Sustainable energy

Activities in favour of sustainable consumption are carried out throughout most of ADEME (the French Environment and Energy Management Agency) central services and regional offices. However despite the cross-cutting nature and increasing importance of the thematic the agency has not defined a global strategy for sustainable consumption. The main purpose of this evaluation was therefore…

The programme Knowledge Centre Waste Refinery (WR) conducts research and development (R&D) in collaboration between companies, R&D providers, government and regional agencies and municipalities. The objective of WR’s operations is to achieve optimal resource and energy utilisation from waste in terms of both economic and environmental impacts on society. The focus of the evaluation was…

The European Commission (DG Energy) asked Technopolis Group to perform the mid-term evaluation of the Covenant of Mayors (CoM). The CoM is a voluntary initiative bringing together thousands of municipalities across the European Union and beyond, pledging their commitment to reduce green house gas emissions with a minimum goal of 20% reduction by 2020. It…

Technopolis Group evaluated the development and performance of a follow up survey for the Swedish Energy Agency, which goes to all recipients whom are allocated funding. A report was produced, which contains a reflection on, and suggestions for the development of the survey used by the Energy Agency to monitor their funding. It also addresses the…

Technopolis Group’s meta evaluation reviewed all programme evaluations performed by the Swedish Energy Agency since 2000. It identified key learnings which were used to inform the design of a future system for project quality assessment, monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment (ex post). The overall conclusion reached through the meta evaluation is that the evaluations commissioned…

The report gives an extended analysis based on the environmental goods trade statistics for the World and sub regions including Europe (especially South East Europe, EU and EUR new member states, Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia, and South Eastern Europe) Latin America and South East Asia regions in order to identify the cross-country trends…

The Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI) was founded in January 2002, with a view to advancing the performance and application of genomics research in the Netherlands. NGI aims to promote both the performance of genomics research in the Netherlands and its application by developing an excellent research infrastructure consisting of leading Dutch research groups in the…

The national wind energy research programme Vindforsk is funded by the Swedish Energy Agency, the Swedish national grid (Svenska Kraftnät) and companies in the sector. It is administrated by Elforsk. The evaluation of Vindforsk III, the third period of the programme (2009-2012), covered scientific aspects as well as industrial relevance, results, objectives attainment and programme…