Priorité thématique

ENERGIE

7ème PC de RDT&D de l’UE

CNRS, Lille, 6 avril 2006

Domenico Rossetti di Valdalbero

Commission européenne
DG de la Recherche
Tel.: +32-2-296.28.11
Fax: +32-2-299.49.91
E-mail: domenico.rossetti-di-valdalbero@cec.eu.int

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 CONTENT

 Global energy challenges

 EU energy RTD situation
 EU research
 EU energy RTD&D
 7th RTD&D Framework Programme (FP7)
 Timetable
 Information
 Sources

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 GLOBAL ENERGY CHALLENGES
CO2 EMISSIONS
50 Rest A sia
India In 2050:
45 China
Middle East  CO2 emissions 2.5 times higher than
40 A f rica
Latin A merica in 1990
35 CIS
Japan - Pacif ic  Non-Annex 1 countries represent 2/3
30 North A merica of world emissions
GtCO2

Europe
25
 Large share of electricity
20
15
10
5
0 50
1990 2001 2010 2020 2030 2050 45
Ele c tric ity
40 Re s -Ser-A g r
35 Trans port
Ind us try
30
GtCO2

25
20
15
10
5
0
2000 2010 2020 203 0 204 0 205 0
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 GLOBAL ENERGY CHALLENGES
INVESTMENTS – 16000 B$ by 2030

2%
19%

Electricity
Oil
Gas
19% 60% Coal

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 GLOBAL ENERGY CHALLENGES
OIL PRODUCTION AND DISCOVERY
Discovery
Gb/a
Production
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
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50

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 GLOBAL ENERGY CHALLENGES
TRANSPORT

Transport energy
per inhabitant Time in
transport per
Average speeds person

Time

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GLOBAL ENERGY CHALLENGES
WORLD ELECTRICITY

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 ENERGY SITUATION
EU-25 ENERGY MIX IN 2002
EU-25 in 2002
1680 Mtoe

RES
6% Coal
Nuclear 18%
15%

Gas
23%
Oil
38%

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 ENERGY SITUATION
EU-25 ELECTRICITY IN 2002
(in TWh)

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 ENERGY SITUATION
EU-25 DEMAND IN 2002 (in Mtoe)

500
450
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
Households and Transport Industry
services

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 EU RESEARCH
MAJOR POLICIES
Lisbon Strategy
EU to become the most competitive and dynamic
knowledge economy in the world

European Research Area

To get one genuine ERA (not 25 +1 Research
programmes)

Barcelona Summit
EU to achieve 3% of GDP dedicated to RTD in 2010

EU financial perspectives 2007-2013

Priority is given to research and innovation
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 EU RESEARCH
LEGISLATIVE PROCESS

● Framework Programme (EP and Council)

(~100 pp.)
● Specific Programmes (Council Decision)
(~ 400 pp.)
● Work Programmes (Commission)
(~1500 pp.)

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 EU RESEARCH
LEARNING BY SEARCHNIG AND BY DOING
Enhanced
Competitiveness
and Take-up-
Technology
R&D
Improvement

Learning by doing

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8 0 M illia

70
r d s€ E U R
Billion EU RESEARCH
67
BUDGET OF FP
?
70,00
60

50
50,00
40 1 3 ,2 2 1 4 ,9 6 1 7 ,5
6 ,6 40,00
30
5 ,3 9
20

10 3 ,7 5 17,50
13,22 14,96
0
1 9 8 4 -1 9 81 79 8 75,39
6,60
-1 9 91 19 9 0 -1 9 91 49 9 4 -1 9 91 89 9 8 -2 0 02 20 0 2 -2 0 02 60 0 7 -2 0 1 3

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 FP1 – FP7
CHANGING PRIORITIES
100
90 Other
80 Basic research
Energy Coordination & development
70 Space
60 Science and society
Training of researchers
% 50 Dissemination & exploitation

40 International cooperation
Socio-economic
30 Transport
Energy
20
Life sciences
10 Environment
Industrial & materials technology
0
IT and Communications
FP1

