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Experience Curves: A Tool for Energy Policy Analysis and Design
 
Location and date(s) of workshop:
IEA, Paris: 22-24 January 2003
   
Organiser(s): IEA EXCETP / EU-EXTOOL
   
Contact(s):
   

 

 
Proceedings: A joint workshop of EU-EXTOOL and IEA EXCETP


The workshop is arranged jointly by the EU project "Experience curve: a tool for energy policy programmes assessment, EXTOOL", and the international network on Experience Curves for Energy Technology Policy, EXCETP.

List of Participants

Relevant Publications

Creating Markets for Energy Technologies and Experience Curves for Energy Technology Policy 2000 (2000)

More information can be found on
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/ECS/EXCETP
http://www.iset.uni-kassel.de/extool


Day 1
22 January 2003

SESSION 1: Experience curves in a policy environment
Chairman: Clas-Otto Wene, IEA

· Welcome: Experience curves at the IEA
Marianne Haug, Office for Energy Efficiency, Technology and R&D, IEA
· European research policy and the introduction of new energy technologies
Wiktor Raldow, New and renewable energy sources, EU
· Technology learning from the lawmaker's point of view
Stephanie Bauer, Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Germany
· Deployment policies using technology learning: National case studies from IEA countries
Leo Schrattenholzer, IIASA, Austria
· Renewable energy in the future
Robert Kleiburg, Strategy and Planning, Shell International Renewables Limited



SESSION 2: New insights from wind and PV
Presentation of the EXTOOL and the PHOTEX projects

Chairman: Alejandro Martin Hobdey, EU

· EXTOOL: The use of experience curves for assessing energy policy programmes
Lena Neij, Lund University, Sweden
· EXTOOL: Sources of cost reduction of wind energy
Per Dannemand Andersen, Risø National Laboratory, Denmark
· EXTOOL: Experience curves for wind and observed cost reductions
Michael Durstewitz, ISET, Germany
· PHOTEX: Experience curves for PV - preliminary findings from PHOTEX
Gerrit Jan Schaeffer, ECN, the Netherlands

DISCUSSION

Day 2
23 January 2003

SESSION 3: Paging emerging competitive technologies
Chairman: Hans Nilsson, Lund University, Sweden

· Learning curves for power plant environmental technologies: implications for CO2 capture and sequestration
E.S. Rubin, D.A. Hounshell, M.R. Taylor and S. Yeh, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
· Fuel cells: Bottom-up interpretation of the experience curve
Markus Blesl, IER, Stuttgart, Germany
· Bioenergy: cost reduction in the bioenergy system
Satu Helynen, VTT Processes, Finland
· Experience curves on building insulation and high efficiency windows - the period
1975-2000-2020

Martin Jacob and Dr. Reinhard Madlener, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland
· Learning Investments for Market Transformations
Clas-Otto Wene, IEA



SESSION 4: Policy Analysis - tools and results
Chairman: Giancarlo Tosato, Edfe/CSV, Max Planck Institur-IPP, Germany

· The virtuous circle also increases the carrying capacity
Chihiro Watanabe, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
· The use of experience curves to develop energy modelling
Leonardo Barretto, IIASA
· Modelling experience curves in MERGE
Socrates Kypreos, PSI, Switzerland
· Learning to capture progress on both the demand and the supply side: implications for electric utility investments
John A. "Skip" Laitner, EPA, USA, Alan H. Sanstad, LBL, USA
· Technology learning in the IEA ETP project
Dolf Gielen, Niclas Mattsson, Fridtjof Unander, Clas-Otto Wene, IEA
· Policy analyses with the MARKAL, ETL model for Western Europe - first results
Koen Smekens, ECN, the Netherlands

SESSION 5:

1999-2003: Re-visiting the Stuttgart observations and recommendations - chairs' panel
· EXCETP Tasks

Day 3
24 January 2003

9:00-12:30 Group discussion on case studies:
This session is a forum for researchers and policy analysts to establish contacts, e.g. to initiate international research projects on experience curves for energy technology. IEA can provide a limited amount of rooms for discussions.

The following groups are active:

· End-use technologies. Moderator: John "Skip" Laitner, EPA, USA
· Carbon-capture technologies. Moderators: Dolf Gielen and Fridtjof Unander, IEA
· Dissemination of Experience Curve Methodology and Results. Moderator: Robert Kleiburg, Shell International Renewables, the Netherlands

Location The workshop took place at the

International Energy Agency, IEA
9 rue de la Fédération
75739 Paris Cedex 15