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Piet G.M. Boonekamp (1948) finished his study at the Technical University of Eindhoven, in the faculty of Electrical Engineering, with a thesis on ?Developing a linear programming model of the Dutch energy supply system?. He worked temporarily at the university in a research project on ?long term relationship between energy consumption and production in industrial sectors?. In 1978 he joined the just established Energy Study Centre of ECN, which should advise government on future energy policy matters. During his years at ECN he worked on the following subjects:

• Energy model building at national level, cogeneration and end-use sectors (households).
• Execution of National Energy Outlook, in support of energy and environmental policy makers.
• Electricity supply: capacity planning, load dispatch, load-curves, industrial cogeneration and costs of base-load electricity production.
• Energy demand: savings owing to policy measures with bottom-up household simulation model.
• Monitoring and evaluation of energy and emission trends, with emphasis on energy savings, both at national and international level.  

Next to his work in projects he was, for a number of years, coordinator of unit activities in the field of national energy policy and later group leader of the section National energy policy. Since 2001 he is coordinator of Platform Monitoring Energy savings (PME), consisting of MNP/RIVM, SenterNovem, CBS and ECN, which regularly provides figures about realised energy savings in the Netherlands. Since 2003 he is member of the Technical Coordination committee of the international Odyssee project on energy indicators. Further on, he participates in the national Discussion Platform on Energy issues (Bezinningsgroep Energie).

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