New Energy Externalities Developments for Sustainability (NEEDS)

The NEEDS consortium included 66 partners, representing 26 Countries (12 Member States from the EU15, 9 new EU Member States, 3 Mediterranean Countries, and 2 Countries from other parts of the World). The ultimate objective of the project was to evaluate the full costs and benefits (i.e., direct and external costs) of energy policies and of future energy systems, both for individual countries and for the enlarged EU as a whole. It entailed major advancements, specifically in the areas of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and external costing associated with energy production, transport, conversion and use, and it improved the integration of these research areas into policy formulation.

Final Report
Policy use of the NEEDS results

Research Stream 1a: LCA of new energy technologies
Technical Paper 4.1: Technical guideline on parameterisation of life cycle inventory data
Deliverable D7.2: Final report on technical data, costs and life cycle inventories of advanced fossil fuels

Research Stream 2b: Energy Technology Roadmap and Stakeholder Perspectives
Deliverable 3.2: Sustainability criteria and indicators for assessment of electricity supply options
Deliverable 5.2: Final report on quantification of economic indicators
Deliverable 6.1: Final report on quantification of environmental indicators
Deliverable 7.1: Final report on quantification of risk indicators
Deliverable 10.1: Final indicator database
Deliverable 10.2: Final report on sustainability assessment of advanced electricity supply options
Deliverable 12.3: Implementation, evaluation and reporting on the survey on criteria and indicators for assessment of future electricity supply options