Energy Research

The EPISCOPE project focused on the energy refurbishment of houses in 20 European countries. Among the collected information, data regarding the construction period (different classes are defined in each country) and the building type (single-family, terraced house, multi-family house and apartment block) may be useful for risk assessment of large geographic areas.

In 2017 the Joint Research Centre developed a Power Plant Database for energy systems modelling (JRC-PPDB) in order to support the unit activities in energy systems modelling and knowledge management. As demand for open data is increasingly sought after, an open version (JRC-PPDB-OPEN), based on exclusively open data was designed. The JRC-PPDB-OPEN is primarily based on a collection of all the information published by ENTSO-E[1] on the European power plants at unit level. This information was extended, improved, and where possible corrected using information contained in open datasets published by WRI Powerwatch[2], Global energy observatory[3], FRESNA[4] and the EEA[5]. The JRC-PPDB-OPEN database is a first attempt towards a more detailed and coherent, albeit still incomplete, dataset of European power plants. Further work to expand and improve the information contained therein is called for. To this extend, and in order to facilitate the future involvement of third parties in such efforts, the associations between records in the different datasets (linkage) are included. [1] https://transparency.entsoe.eu/ [2] http://datasets.wri.org/dataset/globalpowerplantdatabase [3] http://globalenergyobservatory.org/ [4] https://github.com/FRESNA/powerplantmatching [5] https://prtr.eea.europa.eu/#/home

These are the final results of a study of fuel consumption and technologies used in the heating/cooling sector in EU28+3 (Tender ENER/C2/2014-641). Analysis of scenarios up to 2020 and 2030 and a related economic analysis were also carried out together with the identification of obstacles, best practices and policy recommendations.