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Main Research Areas
CenSES is divided in five major research areas, which includes policy recommendations, tools and models,
strategies and scenarios. Each research area consist of several specific work packages.
Research Area 1: Policy making and transition strategies
Research Area 2: Energy systems and markets
Research Area 3: Economic analysis
Research Area 4: Innovation, commercialization and public engagement
Research Area 5: Scenario development
Scenario development is an arena of integration where policy and framework conditions, technology strategies,
investment strategies and impacts are to be coupled in a consistent way. In addition, selected user cases are
implemented across the research areas.