Prospective Outlook for the Long term Energy System

POLES is designed to contribute primarily to the following policy areas:  Climate Action, Energy. It could also be used in the following policy areas: Agricultural, Environment, Trade, Transport.

POLES can be used to support policy anticipation and formulation by developing consistent global energy scenarios that feed in to policy developments in the field of energy and climate change. The model has been and is still very much used to assess the impact of European and international energy and climate policies on energy markets and GHG emissions, by DG CLIMA in the context of international climate policy negotiations and by DG ENER in the context of the EU Energy Union.

POLES has also been applied for the analyses of various Impact Assessments in the field of climate change and energy, among them: the Proposal for a revised energy efficiency Directive (COM(2016)0761 final)  and The Paris Protocol – A blueprint for tackling global climate change beyond 2020 (COM(2015) 81 final/2).

The model is being extended towards co-benefits of energy and climate policy in terms of land use and water use.