This report was produced as part of the THINK project. Existing demand-pull measures, namely carbon pricing and the Renewables Directive, will be insufficient to deliver an adequate and timely level of private RD&D in new clean energy technologies. Thus, in order to reach the EU 2020 and 2050...

This report was produced as part of the THINK project. In March 2007, the European Council decided on a new integrated climate and energy policy designed to combat climate change, reduce import dependence and increase the competitiveness of the internal energy market. Two years later, a set of...

This report was produced as part of the THINK project. In order to accelerate the infrastructure investments that are important for the achievement of the EU energy policy objectives, the European Commission has proposed an Energy Infrastructure package. The package includes a new Regulation on...

This report was produced as part of the THINK project. Existing demand-pull measures, namely carbon pricing and the Renewables Directive, will be insufficient to deliver an adequate and timely level of private RD&D in new clean energy technologies. Thus, in order to reach the EU 2020 and 2050...

This report was produced as part of the THINK project. In March 2007, the European Council decided on a new integrated climate and energy policy designed to combat climate change, reduce import dependence and increase the competitiveness of the internal energy market. Two years later, a set of...

There is no general consensus on the most suitable method for allocating the cost of a transmission network among its users. Most regulators are using some measure of network utilization as the basic criterion for transmission tariff design, being marginal participations (areas of influence) and...

District heating in general is seen as an important opportunity to decarbonise the heating sector especially in urban areas and therefore important to reach European and global climate goals. In this case study we analyse possible future scenarios for the city of Brasov, Romania. Like in many...