FP3

FP4

FP5

FP7
FP2

FP6

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 ENERGY RTD
OBJECTIVES
 Green Paper: « A European strategy for
sustainable, competitive and secure
energy »
 Security of EU energy supply
 Reduction of greenhouse gases and
pollutant emissions – Kyoto and post-Kyoto
 Increased competitiveness of EU industry

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 ENERGY RTD
LAW AND HISTORY
 In the current EU Treaty (Nice), Energy is essentially a
national policy
 Energy is only quoted under the title “Trans-European networks”
 Energy measures have been taken through “Environment”, “Internal
market” and “Approximation of laws”
 In the Constitutional Treaty, Energy is a “shared
competence”

 The EU research activities born in the energy field:

 European Coal and Steel Community (1951) covers the coal research
 European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) in 1957 covers the
nuclear research. The European Joint Research Centre has also been
created at that time
 Initial non sectorial research has been launched in 1974 (Council
resolutions)

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 ENERGY RTD
PROPORTIONS

 EU (public) research represent around 6% of total 25 Member

States research
 EU energy research represent around 12% of total EU research
 Fusion research is 100% done at EU-level
 Around 25% of (public) research in renewables is done at EU-
level
 Fossil fuels research made by the public sector is negligible in
comparison to the private sector

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 ENERGY RTD
PRINCIPLES AND MECHANISMS
 Public / Private partnerships are encouraged through:
 Shared-cost projects (STREP or IP)
 Technology platforms

 A large freedom is given to researchers:

 Call for Proposals (and not Call for Tenders)
 Consultative process, Info days, Expression of interest

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 ENERGY RTD
SPECIFICITIES

 Two Treaties:
 EC (FP: 2007-2013)
 EURATOM (FP: 2007-2011)

 Research and Demonstration

 Two DG involved (RTD and TREN)

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 FP7 (2007 – 2013)
SPECIFIC PROGRAMMES

Cooperation – Collaborative research

Ideas – Frontier Research

People – Human Potential

Capacities – Research Capacity

+
JRC (non-nuclear)

JRC (nuclear)

Euratom
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 FP7 - EURATOM

 Fission
 Management of radioactive waste
 Reactor systems
 Radiation protection
 Support for and access to research infrastructures
 Human resources and training including mobility

 Fusion
 The realisation of ITER
 R&D in preparation of ITER operation
 Technology activities in preparation of DEMO
 R&D activities for the longer term
 Human resources, education and training
 Infrastructures
 Responding to emerging and unforeseen policy needs
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 FP7 - COOPERATION

9 Thematic Priorities
1. Health
2. Food, agriculture and biotechnology
3. Information and communication technologies
4. Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials and new
production technologies
5. Energy
6. Environment (including climate change)
7. Transport (including aeronautics)
8. Socio-economic sciences and the humanities
9. Security and space
+ Fusion and nucl. Fission & radiation protection

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 FP7 - ENERGY

Objective
Transforming the current fossil-fuel based
energy system into a more sustainable one
based on a diverse portfolio of energy sources
and carriers combined with enhanced energy
efficiency, to address the pressing challenges
of security of supply and climate change,
whilst increasing the competitiveness of
Europe’s energy industries.

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 FP7 - ENERGY

Energy savings and energy

Hydrogen and fuel cells
efficiency

CO2 capture and storage

Renewable electricity generation technologies for zero
emission power generation

Renewable fuel production Clean coal technologies

Renewables for heating and

Smart energy networks
cooling

Knowledge for energy policy making

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 FP7 - ENERGY

Hydrogen and fuel

cells

Integrated action to provide a strong technological foundation

for competitive EU fuel cell and hydrogen industries, for
transport, stationary and portable applications.

