Publications

Article

We extend and use the PRIMES energy model to explore pathways towards climate-neutrality in the EU by 2050 and 2070 and analyse implications on energy demand, supply and costs. We draw on the modelling, data and scenario framework developed by the authors to support the European Commission’s “Clean Planet for […]

Article

The EU decarbonization strategy foresees deep cuts in CO2 in the transport sector. Investment in infrastructure, manufacturing of new technology vehicles and production of alternative fuels induce macroeconomic changes in activity and employment for both national and regional economies. The objective of the paper is to present a newly built […]

By Ioannis Charalampidis, Panagiotis Karkatsoulis, Pantelis Capros

The paper presents a newly built model used to simulate the European Union (EU) internal electricity market and assess market reform policies. The model performs an hourly simulation of all stages of the wholesale markets at a Pan-European scale, covering the sequence of day-ahead, intra-day, and balancing/reserve auctions. The model […]

By Maria Kannavou, Marilena Zampara, Pantelis Capros

Article

This paper explores the alternative roles hydrogen can play in the future European Union (EU) energy system, within the transition towards a carbon-neutral EU economy by 2050, following the latest policy developments after the COP21 agreement in Paris in 2015. Hydrogen could serve as an end-use fuel, a feedstock to […]

By Alessia De Vita, Georgios Zazias, Pantelis Capros, Stavroula Evangelopoulou

Article

The European Commission (EC) has set ambitious CO2 emission reduction objectives for the transport sector by 2050. In this context, most decarbonisation scenarios for transport foresee large market penetration of electric vehicles in 2030 and 2050. The emergence of electrified car mobility is, however, uncertain due to various barriers such […]

By Georgios Zazias, Pantelis Capros, Pelopidas Siskos, Stergios Statharas, Yannis Moysoglou

Article

The paper presents a newly developed economic-engineering model of the buildings sector and its implementation for all the European Union (EU) Member States (MS), designed to study in detail ambitious energy efficiency strategies and policies, in the context of deep decarbonisation in the long term. The model has been used […]

By Alessia De Vita, Pantelis Capros, Theofano Fotiou

The European Commission introduced in 2018, for the first time, CO2 emission standards for truck manufacturers, to incite additional reduction in the road transport CO2 emissions; trucks represent the second major contributor to CO2emissions in the EU road transport. This paper presents a model based analysis which simulates the implementation of such […]

By Moysoglou Y., Pelopidas Siskos

The objective of the study which was prepared in the context of the ASSET study for DG ENERGY, was to present a detailed qualitative and quantitative analysis of the employment and labour market impacts induced by ambitious deployment of RES. The energy system transition from fossil fuels to RES and […]

By Leonidas Paroussos, Panagiotis Fragkos, Pantelis Capros, Sil Boeve, Thobias Sach

Article

The transport sector decarbonisation represents an essential part of the GHG emissions reduction strategy of the EU for the 2030 and 2050 horizon. (Energy Policy, Volume 121 (2018), Pages 48–60)

By Apostolos Petropoulos, Georgios Zazias, Pantelis Capros, Pelopidas Siskos, Stavroula Evangelopoulou

GHG emission reduction, Market and policy failure, Model based assessment, Power generation and transport systems analysis, Transport sector decarbonisation,

Report

"Assessing the impacts of selected options for regulating CO2 emissions from new passenger cars and vans after 2020",Final Report for the European Commission, DG Climate Action, 19 February 2018.

By Apostolos Petropoulos, Georgios Zazias, Ian Skinner, Kostas Fragkiadakis, Leonidas Paroussos, Nikolas Hill, Pelopidas Siskos

DG Climate Action, Final Report for the European Commission,

Presentation

"Coupling national and global models to explore policy impacts of NDCs", Energy Policy, Volume 118, July 2018, Pages 462–473

By Alexandre Köberle, Chen-Min He, Gokul Iyer, Ken Oshiro, Kostas Fragkiadakis, Leonidas Paroussos, Panagiotis Fragkos, Roberta Pierfederici, Saritha Vishwanathan

global models, impacts of NDCs, national models,

Article

"Enhancing global climate policy ambition towards a 1.5°C stabilization: a short-term multi-model assessment", Environmental Research Letters

By Alban Kitous, Bert Saveyn, Christoph Bertram, Detlef van Vuuren, Elmar Kriegler, Gunnar Luderer, Harmen Sytze de Boer, Kimon Keramidas, Kostas Fragkiadakis, Lara Alelui Reisa, Laurent Drouet, Lavinia Baumstark, Leonidas Paroussos, Oliver Fricko, Shinichiro Fujimori, Zoi Vrontisi

global climate policy, multi-model, short-term,