Policy-Oriented Tool for Energy and Climate Change Impact Assessment

POTEnCIA is designed to assess the impacts of alternative energy and climate policies on the energy sector, under different hypotheses about surrounding conditions within the energy markets. It can be used to analyse the effects of:

• existing and proposed legislation (EU wide and/or Member State specific) related to energy production and use;
• policies accelerating or delaying technology progress and deployment, as well as introducing standards and/or labelling;
• greenhouse gases reduction  policies;
• policies aiming at the increased use of renewable energy sources;
• policies focusing on increased efficiency of energy use;
• policies promoting the use of alternative fuels;
• different pricing regimes and taxation policies;
• price peaks caused by scarcity of certain energy carriers;
• different regimes for the electricity market related to decentralisation and liberalisation;
• alternative behaviours of representative agents (both energy suppliers and consumers) affecting both their investment decisions and use of equipment;
• policies related to the development of energy networks (including the impact of modifications in the cross-country interconnection capacities).