Facts and figures

The International Energy Agency has estimated that global primary energy demand will increase by 40 – 50% from 2003 to 2030 (IEA).

The EnerGEO project consists of 12 partners from 6 countries and  has a duration of 4 years. The project started 1November 2009

Objectives

The main objective of the EnerGEO project is to develop a global observation strategy for monitoring and prediction the impact of the exploitation of energy resources on the environment and to demonstrate this strategy for a variety of energy resources.

In order to achieve these goals the EnerGEO-project has been structured according to the following topics:

• Linking Energy Use and Environmental Impact by making use of state of the art environmental, energy and scenario models.
• Collecting the necessary datasets and deriving indicators from them by connecting to current GEO-contributions and state-of-the-art in-situ global networks
• Testing the EnerGEO -concept through dedicated pilots making our approach viable and supportive
• Enabling the collection of and access to EnerGEO -data by building a portal within the context of GEO and based on GEO-ADC-recommendations
• From Pilot-scale to Global Scale enabling to run global scenarios on energy use and environmental impact