Technology Assessment Group
The Technology Assessment group is part of the multi-disciplinary Laboratory for Energy systems Analysis (LEA) at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and is the continuation of the former GaBE Project. Technology Assessment incorporates a comprehensive range of research areas to achieve three main objectives:
- To improve understanding and thereby enable comparisons of current energy technologies and future energy options for the electricity, heating and transport sectors based on environmental, economic and socially relevant factors.
- To provide quantitative, systematic, and interdisciplinary assessments of energy technologies and energy supply strategies through the development and application of consistent methodological frameworks and databases.
- To support rational decision-making for sustainable development in the Swiss and international energy sectors, and to communicate balanced research findings to decision-makers and stakeholders.
Figure 1: Analytical framework for comprehensive technology assessment.
Latest News
Challenge at the Energy Data Hackdays 2021
Chris Mutel, a scientist at PSI's Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis who specialises in life cycle and sustainability analyses, prepared a challenge for the Energy Data Hackdays happening on the 24th and 25th of September 2021 in Brugg
Where will the electricity come from in 2050?
Net-zero goal for CO2 emissions is technically achievable.
Effectively removing CO2 from the atmosphere
With careful planning, effective CO2 capture is technically possible.
Latest Publications
- Peter Burgherr, Christian Bauer, Gianfranco Guidati, Domenico Giardini (eds.), Serge Biollaz, Martin Densing, Annelen Kahl, Aleksandra Kim, Michael Lehning, Warren Schenler, Karin Treyer, Xiaojin Zhang (2021). Sources of Primary Electricity Supply, Synthesis Report, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Domenico Giardini, Gianfranco Guidati (eds.), Florian Amann, Thomas Driesner, Valentin Gischig, Luca Guglielmetti, Marian Hertrich, Klaus Holliger, Rolf Krause, Lyesse Laloui, Olivier Lateltin, Brice Lecampion, Simon Löw, Hansruedi Maurer, Marco Mazzotti, Peter Meier, Andrea Moscariello, A., Martin O. Saar, Matteo Spada, Benoit Valley, Alba Zappone (2021): Swiss Potential for Geothermal Energy and CO2 Storage, Synthesis Report, ETH Zurich, Switzerland