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Environmental and Social Sustainability in Transport

The research examined transport policy interventions that can simultaneously advance environmental and social sustainability objectives. It analysed the causes and spatial patterns of transport deprivation in Hungary and reviewed good practices and ...

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FLEX4CEE - Flexibility integration in Central and Eastern Europe

The FLEX4CEE project aims to facilitate the participation of household and small business electricity consumers in the demand-side flexibility market in the Visegrad Four (V4) countries and to help create the necessary legal, regulatory and market ...

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Energy Efficiency Potential Assessment of Metal-Processing SMEs in Hungary

The aim of the research was to identify energy-saving and decarbonisation opportunities for Hungarian metal-processing SMEs and to assess how these measures could influence the sector’s competitiveness and energy use. Building on energy audits conducted ...

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High prices in the region – can flow-based market coupling be blamed?

The project analysed the causes of the unusually large electricity price divergence between Central and South-Eastern Europe since 2024, with a particular focus on the impact of flow-based market coupling. It systematically processed JAO flow-based data ...

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The impact of planned gas-based capacity expansion in the power sector of the CEE and SEE countries

This study analysed the impacts of the planned gas capacity expansion in the CEE region by applying a European power market model (EPMM). It focuses on four research questions: Are the planned 12-30 GW of new gas capacity needed in the sector from a ...

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Knowledge-sharing in the field of long duration energy storage

With the acceleration of energy transition, the role of long duration energy storage (LDES) is growing. Technologies such as liquid or compressed air storage, flow batteries or gravity energy storage can store excess energy produced by variable ...

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Heat pumps: An appropriate solution for decarbonising existing apartment buildings?

The aim of the research was to explore the potential of heat pumps - a technology that is seen by many as playing a key role in decarbonising buildings - in existing apartment buildings, and the technical, legal, administrative, etc. responses needed to ...

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Comparision of CFD related best practices within Europe

The analysis is part of a larger project with the ultimate goal of making recommendations for the development of Austrian renewable auctions. In the research, REKK examines the characteristics of eight European CfD-based renewable auction systems ...

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Mitigating the Adverse Effects of Droughts and Water Scarcity in the times of a changing climateA Water Resource and Evapotranspiration Management Perspective

The aim of the work was to develop a water resource management guide to help develop responses to climate change induced droughts, reflecting regional and spatial differences of basic water resource endowments.

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Energy efficiency potential in the Hungarian food industry SMEs

The project investigated how food SMEs can reduce their energy consumption and replace part of the energy used with renewable energy. Based on a preliminary analysis of the food industry, the two most important sub-sectors in terms of energy use by SMEs ...

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Modelling and energy policy analsyis of the Romanian electricity market

The aim of the project was to model the Romanian electricity market until 2040. The analysis examined how realistic the goal of decarbonization is for Romania by 2040 in the electricity market, and how realistic the objectives related to the electricity ...

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Modelling and energy policy analysis of the Romanian electricity market

During the project, we used the EPMM model to examine various scenarios for the Romanian electricity market. The main question of the analysis was whether the decarbonization of Romania's electricity market is achievable by 2040. To address this, we ...

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Analysis of the changing regulatory landscape of household self-consumption

Self-consumption of solar energy will play an important role in achieving the European Union’s net-zero target by involving consumers, increasing renewable deployment, providing additional sites for installations, mobilising new financial resources, and ...

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Assessment of geothermal district heating and urban heating potential and regulatory barriers in small and medium sized municipalities

The overall objective of the project is to implement an innovative pilot project in the Mórahalom Municipality, which will serve as a consumer-friendly, security of supply, environmentally and financially sustainable supply model for the development of ...

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RES auction recommendations for the countries of the Energy Community

The project provided recommendations on the implementation and/or improvement of auction design for Energy Community contracting parties, in light of the recent high prices and European best practices. The project incorporated 3 workshops about EU ...

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