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Europe's clean tech roll out: how to ensure an evidence-based green transition?

Publishing date
02 April 2024
Authors
Simone Tagliapietra
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Economic policy should be informed by reliable and transparent data. Unfortunately, when it comes to the green transition, which is one of the biggest transformations of our time, Europe continues to have a significant data problem. Clean tech data remains significantly fragmented and difficult to access and it is often only available on a commercial basis. This is problematic: transparent and granular data on clean tech innovation, manufacturing and deployment is essential to guide Europe’s green transition moving forward.

After almost a year of preparations, we are happy to announce the launch of our ‘European clean tech tracker’. With this initiative, we aim to provide a clear, timely and policy-relevant overview of the main innovation, manufacturing and deployment trends characterising the leading technologies which underpin the green transition. 

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This first version of the tracker showcases the main manufacturing and deployment trends for solar energy, wind energy, batteries and electric vehicles, hydrogen and heat-pumps. The tracker will be regularly updated as new data becomes available. Over time, the topics covered within the tracker will expand to include trends in innovation and will include new technologies such as grids, nuclear energy, carbon capture, sequestration and more.

The tracker is designed to be regularly updated and stakeholders are encouraged to provide feedback and additional data to improve its coverage and granularity. We hope the tracker will become a critical tool to inform public sector and private sector decision-making processes, as well as the broader public discourse on Europe’s green transition.

Explore the European clean tech tracker by Ben McWilliams, Simone Tagliapietra and Cecilia Trasi here. 

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About the authors

  • Simone Tagliapietra

    Simone Tagliapietra is a Senior fellow at Bruegel.

    He is also a Part-time professor at the Florence School of Transnational Governance (STG) of the European University Institute and an Adjunct professor at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Europe of The Johns Hopkins University.

    His research focuses on the EU climate and energy policy, and on its industrial and social dimensions. With a record of numerous policy and scientific publications, also in leading journals such as Nature and Science, he is the author of Global Energy Fundamentals (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and co-author of The Macroeconomics of Decarbonisation (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

    On the basis of his policy and scientific production, Dr. Tagliapietra regularly supports EU and national institutions in the development of their public policies in the field of climate and energy, also through regular interaction with public decision-makers in EU and national institutions, as well as through regular parliamentary testimonies in the European Parliament and various national parliamentary assemblies inside and outside Europe, such as the French Senate, the UK House of Lords and the US Senate. His columns and policy work are widely published and cited in leading international media.

    Dr. Tagliapietra also is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Clean Air Task Force (CATF) and Senior associate of the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden. He holds a PhD in International Political Economy from the Catholic University of Milan, where he previously graduated under the supervision of Professor Alberto Quadrio Curzio and where he also served as an Assistant professor (tenure-track) until 2024. Born in the Dolomites in 1988, he speaks Italian, English and French.

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