MURE has three main components:

• a qualitative database of measures undertaken by the EU Member States at national level and directly by the EU to promote energy conservation in four end-use sectors: Households, Transport, Industry and Tertiary (the services sector). Measures may be legislative, normative, fiscal and financial, but also information campaigns, energy audits, negotiated agreements etc.
• a quantitative database of energy related statistics covering the EU Member States, Norway and Croatia, disaggregated by end-use sector and by detailed energy uses.
• a simulation tool to carry out calculations of energy savings and emissions reduction potentials in each of the four sectors.

The database of measures currently includes some 1500 items, consistently described and classified according to specific keywords, thus allowing to carry out queries based on such descriptors as, e.g. the nature of the measure, the targeted audience, the end-uses involved, etc.
- Building RUE scenarios with MURE.
MURE is a bottom-up, technology-related simulation tool, allowing to:

• choose the end-use sector for the simulation (household or transport or industry or tertiary)
• identify and select the scope of the interventions (or policies) that one wants to simulate
• describe the interventions in detail.
• make assumptions on the future performance of the technologies
• make assumptions on the future penetration rates that can be expected for each of the envisaged technologies.
• produce results in terms of technical and economic energy savings potential corresponding to a single measure or a cumulated set of interventions that one has selected. The results are automatically compared to a reference scenario.