ENTRANZE Online Scenario Tool

The IEE funded project, ENTRANZE, just released its Online Scenario Tool. This tool performs calculated assumptions about the future deployment of nZEB and RES-H/C in the EU building stock while also assessing the corresponding costs, expenditures and benefits.

The overall objective of the scenario development was to analyse the effects of different policies on realities on the ground. The impacts of different policy instruments on the diffusion process and the building related energy demand is taken into account as well as economic, technical, non-technical and institutional barriers and rebound-effects. The scenarios were developed until the year 2030 with a particular focus on the year 2020, according to the targets set by the EPBD and RED.

The national policy scenarios were defined according to the specific needs, ideas and suggestions of the policy makers and stakeholders included in the national discussion processes that took place at every key stage of the project in the target countries.

The scenario calculation was done by a coupling of the well-established models POLES and INVERT/EE-Lab. Thus, POLES delivered the projection of key input data concerning the overall energy system like end-user energy prices and of the power mix, so as to derive the average primary energy and emission factors of power generation in each country (respectively, toe/kWh and CO2/kWh). Invert/EE-Lab was used to derive scenarios for the heating, hot water cooling and lighting energy demand scenarios.

The tool can be accessed at http://www.entranze.eu/tools/scenario-results 

About ENTRANZE

The objective of the ENTRANZE project is to actively support policy making by providing the required data, analysis and guidelines to achieve a fast and strong penetration of nZEB and RES-H/C within the existing national building stocks. The project intends to connect building experts from European research and academia to national decision makers and key stakeholders with a view to build ambitious, but reality proof, policies and roadmaps.