ANALYSIS AND MODELLING

July 2008 - March 2010

Actions:

• defining the VPS concept, both from a technological and an business point of view

• optimizing the model according to regional economies and spatial development

• developing techno- and socio-economic analysis

• fitting regional models:
  partners will express different needs and attempt solutions for VPSs

• transferring knowledge on a transnational scale

Expected results:

• white book

• regional VPS assessment criteria

• study on the European and world-wide status quo plus feasibility of meta-VPSs
  (joint transnational marketing of renewable power)

• study on the regional status quo as a base for the development of local VPS concepts
  (benefits, potentials for regional energy sources, legal and compensation framework, business models)

• VPS master plans for every region

• long term master plan

• plan for transnational cooperation in the implementation of pilot and demonstration elements