On June 26th, Energy Evaluation Europe hosted its fourth Lunch and Learn session online. For this intense and interesting discussion Joel Franklin (Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland and EEE Planning Committee member) welcomed esteemed panelists Gesche Huebner (University College London, UK) and Carine Sebi (Grenoble Ecole de Management, France) to delve into the question: “How can evaluation insights respond to and inform public debates about the energy transition.
Key discussion points included:

🔍 Hard facts vs. nice narratives: How can we turn hard facts into compelling stories?

📊 Validity of scientific evidence for the public

⚖️ The impartiality of narratives: Should they be? Can they be?

Effective communication is crucial for balancing emotionally engaging narratives with scientifically robust facts, utilizing digital platforms and public forums to bridge the gap between evaluators, policymakers, and the public. Policymakers need clear, actionable results translated from academic research, ensuring broad stakeholder input for transparent and trustworthy policy-making.

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The Energy Evaluation Europe Q2 2021 Newsletter is now out! Download it here:

Best wishes,

The Energy Evaluation Team

Lessons learnt from the EEA catalogue of environment and climate policy evaluations in Europe

Webinar #19 of the Energy Evaluation Academy. Speakers: Magdalena Jóźwicka-Olsen, European Environment Agency; Fabian Landes and Aurelie Louguet, Ramboll

View the recordings of the webinar here.

The EEA catalogue of environment and climate policy evaluations is a database of about 600 evaluations. This webinar presented the objectives and contents of this catalogue, how it has been developed and what lessons can be learnt from this compilation.

FURTHER READINGS

The EEA catalogue and related report are available at:
http://poleval-catalogue.apps.eea.europa.eu/ 

The Energy Evaluation Academy is jointly organised by Energy Evaluation and Leonardo Energy.

The Energy Evaluation Europe Q1 2021 Newsletter is now out! Download it here:

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The Energy Evaluation Team

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EEAP Webinar: Energy Efficiency for Developing Countries: Pivoting the Focus from Savings to Increased Outputs

28th April at 11.30AM IST

Much of the analysis of energy efficiency investments has focused on energy savings.  But for developing countries, the value of energy efficiency arguably lies more in the additional goods and services that energy efficiency can generate to raise standards of living.  This webinar will discuss how to adapt economic analysis to capture this different perspective.

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Speakers:

Philippe Benoit, Global Infrastructure Advisory Services 2050; Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy

Joeri de Wit, Energy Economist, World Bank

FURTHER READINGS

Energy efficiency for more goods and services in developing countries | EEG (energyeconomicgrowth.org)

Energy Efficiency for Developing Countries: Pivoting from Fewer Inputs to More Outputs | Inter Press Service (ipsnews.net)

Tracking energy end-use trends and policy impacts during the Covid-19 crisis

Webinar #18 of the Energy Evaluation Academy. Speakers: Jeremy Sung, Florian Mante, Mathilde Daugy and Louis Chambeau, experts of the IEA (International Energy Agency).

View the recordings of the webinar here.

Download the slides here.

This presentation discussed how policy analysts have monitored energy efficiency trends and policy impacts during the Covid-19 crisis. On one hand, novel data sources have made analysing changes during the crisis much easier. On the other, the crisis poses longer-term challenges for analysing policy impacts, particularly due to large changes in time series data.

This was illustrated with results from the IEA’s Energy Efficiency 2020 report, as well as analyses done by IEA’s Energy Data Centre (EDC).

FURTHER READINGS

Recent publications of the European Court of Auditors related to EU energy efficiency policies:

IEA Energy Efficiency 2020 report

IEA Energy Efficiency Indicators 2020 report

Proceedings of the 4th workshop of the G20 Energy End-Use Data and Energy Efficiency Metrics initiative

The Energy Evaluation Academy is jointly organised by Energy Evaluation and Leonardo Energy.

Kathleen Gaffney

The whole Energy Evaluation community has been saddened by the loss of Kathleen who passed away in Paris on 21 January 2021.

Kathleen was a leader in the evaluation field
with a career which included roles at DNV GL
and Navigant in the US, Australia and the UK.

In 2018 Kathleen joined the International
Energy Agency as a Senior Programme
Manager where she was able to share her
experience more broadly and with young
people in particular.

Kathleen has been actively involved with
Energy Evaluation and our sister
organisation IEPEC contributing numerous
conference papers over the last 20 years.
She was co-chair of our conference in Vienna in 2018 and for the online conference that will be held in March 2021.

It was always a pleasure to work with Kathleen. Her great energy, expertise and enthusiasm will continue to be a source of inspiration for all of us. She will be greatly missed by everyone who knew her.

A fund has been established to create a lasting memorial to Kathleen, for more information and an opportunity to contribute visit https://www.lepotcommun.fr/pot/b8mqbt9x.

The EEE 2021 Newsletter is now out! Download it here:

Watch it here! https://youtu.be/jpGOe3fUngU

Energy Evaluation Org are pleased to present an exclusive presentation on Integrated Evaluation for the Energy Transition featuring Kevin Cooney.

Kevin owns Buka Energy Strategies and is a key member of Energy Evaluation, sitting on our Board of Trustees.

Today Kevin takes us through the Energy Transition needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and why this Energy Transition needs integrated evaluation. He ends with how Energy Evaluation Org fits into the transition.

Timestamps:
00:24 : Introduction to Kevin Cooney
01:24 : What is different about the energy transition
04:06 : Key trends and opportunities driving the transition
07:19 : Why evaluate programs, policies and investments in an integrated manner?
09:20 : ‘If it quacks like a Duck…’ supply/demand imbalances
11:35 : A truly Smart Grid integrates DERs
13:54 : Three Tiers of DER Analysis
17:52 : Net Present Value often varies across Investment Categories
20:20 : People and Process Impacts
22:41 : How energy Evaluation as an Organization fits into the Energy Transition

Thanks Kevin for a great presentation!

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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? The EU’s energy efficiency policies scrutinised by the European Court of Auditors

Webinar #17 of the Energy Evaluation Academy. Speaker: Peter Welch, Director “Sustainable use of natural resources” at the European Court of Auditors .

View the recordings of the webinar here.

Download the slides here.

The European Court of Auditors (ECA) promotes accountability and transparency, and acts as the independent guardian of the financial interests of the EU citizens. ECA recently published two reports about EU energy efficiency policies (about appliances and buildings) (see links below).

This webinar presented ECA’s role in the EU policy process, how it relates to evaluation, and the main conclusions from the two recent reports.

The webinar ended with a discussion between Peter Welch, Charles Michaelis (chair of Energy Evaluation) and Sarah Rieseberg (project manager at the Secretariat of the International Climate Initiative (IKI) ) about differences and possible interactions between the work of Courts of Auditors and the work of evaluators.

FURTHER READINGS

Recent publications of the European Court of Auditors related to EU energy efficiency policies:

– “EU action on Ecodesign and Energy Labelling: important contribution to greater energy efficiency reduced by significant delays and non-compliance” (published in January 2020) : https://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/SR20_01/SR_Ecodesign_and_energy_labels_EN.pdf

– “Energy efficiency in buildings: greater focus on cost-effectiveness still needed” (published in April 2020): https://www.eca.europa.eu/Lists/ECADocuments/SR20_11/SR_Energy_efficiency_in_buildings_EN.pdf

The Energy Evaluation Academy is jointly organised by Energy Evaluation and Leonardo Energy.