Strategic Agenda of EMN Clean Energy

Supporting Europe's energy transition

Tackling the multi-disciplinary challenges related to clean energy and the energy transition in Europe

Clean Energy is essential to enable Europe’s Green Deal to deliver zero net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050 and establish a secure and reliable energy supply for Europe. Our focus is on topics addressing the generation, storage, conversion and utilization of renewable energy.  

Due to the broadness of the field, initial targets will be on areas where metrology is a major factor in the take up of clean energy technologies, related to the generation and utilization from solar and wind energy, energy storage and efficiency of use. Within these, the needs of stakeholders will be our primary concern to shape and adapt our focus in research related matters, to provide support for future developments in this field.   

To achieve the goals of the energy transition set by the EU a successful implementation of an adequate measurement infrastructure is key, and this metrology network will operate as an interface between the metrology community policymakers and stakeholder organisations in the field of clean energy.

We will promote collaboration together with EMN Energy Gases and EMN Smart Electricity Grids acting as a single voice for external consultation on clean energy topics and influencing the future funding landscape for metrological research by alignment of strategies, external programmes and roadmaps.

EURAMET´s European Metrology Network for Clean Energy supports the energy transition.

Vision & Mission

Our Vision

The EMN Clean Energy promotes the establishment of a joint and sustainable European metrology infrastructure for Clean Energy, to foster cooperation across technical disciplines involved in clean energy, contributing decisively to the European Green Deal goals and thus showing the added value of a European approach in tackling this grand challenge.

Our Mission

The EMN Clean Energy provides a single focal point for metrology across the clean energy landscape, with initial focus on the generation and use of wind and solar energy and temporary storage by batteries, to establish a long-term ongoing dialogue between the metrology community and clean energy stakeholders, to support their metrology needs and shape related research activities, aiming at an effective take-up of research outputs from the metrology community.

What we plan to achieve

We bring clear direction in our strategy by defining six lines of activities of intervention where we want to succeed. These represent for us the biggest opportunities for engagement and differentiation:

  • Acting as a backbone EMN to provide support and guidance on clean energy metrology matters to external organisations so that a broader and earlier uptake of the research projects outputs is effectively implemented.
  • Providing support to industrial stakeholders and manufacturers with novel measurement methods to improve efficiency, reduce cost and use of resources and achieve faster implementation of new technologies to accelerate the global energy transition.
  • Underpinning efficiency improvement as a key issue to achieve the Green Deal goals, including process optimisation efficiency in conversion and optimized components, through metrology solutions adapted to their needs, e.g., aging and degradation effects of energy materials to improve the durability of clean energy technologies, and where AI tools can also play a crucial role.
  • Fostering Digitalization, Standardization and Regulation contributing for a greater impact and a successful output of our activities, and thus for the sustainability of the network.
  • Representing clean energy metrology interests in Europe by reaching out to other partnerships, e.g., Clean Energy Transition Partnership, and research networks, involving metrology in complex and diverse fields of expertise to enable sustainable funding for our members and partners.
  • Proposing smart specialisation approaches of metrological capabilities and facilities in balance with the interests of EMN members and partners, through knowledge transfer, training, and collaborative research for enhanced capabilities, will be proposed.

Implementation

We will implement our strategy through coordination of national and European actions that will enable our internal and external stakeholders to succeed through an improved metrology infrastructure envisaged to contribute to a faster and robust energy transition.

Joint Research for Clean Energy: We will interact with internal and external stakeholders to promote successful consortia to underpin important metrology advances in several domains, namely, more accurate energy rating under realist conditions, understanding of materials performance and durability, a more trustful international comparability allowing investments with lower risks, and a deeper understanding of energy storage processes with lower environmental footprint, higher energy density and lifetimes, and lower costs. Life-cycle analysis and energy efficiency analysis will also be improved, with better data quality and novel AI statistical tools. The digital transition and standardization needs will also be considered. Our research on Clean Energy has been supported by the European Metrology Research Programmes (EMRP and EMPIR) and now it continues within the European Partnership on Metrology.

Coordination of relevant activities within National Metrology Institutes: Our network operates on leveraging resources of European NMIs and DIs, developing and maintaining quality assured national frameworks for metrology infrastructure, data quality, and guidelines together with fit-for-purpose training services. The EMN Clean Energy will coordinate and promote the development of new advances in metrology relevant to this field, as well as relevant knowledge transfer to the European metrology community and external stakeholders.