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RAP works directly with European institutions and Member States to advance energy efficiency, renewable power and other low-carbon resources while assuring economic competitiveness and robust regional energy security.
RAP provides ongoing support to energy regulators and government agencies in their efforts to decarbonise the European power grid and meet the EU's ambitious goals for greenhouse gas reduction.
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Beyond Capacity Markets: Delivering Capability Resources to Europe's Decarbonised Power System
Delivering a reliable power supply to consumers has always been a central objective of market design and various solutions to this challenge have been adopted in Europe and elsewhere. In the context of...
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Roadmap 2050: Decarbonising Europe
In July 2008 the leaders of the EU and the G8 announced a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. The European Council set the objective for Europe at 80 to 95 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. The Roadmap 2050 study demonstrates to policymakers and businesses the feasibility of achieving 80 percent greenhouse gas emission reductions in Europe by 2050 using today’s technologies. A new accompanying study - “Power Perspectives 2030: On the Road to a Decarbonised Power Sector” - shows us what needs to be done by 2030 and helps policymakers and business alike to navigate the medium term path to a fully decarbonised power sector in the EU by 2050.
Learn MoreThe Challenge to Meet EU's 2020 Efficiency Goals
The EU has set a policy target of achieving 20 percent energy savings by 2020, thereby saving consumers money, increasing the security of supply, reducing emissions and creating jobs. The EU faces several challenges in meeting this goal, and is taking steps to meet it, including issuing the Energy Efficiency Action Plan 2011 and revising the End-Use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive .
Learn MoreTapping Efficiency in Homes
Roughly half of all efficiency and/or carbon emission reduction in North American and European buildings can be achieved through retrofit improvements to existing homes. Achieving the efficiency potential will require a new strategy to treat buildings collectively as a critical component of the energy infrastructure.
Learn MoreThe EU's Electricity Market Reform: Creating a Decarbonised, Reliable and Affordable Power System
The European Climate Foundation's Roadmap 2050 study and other European reports highlight the need for Europe to decarbonise its power sector by the 2030s in order to achieve its economy-wide 2050 carbon reduction targets. RAP is working with Member States, EU policymakers and stakeholders to design an optimal mix of policies and market rules that will attract the needed investment in zero and low-carbon resources.
Learn MoreEU Emissions Trading Scheme and an Optimal Mix of Climate Policies
The Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) creates a framework for reducing EU-wide emissions by placing a price on emitting carbon. As the third phase of the ETS approaches, which will see auctioning of allowances from 2013, it has become increasingly clear that the price signal sent by the ETS will require other policies to drive the deep emissions reductions needed by 2050.
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