Energy Technology Perspectives (ETP) is the International Energy Agency’s most ambitious publication on energy technology. It demonstrates how technologies can make a decisive difference in limiting climate change and enhancing energy security.
ETP aims to:
ETP is the IEA’s most long-term outlook. The main results are presented for 2050, and in the 2012 edition the analysis is, for the first time, extended to 2075.
ETP collaborates closely with the IEA’s technology network (Implementing Agreements), which gives substantial input to the analysis. There are also regular workshops with industry and academic partners, on specific topics.
ETP has been published every two years since 2006.
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Energy Technology Perspectives 2012 (ETP2012) is the International Energy Agency’s most ambitious publication on new developments in energy technology. It demonstrates how technologies – from electric vehicles to smart grids – can make a decisive difference in achieving the objective of limiting the global temperature rise to 2°C and enhancing energy security.
ETP2012 presents scenarios and strategies to 2050, with the aim of guiding decision makers on energy trends and what needs to be done to build a clean, secure and competitive energy future.
Executive Summary / Table of Contents / Press release / Listen to the webcast of ETP-2012 launch press conference (registration required)
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Tapping technology’s potential to secure a clean energy future
Presentation to Press by Ms. Maria van der Hoeven, Executive Director and Mr. Bo Diczfalusy, Director, June 11, 2012.
- Current progress on clean energy deployment, and what can be done to accelerate it?
- How energy security and low carbon energy are linked?
- How energy systems will become more complex in the future? Why systems integration is beneficial and how it can be achieved?
- How demand for heating and cooling will evolve dramatically and which solutions will satisfy it?
- Why flexible electricity systems are increasingly important, and how a system with smarter grids, energy storage and flexible generation can work?
- Why hydrogen could play a big role in the energy system of the future?
- Why fossil fuels will not disappear but will see their roles change, and what it means for the energy system as a whole?
- What is needed to realise the potential of carbon capture and storage (CCS)?
- Whether available technologies can allow the world to have zero energy related emissions by 2075 – which seems a necessary condition for the world to meet the 2°C target?
Global scenarios to 2050 are the backbone of ETP, and the 2012 edition features detailed scenarios for nine world regions.