The Hydrogen and Fuel Cells European Technology Platform

helps this activity by proposing an integrated research and
deployment strategy

Possible Joint Technology Initiative

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 FP7 - ENERGY

Hydrogen and fuel

cells

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 FP7 - ENERGY

Renewable electricity generation

Technologies to increase overall conversion

efficiency, driving down the cost of electricity
production
from indigenous renewable energy sources,
and the development and the demonstration of
technologies suited to different regional conditions

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 FP7 - ENERGY

Renewable fuel production

Integrated conversion technologies:

to develop and drive down the unit cost of solid,
liquid and gaseous (including hydrogen) fuels
produced from renewable energy sources,
aiming at the cost-effective production and use
of carbon-neutral fuels, in particular
liquid biofuels for transport

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 FP7 - ENERGY

Renewable for heating and cooling

Technologies to increase efficiencies and

drive down the costs of heating and cooling
from renewable energy sources,
ensuring their use in different regional conditions
(eg. district/dedicated space H&C,
building integration, energy storage)

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 FP7 - ENERGY
Renewables
BIOMASS: Plant-derived organic matter
HYDRO: Falling water

GEOTHERMAL: Earth energy

WIND: Moving air masses
SOLAR:
PHOTOVOLTAICS: Solar to electricity
SOLAR THERMAL: Solar to heat
OCEAN: Tides and waves
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 FP7 - ENERGY

Renewables

ELECTRICITY € cents / kWh

Biomass 5-8
Geothermal 5-8
Wind 4-9
Photovoltaics 25 -50
Coal / Gas / Nuclear 4
FUEL € cents / litre
Biofuel 40 -70
Gasoline and diesel 20 -30
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 FP7 - ENERGY
Renewables

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 ENERGY
TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS

 Biofuel

 Photovoltaics

 Hydrogen and Fuel cells

and others under discussion

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 FP7 - ENERGY

CO2 capture and storage technologies

for zero emission power generation

To drastically reduce the environmental impact

of fossil fuel use aiming at highly efficient power
generation plants with near zero emissions, based
on CO2 capture and storage technologies
(costs reduction to achieve less than 20€/tonne)

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 FP7 - ENERGY
CO2 capture and storage technologies
for zero emission power generation

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 FP7 - ENERGY

Clean coal technologies

To substantially improve
plant efficiency, reliability and cost through
the development and demonstration of
clean coal conversion technologies

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 FP7 - ENERGY

Clean coal technologies

From old…. To… new

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 FP7 - ENERGY

Smart energy networks

To increase the efficiency, safety and reliability

of the European electricity and gas systems and
networks
e.g. by transforming the current electricity grids into an
interactive (customers/operators) service network
and to remove obstacles to the large-scale deployment
and effective integration of distributed and
renewable energy sources

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 FP7 - ENERGY

Smart energy networks

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 FP7 - ENERGY

Energy savings and

energy efficiency

New concepts and technologies to

improve energy efficiency and savings for
buildings, services and industry.
This includes the integration of strategies and
technologies for energy efficiency, the use of new and
renewable energy technologies and energy demand
management

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 FP7 - ENERGY

Knowledge for energy policy-making

Development of tools, methods and models

to assess the main economic and social issues
related to energy technologies and
to provide quantifiable targets and scenarios
for medium and long term horizons

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 FP7 - ENERGY
Knowledge for energy policy-making

World gas production and consumption in 2030

1600

1400

1200

1000
Mtoe

800

600

400

200

0
EU + Acc. Other CIS North Japan, Africa, Latin Asia
CountriesWestern America Pacific Middle America
Europe East

Production Consumption
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 FP7
TENTATIVE TIMETABLE

 Summer 2006: Adoption of the FP7

 September – October 2006: drafting of the WP

 November – December 2006 : First FP7 Calls

 March – April 2007: Deadline

 May – June 2007: Evaluation

 September – December 2007: Negotiations

 December 2007 – March 2008: Start of projects

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 INFORMATION

 EU research: http://europa.eu.int/comm/research
 EU energy research:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/energy/index_en.htm
 Proposal for the FP7: http://europa.eu.int/eur-
lex/lex/LexUriServ/site/en/com/2005/com2005_0119en01.
pdf
 Proposal for Specific programmes:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/future/documents_en.
cfm
 Information requests: research@cec.eu.int

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 SOURCES

 European Union:
 Official Journal of the EC
 European Commission (DG RTD, TREN,
ENV, Eurostat, Cordis)
 European Environment Agency
 Euratom Supply Agency
 EU projects and studies
 International Energy Agency
 ASPOG, BP, ENI, IFP

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