Today the global energy setting is affected by profound changes that are redrawing the consumption map and demand is expected to develop in a deep uneven way over the coming decades.
Against a backdrop of growing awareness of the costs associated with climate change, the European Union has long since embarked on a decisive transition to a system with low climate-changing gas emissions.

The multiple factors and uncertainties associated with the decarbonization path make it very difficult to identify an unambiguous evolution of the European energy system. Speaking of medium- to long-term time horizons, the only possible approach is therefore the use of scenario analyses; of course, scenarios are not forecasts, but represent descriptions of possible alternative evolutions of a system based on a set of internally consistent assumptions.

Building on this premise is DiveRSE Visions, a new monograph strand offering RSE’s extensive field experience. In recent weeks the first volume Scenarios and Analysis in Support of the National Energy Strategy has been published: this hefty 168-page compendium act as a valuable tool to support the choices that Italian stakeholders in the energy sector will have to make in the next 10-15 years.

“Indeed, through scenario analysis,” reads the first pages of the text, “the different components of the energy system can be explored in an integrated way, so as to make quantitative assessments of the consequences of objectives and policies and provide decision makers with guidance on possible actions in different sectors.