UNFCCC climate negotiations and implementation of the UN Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals. Legal competences are influential in the three case studies, mostly in connection with the intervening variables. The empirical and legal material reveals that the Treaty and the principle of loyal cooperation is often used in practice. The near inevitability that Member State actors will ultimately not ‘colour outside the lines’ of the shared mandate, especially in multilateral negotiations, could be a soothing idea. However, the other side of the coin is that the EU and Member State actors tend to limit and control each other while forgetting to think outside of the box. This lack of innovation and ambition is harmful specifically for current sustainable development policies, as these are in dire need of transformation. There are examples where the Treaty provisions and the Court’s case law are not used and there is an apparent hesitation to ask the Court for clarity. The objectives behind this legal ‘misbehaviour’ are often not cutting red tape or better regulation for the ‘sustainable development of the Earth’645, but are instead the result of purely political considerations. Examples include keeping the wieldy ‘Team EU’ approach in climate negotiations, not starting infringement proceedings against Member States on slanted fuel policies and keeping the situation of SDG implementation and Commission coordination as indulgent as it is now. It is expected that this situation will soon change and legal arguments will become (more) manifest in explaining ...
POLICY RELEVANCE. The work of ETSAP is directly linked with policy making. ETSAP tools are currently used by the EU Joint research Centre (JRC) to analyse future technology development, by the IEA in the ETP series and related energy technology roadmaps and by national governments formulating energy and environmental policies. MARKAL/TIMES is listed as one of the four selected modelling tools in the UNFCCC guide for preparing the national communications for non-Annex I parties. In order to continue the close relationship between the ETSAP outputs and policy making, the contracting parties will
POLICY RELEVANCE. The work of ETSAP is directly linked with policy making. The ETSAP tools are currently used by the JRC to analyse future technology development, by the IEA in the ETP series and related energy technology roadmaps and by national governments since most of the contracting parties of ETSAP contribute to national policy making, formulating energy and environmental policies. MARKAL/TIMES is listed as one of the four selected modelling tools in the UNFCC guide for preparing the national communications for non-Annex I parties. ETSAP’s tools have been used to provide advice in policy making at different geographical scales. Global Models, (IEA Energy Technology Perspective model, the original TIMES Integrated Assessment Model (TIAM), several derived TIAM models from different modelling teams, the Global TIMES Model of the European Fusion Development Agreement, the TIMES G5 model and the Global Multi- regional MARKAL Model), regional models (the Pan-European TIMES model, MARKAL-TIMES Models for Europe, Asia and North America), a large number of applications from national models of 32 countries and applications of Sub-National Models (Western China, Reunion Island, Lombardy, Pavia, Southwest region of Sweden, Kathmandu Valley) and local models for rural areas and cities are presented in detail in the Final Report of Annex XI and Annex XII that cover he period from 2009 until 2015. An overview of the activities of ETSAP members, related projects and applications of ETSAP tools, is presented in Section 9. The IET/JRC in Petten is using a TIMES model for all the EU member states which is used in the assessment of future technology options in the path to a low carbon economy in Europe. The Energy Modelling Forum researchers are examining robust transition policies towards climate sustainable systems after 2100 using ETSAP-TIAM. Several groups use global, multi-regional and national models to explore the impact of different post-Kyoto regimes. Pan European and member states’ models are used to identify the least expensive combination of measures that satisfy the demanding EC targets for 2020.
