Trinomics has been awarded a study contract by the European Parliament’s ITRE Committee, in collaboration with Aether Ltd and Energiaklub, to research and analyse key decisions for the realisation of a fully integrated energy market. The overall EU energy strategy is years determined by three main pillars: competitiveness, climate and security of supply. However, balancing…
BUILD UP Skills is a multi-annual EU funding initiative under the framework of the Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE) programme. Build UP Skills has been implemented in all EU Member States as well as in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Norway, supporting the realisation of EU targets through enhancing workers’ skills. In relation to…
Report: Prospective scenarios for the aluminium industry (2 MB) The aim of this project carried out for the Joint Research Centre of the European Union was to perform an in-depth analysis of the technological innovation that could take place in the aluminium sector in the EU and Iceland and a quantification of their impact on…
The book ‘Energie voor groene welvaart’ (‘Energy for green welfare’), written by Trinomics senior consultant Dr Stephan Slingerland, is now available from Aeneas Publishers. The book discusses three trends in the global energy sector that currently take place at the same time: a sharp rise in the share of renewable energy, continuing investments in fossil…
Report: Gasrotonde (1 MB) De beslissing van Minister Kamp om de gasproductie in Groningen terug te schroeven zet onherroepelijk druk op de status van Nederland als ‘gasland’. Het besluit mag dan politiek gezien onafwendbaar zijn, het zorgt voor stevige onzekerheid ten opzichte van onze energievoorziening in het algemeen, en het plan om van Nederland de…
Trinomics, in collaboration with Technopolis, has been selected by the European Commission’s DG Energy to carry out the mid-term evaluation of Directive 2009/119/EC which requires EU Member States have to maintain minimum stocks of crude oil and/or petroleum products. This obligation was imposed first in 1968, and the legislation was revised in 2009 with the…
Trinomics has been awarded a service contract by the European Environment Agency to support the EEA in developing a better tool (European Energy Efficiency Index) to assess the progress towards the energy efficiency target of a 20% reduction in primary energy consumption by 2020. The objective of the tool is to: Compare information on progress…
Report: The Balance of Power – Flexibility Options for the Dutch Electricity Market (final report) (3 MB) The report, ‘The Balance of Power – Flexibility Options for the Dutch Electricity Market’, was written for the Dutch science, technology and innovation organisation TNO. Given the rapidly increasing share of variable renewable electricity sources like solar and wind and…
Report: Energy governance for the future (4 MB) An overview of EU energy governance was prepared for the ITRE Committee (Industry, Research and Energy) of the European Parliament. The document gives an insight into the institutions, policies, issues and policy interactions in practice around the three EU energy policy pillars: climate change, competitiveness and security…
Koen Rademaekers, Managing director at Trinomics, and co-author of a study about the subject for the ITRE Committee (European Parliament) gave an interview to Natural Gas Europe discussing the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership’s effect on the European energy markets. He does not see a significant effect “because of i. low barriers between the two countries in the oil…
For the January 2015 edition of the Dutch magazine on international relations ‘Internationale Spectator’, TEC Consultants Stephan Slingerland and Hans Bolscher wrote an article entitled ‘Climate, Energy and Resources – When will the trend reversal finally arrive?’ (in Dutch). The article discusses international trends in climate, energy and resources for the year 2015. Will the…
Report: Management-summary -Review-Topsector-Energie-NL (412 KB) Report: Review-Topsector-Energie-part1 NL (3 MB) Report: Review-Topsector-Energie-part2 NL (913 KB) In the ‘Topsector Energie’ Programme of the Dutch Government, public research institutions and private companies are cooperating in energy innovation. The programme is co-funded by the government and the participating private partners. So far, more than 130 projects have been…
Report: TTIP (3 MB) This month our study on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) for the European Parliament (ITRE Committee) came in the news. This study assessed whether and to which extent European energy markets and manufacturing industries would be affected by the TTIP. Although the negotiations are still on-going, the analysis shows…
