Johannes Thema (Wuppertal Institute) presented main COMBI findings on 7 June 2018 at the European Sustainable Energy Week in the session on “Learning from experience and involving energy-citizens; two ways of improving energy-related policymaking”
COMBI event
Register now! COMBI final conference: May 17
Launch of online tool and final project conference in Brussels
On 17 May 2018 in Brussels, COMBI organizes the final project conference, where we officially launch our online tool quantifying the multiple impacts of Energy Efficiency. Registration for the event until 10th May!
Background: The EU follows the „energy efficiency first“ principle – with one key reason being that efficiency not only brings energy and greenhouse gas savings but also a range of multiple benefits or impacts. But of what size are impacts? How can they be included in cost-benefit analysis? Do they really bring added value to the policy discourse and should energy policy departments team up with others to reap those benefits?
Audience invited: The event is dedicated to policymakers and their assistants, consultants, to researchers and journalists on the field, but open to the general public. Participation is free of charge.
Programme: Keynotes will explain the current value of quantifying multiple impacts in policymaking from an international perspective (Kathleen Gaffney, IEA) and from an EU perspective (Paul Hodson, DG ENER, Head of Energy Efficiency Unit).
COMBI project researchers present approaches and findings for the quantifications of multiple impacts of energy efficiency in the EU by 2030. Most important impact quantifications have been included to an online tool that will be launched during the event and will be available immediately to participants open-access.
The conference also presents ex-post assessments and results from other European projects and models and discusses if and how multiple impacts can contribute to strengthen the case for energy efficiency in the future.
Conference program available here.
Date: 17 May 2018, 13.00-17.30 CET
Venue: First Euroflat Hotel, Boulevard Charlemagne 50, 1000 Brussels
The organizer reserves the right to make changes to the event program.
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Questions on registration & organisation: info@abud.hu
Questions on content & press contact: info@combi-project.eu
COMBI @ IEA Multiple Benefits workshop 5-7 March
COMBI results and a preview of the online tool for exploring project results will be presented in two sessions at an IEA workshop in Paris on March 5-7:
Beyond energy savings: The multiple benefits of energy efficiency
COMBI @ CA EED
COMBI researchers presented the project, preliminary findings and the draft online tool at the Concerted Action EED plenary in Sofia on October 20, 2017. Find presentations downloadable from the CA EED website.
COMBI lecture at Jadavpur University
COMBI-researcher Souran Chatterjee (partner CEU/ABUD) gave a lecture on
Productivity impact from multiple impact perspective
Full economic assessment is required to understand the full potential of any energy policy. However, today these assessments often do not include important factors such as co-benefits/multiple impacts of any energy policy. The inclusion of additional impact into decision-making analysis may influence any policy maker to design a better policy portfolio. Most of the time, multiple impacts of energy efficiency policy are not incorporated into ex-ante policy analysis due to the absence of mature methodologies. Therefore, this research contributes to the methodological tool box by proposing the solutions to the key methodological challenges of aggregation of multiple impacts including the risks of double counting.
COMBI at World Sustainable Energy Days
COMBI-researcher Souran Chatterjee presented first draft productivity impacts from the project at the World Sustainable Energy Days 2017 conference in Wels/Austria.
Full economic assessment is required to understand the full potential of any energy policy. However, today these assessments often do not include important factors such as co-benefits/multiple impacts of any energy policy. The inclusion of additional impact into decision-making analysis may influence policy maker to design a better policy portfolio. Most of the time, multiple impacts of energy efficiency policy are not incorporated into ex-ante policy analysis due to the absence of mature methodologies. Therefore, this research contributes to the methodological tool box by proposing solutions to the key methodological challenges of aggregation of multiple impacts including the risks of double counting.
