Workshop – Study on circular approaches for a sustainable and affordable clean energy transition
Funded under the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2021-2022 (Cluster 5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility) through a public procurement, the ‘Study on circular approaches for a sustainable and affordable clean energy transition’ aims to develop a robust assessment methodology designed to evaluate the multifaceted impacts of clean energy technologies on the following dimensions:
- Sustainability (covering environmental, social, and economic aspects);
- Circularity, and
- EU resilience, and technological autonomy.
This methodology will be tailored to accommodate different Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) within the framework of the EU's Horizon Europe programme for Research and Innovation under Cluster 5 Destination 3.
Objective of this workshop: As an initial step, the current state of the art regarding methodologies for the assessment of the impact of innovative (clean energy) technologies on the above dimensions will be examined. This includes existing methodologies and relevant case studies. The objective of this online workshop will be two-fold:
- to briefly present the overview of possible methodological approaches to assessing innovative clean energy technologies and key recommendations identified for designing better assessment methodology and guidelines.
- to gather inputs from the workshop participants on the needs of Horizon Europe Project beneficiaries for assessing sustainability, circularity, EU resilience and technological autonomy in the development of innovative clean energy technologies.
Note: the consultation workshop will be used as leverage to promote the involvement of the Horizon Europe projects’ beneficiaries in the pilot phase and define a pool of possible candidates for the case studies to test the methodology and the specific guidelines developed.
The inputs gathered during the workshop will help define the key requirements or specificities that will be considered when designing the methodology that will support Horizon Europe project beneficiaries to voluntarily assess sustainability, circularity, EU resilience and technological autonomy in the development of the following innovative clean energy technologies:
- Solar photovoltaics (solar PV),
- Concentrated solar power and solar thermal energy,
- Wind power energy (including offshore and onshore wind turbines, floating wind farms, and vertical axis wind turbines),
- Ocean energy (including tidal energy and wave energy),
- Bioenergy and (advanced) biofuels,
- Deep geothermal heat and power,
- Hydropower & pumped hydropower storage,
- Carbon Capture and Storage/Utilisation (CCS/CCU),
- Synthetic fuels (including e-ammonia, e-methanol, and other e-fuels such as e-kerosene, e-CH4, e-diesel, etc.),
- Solar fuels (fuels produced using solar photonic or thermal energy),
- Energy storage (including thermal energy storage and excluding batteries),
- Heat pumps (including domestic and industrial heat pumps),
- Electricity networks (including HVDC, advanced metering infrastructure, etc.),
- Thermal energy networks (including heating and cooling infrastructure).
The draft agenda is available on this link and you can register here.