Report: Building_certification_schemes (4 MB) In December 2014, Trinomics together with Ecofys and TNO (and several local subcontractors) finalised a market study on the voluntary common EU certification scheme for non-residential buildings, in accordance with EPBD Article 11(9), for DG Energy, European Commission. The study gave an overview of existing voluntary schemes and aimed at analysing…
Trinomics, as lead partner, in collaboration with DNV GL, Enerdata, Nuclear Research and Consultancy (NRG) and Technopolis Group has been selected by the Directorate-General for Energy in the European Commission as one of the operators for a major Framework Agreement for conducting Impact Assessments and Evaluation (ex-ante, intermediate and ex-post) in the field of Energy.…
Trinomics has recently completed a market study of the (renewable) energy sector in Kenya, for the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN) in Nairobi, to compile recommendations for EKN on how to formulate their economic diplomacy activities in Kenya. Special attention was paid to opportunities for the Dutch business community and public interventions…
Trinomics has been contracted by the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) to support them in developing baseline analysis on skills and jobs in sustainable energy in the Caribbean. Currently, Trinomics (together with TNO Caribbean Branch Office and ASU Arizona State University) is carrying out an IDB-funded regional project “Building capacity and Regional Integration for the…
Trinomics, as lead partner, in collaboration with TNO, has been awarded a study contract by the European Environment Agency. The team will carry out an assessment of the extent to which the thermal power sector in Member States and the EU has the potential to facilitate the necessary transition towards long-term EU energy and climate…
Trinomics has been awarded a study contract by the European Parliament’s ITRE Committee to produce a briefing paper on ‘EU energy governance: how does it work?’. In May 2014 a new European Parliament (EP) was elected. This means also that a new ITRE Committee will start its work soon, with in it new members that…
Report: Impacts of Ecodesign & EL on R&D (3 MB) The Ecodesign and Labelling directives have the potential to not only deliver energy savings but also to positively impact the innovation activities and competitiveness of the manufacturers of the regulated products. With regard to the upcoming revision of the directives in 2014, it is therefore…
Trinomics, in collaboration with CE Delft (lead), has been awarded an important contract by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs to evaluate the performance and future directions of the Dutch ‘Topsector Energy’ (TSE). Since 2011, the Dutch ‘Topsector Energy’ coordinates public research and innovation in the field of energy. So far, more than 130 projects…
Trinomics has been awarded a study contract by the European Parliament’s ITRE Committee to assess the potential impacts of TTIP on the European energy markets and manufacturing industries. Since 2013, the European Union and the United States are negotiating a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) also known in the United States as the Transatlantic…
Trinomics has been awarded a contract by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN) in Nairobi to produce a market study in order to strengthen economic cooperation between Kenya and the Netherlands in the (renewable) energy sector. Trinomics will conduct this market study of the (renewable) energy sector in Kenya, to arrive at…
Trinomics, in collaboration with TNO’s Caribbean Branch Office (lead) and Arizona State University, has been awarded a major contract by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to provide a detailed assessment of the technical and professional capacity for sustainable energy and ICT in Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Jamaica. There is an increasing need for energy in…
In 2012, the European Commission asked the team to assist with the selection of PCI for new electricity grid infrastructures as part of a new planning process that is based on involvement of stakeholders in several working groups. The main objectives of the study were to develop together with the Commission a methodology for assessing the…
Report: Economic Impacts of Shale Gas in the Netherlands – FINAL REPORT (2 MB) The rapid developments of shale gas particularly in North-America continue to stir up a lively debate about the pros and cons of shale gas worldwide, including in the Netherlands. Independent of the Dutch decision to allow for, or prohibit, exploratory drilling…
Trinomics, as lead partner, in collaboration with Oeko Institute e.V, Aether and AF-Mercados EMI has been selected by the European Parliament for the Framework Agreement on the provision of external expertise on regulatory and policy issues in the field of energy and climate change policies. Much of the political and legislative work of the Parliament…