Publications

Our publications highlight policy options for the energy transition and provide actionable, innovation-oriented recommendations for policymakers and industry.

Interested in our German-focused studies? Explore them here.

Policy Report: European Carbon Management Dialogue: Cross-Border Infrastructure and Development in the North Sea

EPICO KlimaInnovation has published a new Policy Paper on carbon management in the North Sea region and its role in achieving Europe’s climate goals.

Policy Report: The EU ETS 2 at the Crossroads: Evaluating Reform Options

EPICO and Frontier Economics propose a targeted reform strategy for a fair and effective introduction of the new Emissions Trading System (ETS 2).

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Policy Brief: Electrifying Energy Intensive Industries: Ramping Up Hydrogen Production and Steering it Toward Industrial Decarbonisation

The second brief of the series "Electrifying Energy Intensive Industries" deep dives into the role of hydrogen for the decarbonisation of hard to abate sectors.

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Policy Brief: Electrifying Energy Intensive Industries: Assessing the EU Financial Framework for Industrial Decarbonisation

The first brief of the series "Electrifying Energy Intensive Industries" explores how EU-level funding can accelerate the transition, focusing on how financial tools can support clean technology deployment, fuel switching, and energy efficiency.

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Policy Report: Strengthening the EU ETS 2 through Revenue Frontloading

EPICO and Frontier Economics show how the EU ETS 2 can be strengthened through Revenue Frontloading.

Policy Brief: Closing All Loops: Circularity Down to the Last Scrap

This Policy Brief outlines concrete financial and regulatory solutions to establish a European waste market that aligns circularity with competitiveness.

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Policy Report: Ironing out the Transformation of EU Steelmaking: Actionable Pathways for Climate Neutrality

This Policy Report provides actionable recommendations for decarbonising the EU steel industry.

Policy Brief: Connecting Borders Through Offshore Hydrogen: Infrastructure and Financing in the North Sea

This Policy Paper provides recommendations for enhancing regional cooperation in the North Sea and incentivising domestic offshore hydrogen production.

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Policy Report: Central vs. hybrid capacity markets: What’s in it for flexibility?

EPICO released a new analysis, conducted in collaboration with Aurora, on Germany’s energy market.

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Policy Report: How can hydrogen fuel climate-neutral aviation in the EU?

This Policy Paper advances concrete policy recommendations to scale up the use of hydrogen in the aviation sector.

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Policy Report: Accelerating a technology-neutral flexibility strategy for the German market

This policy report highlights the need for an integrated approach to increasing flexibility in Germany's electricity market.

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Policy Paper: Accelerating EU industry competitiveness: Paving the way for the next policy cycle

This Policy Paper outlines 6 recommendations to strengthen the EU’s economic and energy sectors. The paper is personally supported EPICO’s Advisory Board.

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Policy Paper: An Industrial Agenda to Increase Germany's Energy Resilience

This Policy Paper proposes 10 principles to guide energy policymaking and puts forward 5 policy recommendations to accelerate Germany’s transition towards climate neutrality.

Policy Paper: A New Industrial Agenda: Increasing Germany’s Energy Resilience

EPICO KlimaInnovation and the Energy Resilience Leadership Group published a policy paper on how to boost Germany's and the EU's energy resilience.

Policy Brief: CCS and Climate Neutrality Developing a Pathway for Germany

EPICO KlimaInnovation and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung published a policy brief on CCS and Climate Neutrality and developing a Pathway for Germany.

Policy Brief: Piloting the Climate Club in the Steel Sector Focus on the Quick Wins, Create a Safe Space for Dialogue

EPICO KlimaInnovation and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung published a policy brief on how the Climate Club can contribute to the decarbonisation of the steel sector.

Publication: EU Hydrogen Diplomacy in Africa and the Middle East: A Just Regional Energy Transition

This publication comprises four policy briefs investigating potential hydrogen-partners to the EU in Africa and the Middle East.

Policy Brief: EU-Kazakhstan Green Hydrogen Partnership: Mapping Barriers and Establishing a Roadmap

The policy brief suggests three key actions for Kazakhstan to play an important role in the EU’s future energy security and decarbonisation.

Policy Report: An Industrial Power Price for Germany: Assessment of policy proposals and potential ways forward

In this policy note we examine the proposed industrial power price, consisting of the short-term ‘bridge power price’ and a long-term ‘transformation power price’. Also, we compare them to other proposed alternatives.

Sectoral Climate Alliances for Higher Ambitions: Putting Plurilateral Climate Cooperation on the G20 Agenda

This Policy Brief for Task Force 4 (Refuelling Growth: Clean Energy and Green Transitions) for the G20 Summit in India in 2023 examines the role of plurilateral climate cooperation for supporting industrial decarbonisation. Two proposals are used as the basis for the analysis: the G7 proposal for a climate club, and the proposal from Indian stakeholders for a Global Climate Alliance (GCA).

10 point paper: Industrial Agenda for Energy and Climate Policy

We are at a decisive moment for Europe. The energy crisis threatens to seriously impair the international competitiveness of large sectors of industry. At the same time, Europe and especially Germany must find a suitable response to a new industrial policy by leading economies.

Report: Design Options for a European Hydrogen Bank

Many were surprised when President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announced the establishment of the European Hydrogen Bank in her State of the Union speech in September 2022. In the speech, she declared that the instrument would be a flagship initiative for the upcoming year and would be endowed with €3 billion from the Innovation Fund to guarantee the purchase of hydrogen.

Report: Where to go? Assessment of market design options for the European Electricity and Gas Market

Following the Russian aggression and invasion of Ukraine, the EU’s energy market has been affected by dire consequences such as raising costs of gas and electricity. On top of adopting short-term measures, in the 2023 Working Programme, the European Commission pledged to introduce more permanent reforms to the current energy market by the end of the first quarter of 2023

Discussion Paper: Perspectives on designing a climate club

When the Group of 7 (G7), a group of the world’s most developed industrial nations (the United States of America, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Canada) met in Elmau on 28 June 2022, one of the big deliverables under the German presidency was the ‘G7 Statement on Climate Club’.