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International audience ; This article proposes a new method to assess the health impact of populations exposed to fine particles (PM2.5) during their whole lifetime, which is suitable for comparative analysis of energy scenarios. The method takes into account the variation of particle concentrations over time as well as the evolution of population cohorts. Its capabilities are demonstrated for two pathways of European energy system development up to 2050: the Baseline (BL) and the Low Carbon, Maximum Renewable Power (LC-MRP). These pathways were combined with three sets of assumptions about emission control measures: Current Legislation (CLE), Fixed Emission Factors (FEFs), and the Maximum Technically Feasible Reductions (MTFRs). Analysis was carried out for 45 European countries. Average PM2.5 concentration over Europe in the LC-MRP/CLE scenario is reduced by 58% compared with the BL/FEF case. Health impacts (expressed in days of loss of life expectancy) decrease by 21%. For the LC-MRP/MTFR scenario the average PM2.5 concentration is reduced by 85% and the health impact by 34%. The methodology was developed within the framework of the EU's FP7 EnerGEO project and was implemented in the Platform of Integrated Assessment (PIA). The Platform enables performing health impact assessments for various energy scenarios.

International audience ; This article proposes a new method to assess the health impact of populations exposed to fine particles (PM2.5) during their whole lifetime, which is suitable for comparative analysis of energy scenarios. The method takes into account the variation of particle concentrations over time as well as the evolution of population cohorts. Its capabilities are demonstrated for two pathways of European energy system development up to 2050: the Baseline (BL) and the Low Carbon, Maximum Renewable Power (LC-MRP). These pathways were combined with three sets of assumptions about emission control measures: Current Legislation (CLE), Fixed Emission Factors (FEFs), and the Maximum Technically Feasible Reductions (MTFRs). Analysis was carried out for 45 European countries. Average PM2.5 concentration over Europe in the LC-MRP/CLE scenario is reduced by 58% compared with the BL/FEF case. Health impacts (expressed in days of loss of life expectancy) decrease by 21%. For the LC-MRP/MTFR scenario the average PM2.5 concentration is reduced by 85% and the health impact by 34%. The methodology was developed within the framework of the EU's FP7 EnerGEO project and was implemented in the Platform of Integrated Assessment (PIA). The Platform enables performing health impact assessments for various energy scenarios.

CD-ROM ; International audience ; In past years there has been substantial funding from the European Commission to develop information systems on solar radiation data, such as the European Solar Radiation Atlas, the projects SoDa, Satel-Light, PVGIS, PVSAT, PVSAT-2 or Heliosat-3 and the Envisolar project of the European Space Agency (ESA). Additionally national services were set up as Meteonorm by Meteotest in Switzerland and SOLEMI by DLR in Germany. From the regional point of view, the projects focused mainly on Europe or its regions, leading to the situation that several different data bases exist in parallel developed by different approaches, including those exploiting satellite data. Large steps forward have been made for the benefit of research, renewable energy industry, policy making and the environment. Nevertheless, these multiple efforts have led to a fragmentation and uncoordinated access: different sources of information and solar radiation products are now available, but uncertainty about their quality remains. Although a number of institutions have developed approaches for solar energy resource assessments, the individual methods have not been cross-compared and benchmarked. Validation covered mainly the developed methods. At the same time, communities of users lack common understanding how to exploit the developed knowledge. The project MESoR is a European funded Coordination Action which aims at removing the uncertainty and improving the management of the solar energy resource knowledge. The project includes activities in user guidance (benchmarking of models and data sets; development of a handbook on best practices on how to use solar resource data), unification of access to information (by adopting a Service Oriented Approach (SOA) through the extensive use of Web Services offering a one stop-acces to remotely located databases) use of advanced information technologies; offering one-stop-access to several databases), connecting to other initiatives (INSPIRE of the EU, POWER of the NASA, SHC ...

CD-ROM ; International audience ; In past years there has been substantial funding from the European Commission to develop information systems on solar radiation data, such as the European Solar Radiation Atlas, the projects SoDa, Satel-Light, PVGIS, PVSAT, PVSAT-2 or Heliosat-3 and the Envisolar project of the European Space Agency (ESA). Additionally national services were set up as Meteonorm by Meteotest in Switzerland and SOLEMI by DLR in Germany. From the regional point of view, the projects focused mainly on Europe or its regions, leading to the situation that several different data bases exist in parallel developed by different approaches, including those exploiting satellite data. Large steps forward have been made for the benefit of research, renewable energy industry, policy making and the environment. Nevertheless, these multiple efforts have led to a fragmentation and uncoordinated access: different sources of information and solar radiation products are now available, but uncertainty about their quality remains. Although a number of institutions have developed approaches for solar energy resource assessments, the individual methods have not been cross-compared and benchmarked. Validation covered mainly the developed methods. At the same time, communities of users lack common understanding how to exploit the developed knowledge. The project MESoR is a European funded Coordination Action which aims at removing the uncertainty and improving the management of the solar energy resource knowledge. The project includes activities in user guidance (benchmarking of models and data sets; development of a handbook on best practices on how to use solar resource data), unification of access to information (by adopting a Service Oriented Approach (SOA) through the extensive use of Web Services offering a one stop-acces to remotely located databases) use of advanced information technologies; offering one-stop-access to several databases), connecting to other initiatives (INSPIRE of the EU, POWER of the NASA, SHC ...

CD-ROM ; International audience ; In past years there has been substantial funding from the European Commission to develop information systems on solar radiation data, such as the European Solar Radiation Atlas, the projects SoDa, Satel-Light, PVGIS, PVSAT, PVSAT-2 or Heliosat-3 and the Envisolar project of the European Space Agency (ESA). Additionally national services were set up as Meteonorm by Meteotest in Switzerland and SOLEMI by DLR in Germany. From the regional point of view, the projects focused mainly on Europe or its regions, leading to the situation that several different data bases exist in parallel developed by different approaches, including those exploiting satellite data. Large steps forward have been made for the benefit of research, renewable energy industry, policy making and the environment. Nevertheless, these multiple efforts have led to a fragmentation and uncoordinated access: different sources of information and solar radiation products are now available, but uncertainty about their quality remains. Although a number of institutions have developed approaches for solar energy resource assessments, the individual methods have not been cross-compared and benchmarked. Validation covered mainly the developed methods. At the same time, communities of users lack common understanding how to exploit the developed knowledge. The project MESoR is a European funded Coordination Action which aims at removing the uncertainty and improving the management of the solar energy resource knowledge. The project includes activities in user guidance (benchmarking of models and data sets; development of a handbook on best practices on how to use solar resource data), unification of access to information (by adopting a Service Oriented Approach (SOA) through the extensive use of Web Services offering a one stop-acces to remotely located databases) use of advanced information technologies; offering one-stop-access to several databases), connecting to other initiatives (INSPIRE of the EU, POWER of the NASA, SHC ...