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September 2025
Sustainable Industry Lab: Support on systemic pain
Quo Mare contributed to this report by Sustainable Industry Lab with a quantitative analysis on required investments in the energy and carbon system.
Report
August 2025
Study after the impact of the Dutch CO2 levy
The study concludes that a higher national CO2 levy seriously threatens the survival of energy-intensive industry in the Netherlands and will mainly lead to rapid, large-scale industrial leakage instead of actual reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
Report
July 2025
The Quo Mare Energy Hub Optimizer offers businesses scenarios for lower energy costs, sustainability and autonomy at Energie Coöperatie Amsterdamse Haven.
The new Energy Hub Optimizer, tested with twelve members of the Amsterdam Port Energy Cooperative, provides clear data showing how a collective approach leads to lower energy costs, increased sustainability, and greater energy autonomy.
Report
July 2025
Local energy gives companies room to grow, even with a full power grid
Local energy generation helps entrepreneurs move forward and reduces grid congestion. The combination of solar and wind energy, storage, and peer-to-peer energy exchange works best. It can save businesses a great deal of money, annual energy costs can drop by up to fifty percent.
Report
May 2025
Control the Controllable: The Role of Dispatchable Capacity in the Dutch Energy System
Fewer gas plants and more demand for electricity are putting pressure on security of supply. Calling politicians to "take action now."
Report
March 2025
Carbon feedstock transition of the petrochemical industry under spatial limitations
The transition from fossil-based to renewable feedstocks presents major spatial and economic challenges for the Harbor Industrial Cluster (HIC) Rotterdam. This scenario study, conducted by the Tekenkamer van de Industrie, Deltalinqs, and Quo Mare, explores how different future scenarios impact the transition of the refining and chemical industries, considering spatial limitations, and geopolitical and economic uncertainties.
Report
September 2024
Cluster Energy Strategy North Sea Canal Area (NZKG)
The Cluster Energy Strategy of the North Sea Canal Area 2024 (CES NZKG 2024) describes how the industry in the NZKG, together with grid operators, governments and other stakeholders, wants to become more sustainable. How do we achieve the climate goals, how will the energy transition to a sustainable energy system take shape and at the same time contribute to a healthier physical living environment?
Report
September 2024
Cluster Energy Strategy Rotterdam-Moerdijk
As the largest industrial cluster in the Netherlands and energy port in Europe, Rotterdam-Moerdijk is hereby committed to building sustainable value chains in which we have a strategic advantage: hydrogen, circular raw materials & fuels and sustainable transport. To this end, industry is working on more than 300 sustainability projects in the cluster. This Cluster Energy Strategy provides insight into the infrastructure needed for this transformation.
Report
September 2024
Cluster Energy Strategy Schelde-Delta Region
The CES 3.0 describes projects that the Dutch part of this cross-border industry cluster is carrying out to meet the CO2 reduction targets and gives an idea of the infrastructure that is being developed to facilitate this. Impact analyses of the projects and developments have been calculated for the energy system.
Report
August 2024
Quo Mare and Public Affairs: Large cost differences in climate policy choices
In this report, compiled by Public Affairs Energy Research & Strategy (PZ ERS) and Quo Mare, two scenarios are compared for the transition to an energy system in 2050 that fits within the set goals. The differences are highlighted. Two transformation scenarios are presented: the Net-Zero - or CO2-neutral - scenario and the fossil-free scenario.
Article
June 2024
Building the energy systems of the future: three insights beyond polarization
There are opportunities to work toward a sustainable and affordable energy system, but the political debate about the energy transition often gets bogged down in polarized debates.
Report
May 2024
Tax burden Cracks Recyclers: Analysis of differences in tax burden between virgin and recycled plastics
The European Commission is aiming for a circular economy by 2050, with the Netherlands striving to implement related rules as early as 2027. Although this shift should benefit the recycling industry, the sector is currently under significant pressure. To better understand the challenges, especially related to tax burdens, Publieke Zaken ERS and Companty conducted a study for Attero B.V.
Report
October 2023
Assessment of policy instruments for hydrogen in the Netherlands
In this study, Trinomics and Quo Mare assessed the impact of different policy options considered by the Dutch government to facilitate domestic production of renewable hydrogen in electrolysers and its use in hard-to-decarbonise processes. This study is commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy (EZK) to inform the decision-making process with respect to national hydrogen policies.
Report
September 2023
HyChain 4: Integral hydrogen-based supply chain development
This report showcases the findings of a three-year innovation project, and provides a deeper understanding of drivers and mechanisms that steer the development of new hydrogen value chains, with a primary focus on decarbonization of hard-to-abate industries.
