Renewable Heating and Cooling Pathways, Measures and Milestones for the implementation of the recast Renewable Energy Directive and full decarbonisation by 2050

The aim of the study is to provide the analytical basis for Commission implementation and policy development work with a view to ensure a seamless pathway to the full decarbonisation of the heating and cooling sector by 2050 in buildings and industry. The study analyses the pre-requisites for ensuring a seamless transition between the Clean Energy Package and the EU long-term 2050 decarbonisation objectives. This overarching objective will be reached by fulfilling the following specific objectives: •Establishing economic potentials of renewable heating and cooling supply deployment via individual and district (communal) solutions; • Providing recommendations for measures and milestones as well as for the legal, regulatory and investment framework to realise those potentials via scenarios and portfolios of measures in the perspectives of the EU’s 2030 and 2050 climate and energy objectives and beyond; •Performing highly detailed and disaggregated modelling of specific scenarios, pathways and measures to decarbonise heating and cooling through renewable energy sources; •Establishing quantified milestones of renewable heating and cooling deployment, provide benchmarks to assess progress, including progress under Article 23 and 24 of the recast Renewable Energy Directive (2018/2001/EU) in mainstreaming renewables in the heating and cooling sector.