REPORTS ON INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES (RS 1a)

• Cost development – an analysis based on experience curve
• LCA of background processes
• Offshore WIND technology
• PV technology
• BIOMASS technology
• NUCLEAR
• SOLAR thermal
• FUELL CELL
• WAVE AND TIDAL
• HYDROGEN

REPORTS ON MONETARY VALUATION METHODOLOGIES (RS 1b)

• Model specification for the integration of external cost in economy and energy modelling
• Report on the methodology for the implementation of the precautionary principle
• Description of updated and extended draft tools for the detailed site-dependent assessment of external costs

REPORTS ON THE IMPACT ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGIES (RS 1b)

• Report on the analysis on average and marginal avoidance costs of greenhouse gas emissions
• Updated report on the analysis on marginal damage costs of greenhouse gas emissions
• Final Report on the monetary valuation of mortality and morbidity risks from air pollution Assessment of Biodiversity Losses - Final Report
• A set of concentration-response functions
• Methodological improvements for the assessment of external costs due to indirect human exposure through ingestion and due to further substances so far unaddressed

REPORTS ON THE EXTERNALITIES GENERATED FROM TRANSPORT OF THE ENERGY CARRIERS (RS 1c)

OIL

• Assessment of risk reduction potential due to new technology and regulation
• Burdens from oil transportation phase of oil by pipeline and by tanker route
• Impacts associated to oil extraction activities and benefit transfer analysis
• Additional potential externalities due to accidents in the oil chain (Part 1: Oil extraction and transportation by tanker route)
• Additional potential externalities due to accidents in the oil chain (Part 2: Oil pipelines)
• Economic evaluation of externalities due to extraction and transport of oil

NATURAL GAS

• Burdens, Impacts and externalities from natural gas chain

HYDROGEN

• Impacts Associated to Hydrogen Transport. Estimates of the Externalities Associated with the Transport of Hydrogen to the EU

THE NEEDS POLICY SCENARIOS (RS 2a)

• The baseline scenario

REPORT ON CRITERIA AND INDICATORS (RS 2b)

• Establishment of social criteria for energy systems. Updated report on social indicators accommodating Delphi results

• Environmental, economic and social criteria and indicators for sustainability assessment of energy technologies

• Multicriteria methodology for the NEEDS project

• Requirement analysis for multicriteria analysis in NEEDS RS2b

• The Role of Monetary Valuation of Externalities and Cost Benefit Analysis in Energy Policy Making Processes

THE NEEDS SURVEYS (RS 2b)

•  Reporting and evaluation of the NEEDS survey 1 on the “externality concept”