The Energy Framework

tackles the main issues facing investors, politicians and industrialists; their energy partners and end users: As well as being an overview of energy options, it is a tool that can be used by citizens, policy makers and analysts alike. It provides a bridge, and a methodology, for understanding, measuring, assessing and impacting decisions on the future of energy.

Specific Uses

Unbiased Breakdown:

~A way to deconstruct & evaluate information (articles, statements, claims and counter claims) using consistent and neutral criteria.

'Breakthrough' Reality-check:

~A quick way to check how and when ideas, or new technology (often sensationally presented), will have impact in terms of source to use, time, and other factors.

Studied Assessments:

Source-to-use: ~A basis for in depth source-to-use analysis, like 'Well-to-Wheels', of each energy option and variation: 'Wave to Wire?'; 'Sun-to-Switch?'.
Comparative: ~Promotes point-for-point, side-by-side comparisons of energy options, illuminating areas of costs, output, strength, difference and drawbacks.
Economic Impact: ~Isolate potential areas for job growth, economic development and investment potential.
Infrastructure: ~Identify demands of resource movement, transmission, delivery & other functions that fall between the steps of source-to-use analysis.

Measurement:

~A metric-based measurement system or 'index' has been designed to be built from the Energy Framework.

Consumer Evaluation:

~Which transportation? Which heating method? 'Best-option' consumer analysis is facilitated, including 'true' costs all the way back to source.

Educating and Communicating:

Wider considerations: ~Laying out the issues and scope; allowing people to 'get' the scale and see the challenges of change alongside societal, environmental and economic impacts.
Narrower considerations: ~Identifying disconnects, contradictions, and dependencies in areas where a breakthrough is needed.

Time Based Views:

Projection by Energy Option: ~Realistic evaluation of a particular solution in terms of time to market, scalability and longevity of use and effect. Now and into the future.
Projection in Time: ~Given the 'now' in any economy, what's he best 5 -10 - 20 - 50 year mix of solutions?
Avoiding Quick-fix Errors: ~Expediency with politics often leads to questionable investments (as seen in Ethanol from food policy), such issues can be identified earlier.

Conservation Efforts:

~Challenging each stage of production in any system towards efficiency, capture and reuse. Creating closed loop systems maximising energy re-use as strategy.

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The Energy Framework
Original Statement of Intent

The Energy Framework will be a 'model' or 'structural housing' designed to encapsulate information on all aspects of the Energy Industry in all it's guises.

The Energy Framework Objectives:

~To be strictly neutral in all aspects of publication and assessment.
~To bring clarity to discussions of Energy by mapping information to the framework.
~To establish fair assessment by continually deconstructing articles, statements, claims and counter claims using the same consistent criteria.
~To greatly extend knowledge and understanding of Energy options, now, in the short term and into the future.
~To establish a framework for education at all levels.
~To inform public debate, political decision making and financial investment decisions.
~To create - for experts, investors and policy makers - a neutral forum for debate and a vehicle for advocacy.

The Energy Framework will be presented online for educatioal access and user contribution.