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The European Pathway project

A project for Pathways to Sustainable European Energy Systems

This international project has the overall aim of evaluating and proposing robust pathways, or bridging systems, towards a sustainable energy system in Europe. The focus is on the stationary energy system. The Pathways project is an important part of an international cooperation, the Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS), where companies such as Ford, Du Pont and Vattenfall are involved together with MIT, ETH, Tokyo University and Chalmers. Together we work on a long-term basis, and in international projects, to be able to draw a map showing the pathways to a sustainable future.

A five-year project

European pathways project is a five year project with the overall aim to evaluate and propose robust pathways towards a sustainable energy system with respect to environmental, technical, economic and social issues. The focus is on the stationary energy system (power and heat) in the European setting. Evaluations will be based on a detailed description of the present energy system and will focus on how the present system can be developed into the future under a range of environmental, economic and infrastructural constraints

Independent results to support decision makers

The Pathways project is a response to the need for a large and long-term research project on European energy pathways, which can produce independent results to support decision makers in industry and in governmental organizations. Stakeholders for this project are: the European utility industry and other energy related industries, the European Commission, EU-Member State governments and their energy related boards and oil and gas companies.