The ODYSSEE-MURE project (www.odyssee-mure.eu) achieved the following main results:
i. ODYSSEE-MURE provides two comprehensive databases covering each EU Member State (EU MS), the EU, as well as UK, Switzerland and Serbia, so as to feed the reporting needs of the EU Member States under the National Energy and Climate Plans NECPs with the most up-to-date information: ODYSSEE is a database on energy consumption and energy efficiency indicators, MURE is a database on energy efficiency measures and their impact evaluation. These tools were renewed and extended by an experienced team comprising national energy efficiency agencies from 27 EU Member States (plus UK, Norway, Switzerland and Serbia), and a strong Technical Coordination (ADEME, ENERDATA, Fraunhofer ISI).
ii. Both databases are accompanied by powerful analytical facilities which help MS to exploit the data in the two databases:
- the decomposition facility (which helps to explain changes in primary and final energy which are important targets under the Energy Efficiency Directive EED),
- the energy saving facility (which shows the distance to targets under the EED and national targets),
- the market diffusion facility (which follows the diffusion of energy efficiency technologies)
- the comparison facility (which benchmarks the energy performance against a selection of other countries by normalising a number of factors)
- the policy mapper (which shows the interaction between energy efficiency policies aiming at the same end-use)
- the successful measure facility (which helps to identify successful energy efficiency measures),
- the European Energy Efficiency Scoreboard (which scores EU Member States according to energy efficiency levels, trends and policies)
iii. ODYSSEE-MURE provides new and innovative training and didactical documents to national, regional and local administrations in EU MS and to the European Commission to raise their capacity and expertise in the field of energy efficiency monitoring and impact evaluation as a basis for future policy making, contributing to the energy efficiency target for 2030. In the project, ODYSSEE-MURE supported Member States through regional and national training events as well as dissemination products such as country/sector profiles, newsletters, policy briefs and webinars.
iv. ODYSSEE-MURE provides support to MS in developing an indicator approach to the Energy Efficiency First Principle. For this purpose, we developed a new facility on the EE1 principle which supports analyzing the role of the EE1 principle. Particular challenges under the EE1 principle are sufficiency trends and energy poverty. Sufficiency trends include also the influence of societal trends which may enhance or reduce energy consumption (such as rebound effects, the shared economy, the digital economy etc.). ODYSSEE-MURE supports further governments with information on specific energy efficiency policies or policy design to combat energy poverty.
v. ODYSSEE-MURE extends the evaluation of the impact of energy efficiency from energy and CO2 savings, as already done in ODYSSEE and MURE, to the multiple other benefits of energy efficiency.