Paper
September 2023
Data and Modelling for transition planning in industry
This whitepaper offers a small glimpse into how data and modeling tools can support companies and industrial clusters in making the right investment decisions, regarding their transition to a new system. We briefly show how modeling can work in practice, with examples and applications from the Smart Delta Resources industrial region in Zeeland.
Report
July 2023
Deltalinqs Climate Program 2023
The companies in Rotterdam's Port and Industrial Complex (HIC) face a major task in the energy and raw materials transition. That is why Deltalinqs established the Climate Program. The Deltalinqs Climate Program (DCP) unites companies in the Rotterdam port area that want to realize the energy and raw materials transition and simultaneously strengthen the competitive position as an innovative port cluster.
Paper
May 2023
Accelerating the Energy Transition: Determining No-Regret Transition Pathways in the Port of Rotterdam
This paper outlines a Mixed-Integer Multi-Period Linear Programming approach to identify so-called no-regret energy transition pathways. The methodology presented is essentially a trilemma-solver that supports industry, network operators, and regional governments to decide upon efficient and effective investments to meet CO2 reduction targets. The decarbonization of an industrial cluster like the Port of Rotterdam (PoR) is presented as a case study to demonstrate the approach.
Article
April 2023
The energy system of the future
That the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement must be met is beyond question, but how do we ensure that we do this in the most cost-effective way? Charge, in collaboration with the Scientific Institute of the ChristenUnie, commissioned a project by consultancy Quo Mare that provides tools to make this more transparent. With this project, the WI ChristenUnie and Charge brought the insights based on a mathematical energy transition model from Quo Mare to grassroots representatives and group supporters.
Article
February 2023
First results toward a circular steel and chemical industry
The steel industry is a major contributor to global CO2 emissions, but current developments in the Steel2Chemicals project suggest that this could become a thing of the past. A joint initiative between Dow, ArcelorMittal, Tata Steel, Ghent University, TNO and ISPT demonstrates how collaboration can lead to the development of a circular carbon chain based on high technology.
Paper
October 2022
Optimizing the Supply Chain supporting NL Offshore Wind Ambitions
The ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy has adjusted its national innovation policies by giving more emphasis to so called mission-driven innovation. The innovation program titled Renewable energy at sea, has the goal to realize the mission ''a CO2-free electricity system in 2050''.
Paper
June 2022
The Value of Integrated Modeling in support of Determining Optimal Energy and Infrastructure Transition Pathways
The Dutch government requires each industrial cluster in the Netherlands to come forward with plans to lower CO2 emissions by 50% in 2030 and 100% in 2050 as part of the Dutch Cluster Energy-transition Strategies (CES). This calls for a methodology in which both infrastructure and industry choices need to be aligned in terms of sizing, timing and locations/trajectories. To support this decision process, a Quo Mare propriety tool called TEACOS (Techno-Economic Analysis of Complex Options Spaces) is used.
Article
March 2022
Increasing Speed and Efficiency of Vaccine Distribution During Uncertainty
Like many government authorities around the world, The Netherlands Municipal Health Services (GGD-GHOR) faced a daunting task in early 2021. It was responsible for the process of vaccinating all Dutch adults over 18. Together with the Dutch government, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and other partners the limited supply of COVID vaccines had to be allocated across the country. In a short amount of time, Quo Mare was able to build a tool with scenario modeling using AIMMS optimization software.
Article
October 2021
Help base decisions on data
Technological transitions such as the energy transition cause variations in a multitude of parameters. So many, in fact, that these cannot be overseen by humans. In such a complex situation, which technology should be chosen? When should investments be made? And which location is best? Quo Mare in Gouda builds and operates decision support models to help out.
Paper
July 2021
System optimization and cost-benefit analysis of water reuse: an acknowledgement study in East Brabant
Recent droughts have led to discussions about water reuse and the economical use of freshwater in the Netherlands. In the project 'WWTP as Water Factory for a robust water supply' looked at the hydrological effects of water reuse, system optimization and cost-benefit analysis of different system solutions. With an AquaVest model, the cheapest water infrastructure solution was identified and its costs and benefits identified. The solutions explored are: effluent to agriculture, industry or as groundwater recharge. The impact of existing policies, such as groundwater charges, on the affordability of the system solution was also considered.
Paper
April 2021
Model study: Heat Grid Canal Zone Terneuzen-Gent
This exploratory project will provide insight into whether supply of industrial residual heat and demand for heat in the built environment in the Canal Zone can be linked together with the help of techno-economic modeling of disconnection, pipeline routes, interconnection and the calculation of potential business cases.
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