REACCESS

The objectives of the action are:

• Analysing present policies concerning EU MS and Community targets for energy import.
• Evaluating technical, economical and environmental characteristics of present and future energy corridors within Europe and among Europe and the supplying regions of the World, taking into account the different typology of infrastructures and technologies, the flows and the distances involved for oil, natural gas, coal, electricity, uranium, biomass and hydrogen.
• Introducing suitable parameters and indicators (including technical and socio-economical reliability) and cost components (investment, O&M, externalities) incorporating the above mentioned information, which may help a global evaluation of supply options (energy vectors, infrastructures, origins of the sources) and their impacts on economy, society, energy and environment toward sustainability.
• Identifying main energy corridors to EU27+ for primary/secondary energy commodities and electricity.
• Incorporating these energy main corridors into an adapted version of the pan-EU TIMES model (PEM) built in the framework of the NEEDS IP and other modelling tools such as ETSAP-TIAM.
• Analysing scenarios, in which for the fulfilment of the EU27+ energy needs, the import strategies of primary (and secondary) energy carriers compete with the evolution of energy efficiency policies, the introduction of new energy schemes and the development of renewables, in the framework of the EU environmental targets for 2030-2050. Some hypotheses related to the energy supply and demand strategies of regions outside of Europe will be also assumed, given their potential impacts on the international energy prices (e.g. China, India, OPEC, Russia, etc.)
• Training target groups of EU DGs to familiarize with the modelling tool.
• Developing interactions with commercial and industrial entities through an ad hoc Advisory Board.

Disseminating the project work and discussing the results of the analysed scenarios.