SAPIENT: Systems Analysis Promoting Induced Energy Technology progress, for European Commission, DG Research
The SAPIENT project addresses the general issue of energy systems analysis by considering all driving forces and policies that induce energy technology improvement and by evaluating all environmental, energy and economic implications from such a improvement. For this purpose, the project uses existing tools, namely the major European large-scale energy system models, and in particular their version that incorporate endogenous energy technology evolution. Also the project aims at developing a model integrating decision oriented tool to evaluate R&D policy priorities under uncertainty. The systems analysis covers the European Union and the World, addresses the global warming policy issues in the presence of liberalised energy markets, and aims at constructing complete energy scenarios that will put forward the role of induced technology progress. The project deliverables include analytical results on RTD priorities, portfolio allocation and innovation policy, energy and emission scenario developments (for the EU and the World), analytical and quantified results illustrating the mechanisms of induced technological progress.
Project Coordinator
E3M-Lab, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (E3MLab/ICCS)
Partners
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut d' Economic et de Politique de l' Energie (CNRS/IEPE)
- Netherlands Energy Research Foundation (ECN)
- Joint Research Center, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (JRC.IPTS)
- Centre for Economic Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (CES.KULeuven)
- Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI)
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Environmentally Compatible Energy Strategies Project (ECS.IIASA)
- Institute of Energy Economics and the Rational Use of Energy, University of Stuttgart (IER)
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