Type: Policy Briefs

Policy Brief #0 – Electric Motor Systems Platform Overview

This Policy Brief gives an overview of EMSA’s work focus until 2029 and highlights relevant work outcomes to date.

Policy Brief # 9 – Electric motor systems: why are they important?

This Policy Brief assesses the importance of electric motor systems in the global energy system. In 2023, electric motor systems were responsible for 53% of global electricity consumption. Their share in electricity consumption varies widely across sectors: 72% in industry, 36% in buildings, 87% in agriculture and 86% in the transportation sector.

Policy Brief: Data Centre Energy Efficiency Labels

This Policy Brief summarises the key findings of the 4E EDNA report: Data Centre Energy Efficiency Labels, which explores the characteristics and effectiveness of existing data centre energy efficiency labels and suggests features for a worldwide applicable labelling scheme.

Policy Brief: Public Data on Data Centre Energy Use

This Policy Brief summarises the key findings of the 4E EDNA report: Public Data on Data Centre Energy Use which examines what data on energy use by data centres is publicly available and how this can be collected, stored and presented on a regular basis.

Policy Brief: Circular Economy-Compatible Power Electronics and New Application Areas

This Policy Brief provides considerations around circular economy-compatible power electronics and new application areas. It summarises insights gained from recently published work supported by the 4E PECTA platform.

Policy Brief: Wide Bandgap Industrial Variable Speed Drives Research Roadmap

This Policy Brief highlights the importance of wide bandgap power semiconductors in industrial variable speed drives and introduces the Research Roadmap developed by EMSA in cooperation with PECTA. The Research Roadmap aims to facilitate the adoption of this new technology by addressing key challenges with dedicated research topics over the course of the next few years.

Policy Brief #8 – Wide Bandgap Industrial Variable Speed Drives Research Roadmap

This Policy Brief highlights the importance of wide bandgap power semiconductors in industrial variable speed drives and introduces the Research Roadmap developed by EMSA in cooperation with PECTA. The Research Roadmap aims to facilitate the adoption of this new technology by addressing key challenges with dedicated research topics over the course of the next few years.

Policy Brief: Application Readiness Map for Wide Bandgap (WBG) Semiconductors

This policy brief summarizes the results of the PECTA Application Readiness Map (ARM) for Wide Bandgap (WBG) Semiconductors report and describes the expected market position through to 2035. It is based on interviews with many experts and various roadmaps and can be used as a basis for deciding, which power semiconductor technology to choose.

Policy Brief #7 – Digitalisation in electric motor driven systems: key findings from four reports

This Policy Brief summarises the key findings of four recent EMSA publications on digitalisation in electric motor systems.

Policy Brief: The Energy Saving Potential of Wide Band Gap Technology in selected applications

This policy brief summarises the key findings of the 2023 PECTA report Energy saving potential of WBG-commercial power converters in different applications. It provides an update of the potential energy savings given in the detailed analysis of the published Policy Brief in December 2020 (PECTA 1).

Policy Brief – Policy Development on Energy Efficiency of Data Centres

Provides an overview of initiatives for data centres; summarises the energy savings from potential measures and presents a range of issues for policy makers to consider.

Policy brief – Harnessing Smart and Dumb Devices

This policy brief deals with harnessing energy benefits from the ‘internet of things’ and how to turn existing ‘dumb’ appliances into smart ones using retrofit solutions.

Policy Brief – Interoperability

Policy brief pertaining to the issue of appliance ‘interoperability’ and the impact of this on demand flexibility.

Policy Brief – Energy Management Protocols

Summarises the EDNA Guide to Energy Management Protocols, which is a resource for policy makers. Gives an overview, description and categorisation of protocols, their relevance to energy management, and details of market uptake.

Policy Brief #6 – Round Robin for Variable Speed Drives

This Policy Brief summarises the key findings of the international Round Robin for Variable Speed Drives.

Policy Brief – Emerging Battery Technologies

Summarises the EDNA report which examined battery technologies for consumer electronics.  Considers performance, environmental impacts, cost and market readiness.

Policy Brief #5 – Coordination between IEC and ISO standards for efficient electric motor driven systems

This policy brief explains the significance of an ISO (International Organisation for Standardization) / IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) Joint Advisory Group (JAG 22) established in October 2021.

Policy Brief #4 – Digital technologies for motor systems

This Policy Brief shows the key findings of the EMSA report Classification of digitalisation technologies for electric motor driven systems.

Policy Brief – Blockchain Energy Consumption

This policy brief explains how blockchains work, their use for cryptocurrencies and resulting energy consumption.

Policy Brief – Small Network Equipment

Provides policy considerations for improving the energy efficiency of small network equipment such as modems, routers, network extenders, etc.