Activities
Overview
SETIS provides support to EU policy-making and decision-making by developing science-based responses to policy challenges with a socioeconomic and a scientific/technological dimension. SETIS has four primary activities: Technology Mapping, Capacities Mapping, Technology Roadmaps and monitoring and review of the SET-Plan implementation.
Industrial Initiatives
In 2008, the Commission proposed to launch six European Industrial Initiatives (EIIs): Wind, Solar (both concentrated solar and photovoltaic), Carbon capture and storage, Electricity grids, Bio-energy and Nuclear fission. The launch of the first four EIIs took place at the Madrid SET-Plan conference in June 2010.
EII Implementation Plans
The SET-Plan High Level Steering Group asked all European Industrial Initiatives (EIIs) to develop an Implementation Plan. The implementation plans cover the first 3-year period and are revised every year, thus becoming rolling programmes.
EII Key Performance Indicators
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) represent an essential toolkit for monitoring and reviewing the overall progress of an EII, and of the individual research, development and demonstration (RDD) activities performed in frame of its implementation. KPIs are instrumental for planning RDD activities, funded under the current and the upcoming R&D framework programmes and other possible funding schemes (such as NER 300), aiming to support the EII. More specifically, projects supporting the implementation of an EII, will need to demonstrate the link between their objectives and the KPIs of the EII they will be contributing to. As such, these projects will be integrated into the Monitoring and Review Framework of the SET-Plan.
Transition planning
The SET-Plan proposed three main implementation instruments as a basis for an Energy Technology Policy for Europe. Alongside the European Industrial Initiatives (EIIs) and the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA), the 3rd implementation pillar relates to activities addressing future European energy infrastructure networks and systems transition planning.
Key figures
In support of the 2nd Strategic European Energy review (2008), SETIS calculated the production cost of electricity from a wide range of power generation technologies in 2020, based on a thorough assessment of their techno-economic characteristics and available forecasts for the price of fossil fuels and carbon dioxide.
Project mapping
The SET Plan mapping exercise builds upon the decision of the Steering Group to collectively identify the possibilities for launching joint actions between Member States and/or Member States and the European Commission. It aims to identify gaps and topics for leveraging best ongoing efforts with complementary joint actions, as prioritized by the Implementation Plans of each European Industrial Initiatives. To facilitate the process, questionnaires have been distributed by SETIS to Member States stakeholders and the European Industrial Initiatives Teams. For each initiative, the responses received so far are listed below.
