Risø DTU - a new EU initiative on increased use of renewable energy

The EU has just launched a new project aiming to reach 20 per cent renewable energy in the EU countries in 2020 in a more profitable and efficient way. The project named "RES4LESS" is a two-year collaborative research and development project coordinated by the Dutch Energy Research Centre ECN and Risø DTU is a partner in the project, and leads a project group.

RES4LESS' purpose is to encourage national policy makers to create better framework conditions and incentives to increase utilization of renewable energy sources and thereby stimulate new approaches to promoting renewable energy sources through increased cooperation between the member states.

Risø DTU's task will be to conduct a series of calculations and evaluations of the incentives and barriers to a joint effort between two or more countries to increase the use of renewable energy.

- For example, we will look at how large compensation should be in proportion to national funding options and what it takes before gains in the electricity markets offset losses, says Henrik Klinge Jacobsen, Senior Researcher at the Systems Analysis Department at Risø DTU.

Read more about the initiative and Risø's participation here