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Energy for Development (EfD) is the focal point for Risø National Laboratory’s activities related to energy in developing countries. EfD was  established on 1 January 2004,  and implemented jointly by the departments of Systems Analysis (SYS), Wind Energy (VEA) and Biosystems (BIO). These departments already have well-established research programmes and competences, including various aspects of energy, at the national and international level. EfD brings these competences together with a focus on energy issues in developing countries. The Systems Analysis Department is the host of the UNEP Risø Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development. 

EfD develops and applies methods and technologies which promote energy for sustainable development in developing countries. EfD operates through a networking approach, utilising and enhancing the existing competences and contacts of the individual Risø research programmes and personnel. 

Present and planned activities include:

  • Participation in the EU/COOPENER programme through two projects on energy and development in Africa: DEA and APPLES
  • Organisation, running and follow-up of EUEI Facilitation Workshops and Policy Dialogues in West and Southern/Eastern Africa
  • Contributing to the development and application of design and simulation tools, and guidelines for project preparation and implementation, for wind and other renewable energy technologies (RETs) in centralized and decentralized energy systems.
  • Development of guidelines for CDM projects involving wind energy, international dissemination, and collaboration with relevant national institutions and investors on identification and preparation of potential CDM-wind projects.
  • Application of Risø’s integrated competence in energy and development, particularly with regard to renewable energy systems, project financing, institutional development and assessment of economic, social and environmental effects of energy interventions.

Presentations from a  seminar with the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Danida) and the Industrialisation Fund for Developing Countries (IFU)

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Systems Analysis Department
Risø National Laboratory, Bldg. 142
Frederiksborgvej 399
P.O. Box 49
DK 4000 Roskilde
Denmark

tel: +45 46 77 51 71
fax:+ 45 46 32 19 99

From 1 January 2007, Risø National Laboratory, the Danish Institute for Food and Veterinary Research, the Danish Institute for Fisheries Research, the Danish National Space Center and the Danish Transport Research Institute have been merged with the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) with DTU as the continuing unit.

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