EMMA is short for Energy and Environmental Models for ADAM and is a macroeconomic tool. The model is a satellite model to ADAM, and was earlier developed at Statistics Denmark, but from October 2008 EMMA was moved to Danish Energy Agency.
Brief description of EMMA EMMA acts as a satellite model to ADAM on both data and software side. ADAM is a macro-econometric model of the Danish economy, developed at Statistics Denmark and is used particularly of ministries, banks and interest groups. EMMA is a necessary tool to carry out environmental assessments of economic measures and can also be used to evaluate what effect a given finance bill will have on the environment. Scenarios by EMMA might for example provide an estimation of whether Denmark will meet its target of reducing CO2 emissions, and impact calculations can then give their opinions on how much energy taxes (or other factors) can contribute.
Read a more detailed description of the EMMA model here:
General beskrivelse af EMMA-modellen in Danish (pdf file).
The story of EMMA For many years, EMMA was developed at Statistics Denmark alongside with ADAM, but from October 2008 EMMA has been managed and developed by Danish Energy Agency. Currently the maintenance of EMMA is funded and development by Energinet.dk, Danish Energy Association and Danish Energy Agency jointly. Companies are using the EMMA-model to make scenarios of energy consumption based on an economic growth cycle.
Information and documentation For further information, recent documentation and working papers from 2008 can be downloaded from the
Danish website. The documentation is only a temporary draft and should not be referred to without an agreement with Danish Energy Agency. The new documentation is an update of the documents from 1997, which are also available. Furthermore, additional information on EMMA can be retrieved from Statistics Denmark's original site of the EMMA model (see external links on the right side of this page).