To ensure that the development of trans-European energy networks supports the required transition towards climate neutrality and climate resilience in the European Union by 2050, the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change provided recommendations on methodologies for a harmonised energy system-wide cost-benefit analysis at EU level.
Energy supply and use represent 77 % of the EU’s total greenhouse gas emissions. It is therefore critical that the EU’s energy network development supports the transition towards renewable-based and efficient energy systems while avoiding further lock-ins into fossil infrastructure. It should also safeguard the resilience of the EU’s energy infrastructure to the unavoidable impacts of climate change.
Regulation (EU) 2022/869 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2022 on Trans-European Networks for Energy (TEN-E) invites the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change to provide an advice on methodologies for a harmonised energy system-wide cost-benefit analysis at EU level. This second set of recommendations follows on from initial Advisory Board recommendations on scenario guidelines published in November 2022.