EurEnDel is the first Europe-wide Delphi study
on Energy, entrusted by the European Commission
DG Research. EurEnDel assesses long-term developments
in energy technologies, their potentials and
expected impacts. The perspective taken combines a
technology push with a social pull approach, embracing
a time horizon of 30 years. The liberalisation of the
energy sector, the increasing amount of trans-national
research as well as rapid technology developments
challenge today's innovation systems and demand a
greater integration and cohesion into EU-wide innovation
strategies. EurEnDel employs a Union-wide Delphi
survey to cover the need for reliable information on
long-term trends and developments, which will then be
presented in form of scenarios as guiding lines for
future research priorities. Thus this paper provides the
rationale and design of the foresight study as well as
some preliminary results
