Potentials Project focuses on…

The unique aspects of coupled end-of-life coal mine sites and coal-fired power plants, along with closely related neighbouring industries, taking advantage of their joint potential to stimulate new economic activities, developing jobs and economic value in Coal Regions in Transition.

Project aim

 



POTENTIALS will identify and assess their synergistic opportunities by means of a prospective analysis, enabling to develop business models that rely on renewable energy, contribute to the circular economy or scale energy storage, guaranteeing a sustainable and combined use of assets and resources, and supporting the update and re-adoption of territorial just transition plans.

Our approach

 



POTENTIALS’ approach is premised on the notion that in order to stimulate new economic activities and jobs in Coal Regions in Transition, management decisions should be based on a prospective analysis of business models that rely on renewable energy, contribute to the circular economy or scale energy storage. Guaranteeing a sustainable and combined use of assets and resources, otherwise overlooked in these high-velocity environments of phasing out processes, is the necessary ingredient for sound decision-making.