Welcome

to the first newsletter of the COMBI project (Calculating and Operationalising the Multiple Benefits of Energy Efficiency in Europe), which has started in March 2015. This newsletter will be issued bi-annually and inform about the main project proceedings and in the future on related publications and events on the topic. For more frequent updates, stay in touch via the social networks:

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For background information on the project, please visit our website combi-project.eu.

First project reports published

All project findings will be available online and reports can be downloaded in the download section of our website. Reports published to date:

Definition of energy efficiency improvement actions

 Description of end-use energy efficiency improvement (EEI) actions

This report lists and describes the (mostly technical) EEI actions in the residential, tertiary, transport and industry sector that will be the main input for the multiple impact quantification work.

Literature reviews

Literature review on quantification methodologies (general  challenges)

Literature review on avoided air pollution impacts of energy efficiency measures

Literature review on resource benefits

Literature review on social welfare impacts of energy efficiency

Literature review on macro-economic effects of energy efficiency

Literature review on energy security, (power reliability/ avoided capacity costs)

All PDF reports at combi-project.eu/downloads

Scientific advisory board

The COMBI work on impact quantification and aggregation methodology development is supervised by a board of external scientific advisors. We are happy to benefit from the expertise of the following advisors:

• Diego Azqueta, Universidad de Alcalá 
• Nina Campbell, Databuild 
• Konstantinos Chalvatzis, Norwich Business School 
• Lisa Emberson, University of York 
• Fritz Hinterberger, Sustainable Europe Research Institute (SERI) 
• Isabella Maschio, Joint Research Council (JRC)
• Serena Pontoglio, EU Commission/DG ENER
• Keywan Riahi, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) 
• Patrik Söderholm, Lulea University of Technology 
• Christoph von Stechow, Mercator Research Institute for Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC)  

The advisory board gathered for a first meeting on October 16, 2015.

Next steps

With the project meeting on October 15-16, COMBI started the work on the methodology development for the single impacts and for their aggregation. First draft methodologies will be presented in the next newsletter.

For any questions and remarks send an email to info@combi-project.eu