TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kleanthis, Nikos
A1  - Stavrakas, Vassilis
A1  - Ceglarz, Andrzej
A1  - Süsser, Diana
A1  - Schibline, Amanda
A1  - Lilliestam, Johan
A1  - Flamos, Alexandros
T1  - Eliciting knowledge from stakeholders to identify critical issues of the transition to climate neutrality in Greece, the Nordic Region, and the European Union
JF  - Energy research & social ccience
N2  - There are considerable differences in the pace and underlying motivations of the energy transition in the different geographical contexts across Europe. The European Union's commitment to climate neutrality by 2050 requires a better understanding of the energy transition in different contexts and scales to improve cooperation of involved actors. In this article, we identify critical issues and challenges of the European energy transition as perceived by stakeholders and investigate how these perceptions vary across geographical contexts. To do so, we couple a policy document analysis with research based on stakeholder engagement activities in three different scales, national (Greece), regional (Nordic Region) and continental scale (European Union). Our findings show that stakeholder perspectives on the energy transition depend on contextual factors underlying the need for policies sensitive to the different transition issues and challenges in European regions. They also reveal cross-cutting issues and challenges among the three case studies, which could lead to further improvement of the cross-country collaboration to foster the European energy transition.
KW  - challenges
KW  - case studies
KW  - energy policy
KW  - energy transition
KW  - climate neutrality
KW  - stakeholder engagement
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102836
SN  - 2214-6296
VL  - 93
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Chatterjee, Souran
A1  - Stavrakas, Vassilis
A1  - Oreggioni, Gabriel
A1  - Süsser, Diana
A1  - Staffell, Iain
A1  - Lilliestam, Johan
A1  - Molnar, Gergely
A1  - Flamos, Alexandros
A1  - Ürge-Vorsatz, Diana
T1  - Existing tools, user needs and required model adjustments for energy demand modelling of a carbon-neutral Europe
JF  - Energy research & social science
N2  - To achieve the European Union's target for climate neutrality by 2050 reduced energy demand will make the transition process faster and cheaper. The role of policies that support energy efficiency measures and demand-side management practices will be critical and to ensure that energy demand models are relevant to policymakers and other end-users, understanding how to further improve the models and whether they are tailored to user needs to support efficient decision-making processes is crucial. So far though, no scientific studies have examined the key user needs for energy demand modelling in the context of the climate neutrality targets. In this article we address this gap using a multi-method approach based on empirical and desk research. Through survey and stakeholder meetings and workshops we identify user needs of different stakeholder groups, and we highlight the direction in which energy demand models need to be improved to be relevant to their users. Through a detailed review of existing energy demand models, we provide a full understanding of the key characteristics and capabilities of existing tools, and we identify their limitations and gaps. Our findings show that classical demand-related questions remain important to model users, while most of the existing models can answer these questions. Furthermore, we show that some of the user needs related to sectoral demand modelling, dictated by the latest policy developments, are under-researched and are not addressed by existing tools.
KW  - energy demand
KW  - climate neutrality
KW  - demand-side management
KW  - model adjustments
KW  - energy demand modelling
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102662
SN  - 2214-6296
VL  - 90
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -