Energy Efficiency Associations’ Joint Letter to EU Energy Commissioner
Today COGEN Europe, together with CECED, European Copper Institute, EFIEES, ELC, Eurima, EuroACE and Glass for Europe, sent a joint letter to Mr Piebalgs, EU Commissioner for Energy, drawing his attention to the European Parliament Resolution of 9 July 2008 on the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (2008/2005(INI)) which urges the European Commission to have energy efficiency fully supported by the plan. The letter notes paragraph 30, where the European Parliament: “Insists that energy efficiency should figure more prominently in the SET-Plan, since it is the area with the most potential for cost effective emission reductions in the medium term”. The eight energy efficiency associations strongly support the European Parliament in this view and highlight to the Commission the urgent need to have energy efficiency clearly included in the Energy and Climate Package as a whole. Please find the letter here.

UK Government urged to follow German FiT model
Leading building services figures have called on the Government to follow the example set by Germany on feed-in tariffs (FiTs) to support renewable and microgeneration technologies. German users of CHP and PV are set to receive generous fees for the electricity they generate in their homes and offices from January 1 next year. CHP owners will receive between 11.59 and 13 euro cents for every kWh they generate. This consists of a quarterly agreed price from their utility company, an "avoided network usage" payment for not taking power from the grid and an additional CHP bonus of 5.11 cents. They already receive a guaranteed premium price for any excess electricity they sell back. The German parliament has just passed the CHP Act, which guarantees these generous feed-in and own usage tariffs until 2016, allowing users to invest in CHP engines with confidence.
Read more here.

Final Newsletter of the T@W project
COGEN Europe is a partner in the T@W (Sustainable Energy Technology at Work) project. This project strives at uniformed effort on addressing the EU interests in the carbon markets, comprising EU policy goals as well as business opportunities. The T@W team welcomes all European actors and cooperation partners outside EU to join our mission and enhance Sustainable Technologies at Work. The project team has published the seventh and last T@W Newsletter (click here or visit http://www.setatwork.eu/newsletter.htm). The T@W project, which came to an end in Spring 2008, will be continued and complemented by the project SETatWork. SETatWork will start in August 2008 and will have a particular emphasis on energy efficiency. The focal point of both projects is to promote sustainable energy technologies at carbon markets in coordination with market actors. For further information about T@W and SETatWork, please visit http://www.setatwork.eu or contact info@setatwork.eu

£100m green power plant plan to power paper mill£100m green power plant plan to power paper mill
A £100 million green power plant is to be built at a paper mill in Fife. The 45-megawatt biomass plant will cut the Tullis Russell paper mill's carbon emissions by about 250,000 tonnes a year. About two-thirds of its power is expected to go into the national grid. The CHP plant will provide the paper mill in Markinch, near Glenrothes, with heat and electricity and will create 30 jobs. It currently uses a coal-fired plant to provide its steam and electricity. The new plant will be built by RWE Npower Cogen and Tullis Russell, with the aid of £8.1 million in funding from the Scottish Government. Alex Salmond, the First Minister, said: "The project complements the Scottish Government's work to make Scotland greener." Dr Doug Parr, Greenpeace chief scientist, said: "Assuming the biomass comes from sustainable sources, this is exactly the kind of project needed to tackle climate change and increase energy security."

Ener-G supplies trigeneration system to Stratford Eye development
Renewable power developer Ener-G is supplying trigeneration technology to the Stratford Eye, a mixed-tenure development of offices and apartments, to help it create its own cooling, heating and electricity. The Stratford Eye development overlooks the Olympics site in East London, and as a high-visibility structure seeks to establish London's green credentials for the 2012 Olympic Games. The combined cooling, heating and power (CCHP) equipment will reduce the 19-storey building's C02 emissions by approximately 93 tonnes per annum, equivalent to the environmental benefits of a 36-hectare forest containing 14,000 trees. The CCHP system recovers heat created in the electricity generation process. Find more here.

Key MEP in the area of energy efficiency calls on the industry to work together
On 22-23 May the Annual Conference of COGEN Europe took place in Brussels. Fiona Hall, MEP and rapporteur on the Energy Efficiency Action Plan, gave the cocktail speech during the Conference Dinner at the BELvue Museum. Mrs Hall provided an overview of what is on offer in the legislation currently under negotiation. Finally she looked ahead and considered what opportunities there might be to push the cogeneration agenda over the next twelve months up to the end of the mandate of this Parliament and Commission. Please find here a copy of the presentation by Mrs Hall.

CHP Workshop in Germany
In its new climate protection package, the German coalition government has drawn up a programme to double the share of CHP plants in electricity production by 2020. For this purpose, the CHP law (KWKG) has been revised, incentives for the efficient use of biomass CHP installations have been improved in amendments to the Renewable Energies Act (EEG), a special funding programme for small CHP plants has been launched, other measures in support of CHP have been introduced in the Renewable Energies Heat Act (EEWG) and new regulations on feeding biogas into the natural gas grid have been adopted. In order to inform national and European CHP stakeholders of the new legislative developments in Germany, B.KWK (the German CHP Association) organises a one-day workshop “The new statutory framework in Germany for combined heat and power generation”. At the workshop, offered at four different locations throughout Germany, well-know legal authorities on energy issues and experts from science and industry explain in depth what this means for investors and operators. Please find the programme here. For more information, please contact B.KWK (tel: +49 (0)30/43 60 79 10; email: info@bkwk.de)

Publication of Germany CHP/DHC Country Scorecard by the International Energy Agency
This week the International Energy Agency (IEA) published its second Country Scorecard: tile time for Germany. This scorecard can be found here and is at free download at http://www.iea.org/G8/CHP/profiles.asp. The IEA is finishing Country Scorecards for China and the United States and expects to publish them before the end of this month. The next set of Country Scorecards (Denmark, Finland, India, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) will be released in the autumn.

Good times for cogeneration in Germany
The enactment of the laws for the support of cogeneration (KWKG) and the amendment to the Renewable Energies Law (EEG) have set the course for the further development of cogeneration, better than the industry had hoped for. The new regulations are supposed to double Germany’s cogeneration energy production (German) to 25 % by 2020, whereas the potential is clearly over 50 %. The amended KWKG supports the cogeneration while keeping the support system (allowances), but in the future without the previous restrictions, such as production-value-limitation in new construction and heat power requirement for renovation. It is especially important for operators of industrial cogeneration facilities as well as private units that in the future the advance is to be paid for self used electricity and directly sold electricity as well. Small units up to 50 kWel will be additionally supported as of 9 September 2008 through investment grants. For more information contact B.KWK, our National Member Organisation in Germany, on http://www.bkwk.de/

Scottish waste policy set to lean towards CHP
Two reports which will help form the "cornerstone" of the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency's policy on the thermal treatment of waste have both advocated the use of combined heat and power. "The guidelines will ensure that thermal treatment in Scotland enables the recovery of energy efficiently and does not impede waste prevention and recycling," SEPA explained. While examining different aspects of waste management, both reports arrive at the conclusion that providing combined heat and power through Energy-from-Waste and anaerobic digestion (AD) is the most sustainable option available for various waste streams. Find more here http://www.letsrecycle.com/do/ecco.py/view_item?listid=37&listcatid=217&listitemid=10160

Fortum completes construction of 23 MW CHP plant in Estonia
Finnish electricity generation group Fortum has built a 23 MW CHP plant in the city of Parnu, Estonia, for a total investment of around 80 million Euro. The plant is scheduled to be operational by the end of 2010. The plant will have a 23 MW heat production capacity. The new power plant will be biomass and peat fuelled. Biomass will be mostly used, depending on its availability in the local market, with the deficit fuel requirement to be covered by peat. Compared to separate generation, switching to CHP generation is expected to considerably increase energy efficiency, with CO2 emissions set to reduce by more than 60%. Jaakko Vaha-Piikkio, president of Fortum Heat in the Baltic countries, said: "At the moment, we have an on-going CHP plant project in the city of Tartu and this new investment in Parnu is an important step in delivering further on our growth strategy in the market."

RWE Innogy starts construction on biomass CHP plant
RWE Innogy has laid the foundation stone for a biomass-fired combined heat and power plant at the Wittgenstein inter-municipal industry park, in the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein. The developer of the plant is RWE Innogy Cogen GmbH, a subsidiary of RWE Innogy. The plant's rated output will be approximately 30 MW of thermal energy and 8 MW of electricity. Production should commence in autumn 2009. "Our combined heat and power plant achieves up to 70% efficiency by generating heat and electricity together. Using wood as fuel, we also save a lot of CO2. Compared with a conventional plant, these savings are of the order of 1.2 million tons, over an expected 25 years of useful life," said Stephan Lohr, managing director of RWE Innogy Cogen. Find more here http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=52906

Director of the IEA calls on national governments to identify and pursue cost-effective cogeneration
On 22-23 May the Annual Conference of COGEN Europe took place in Brussels. The event, opened by Mr Nobuo Tanaka, Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), brought together the stakeholders of the European cogeneration sector. In his speech Mr Tanaka identified that the task to reduce CO2 emissions is urgent, but the capital stock turnover is low and technology deployment needs time. Under these circumstances the IEA recommends that governments start with existing opportunities and that specifically governments should identify and pursue all cost-effective CHP today. Please find here a copy of the presentation by Mr Tanaka.
The Conference titled a “CHP roadmap for Europe” gathered inputs from a wide range of stakeholders, including regulators, manufacturers, national policy-makers, industrial users and the electricity sector, as well as the day to day experience from several Members State markets, to understand what is required to grow cogeneration. Based on the conference output, COGEN Europe will begin to define a staged plan to achieve 230 MWe cogeneration in Europe by 2030.

New CHP system powered from waste
A new energy-from-waste incineration facility, called Isseane, has opened on the banks of the Seine to the west of Paris. Using residual waste as a fuel, the centre will generate 52 MWe and produce heat and hot water equivalent to the needs of 79,000 homes. This energy is classified as a 50% renewable resource by the European Commission. The centre, which processes the residual waste produced by more than one million residents from five districts to the west of Paris and 20 outlying towns, has a capacity of 460,000 tonnes per year, as well as a recycling centre capable of handling 55,000 tonnes of materials per year. Commissioned by SYCTOM, the largest public authority with responsibility for waste disposal in France, the new centre is being operated by TSI, a partnership between TIRU Group (part of EDF) and SITA. It replaces an existing energy from waste facility that had served the city for forty years. Ian Crummack, managing director of TIRU UK, says: 'This new facility in Paris is the largest of its type in Europe. In capacity it is on a par with the EfW plant proposed for London at the Belvedere site, but it has not been surrounded by years of controversy – largely because people in mainland Europe understand far better the benefits of this type of facility, especially the ability to deliver combined heat and power.'

COGEN Europe press release: “Energy Efficiency: the solution to high energy prices”
COGEN Europe today issued a press release, in cooperation with the leading European associations in the energy efficiency sector, calling on the EU Heads of State and Government to strengthen the energy efficiency agenda in Brussels and adopt a mandatory energy efficiency target for Europe in order to limit the impact of high energy prices.

Latest CHP statistics
Please find here the official Eurostat statistics of the EU, Turkey, Norway and Iceland for the year 2006

Summer Base Course on CHP
Cogen Vlaanderen will organise from 15-19 September the 8th edition of its “Summer Base Course on CHP”, in collaboration with 'Ecole des Mines' in Douai (France), ‘Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen Dep. PIH’ (Belgium) and COGEN Europe. On both sides of the Belgian-French border, the masters of these two engineering schools have interesting and complementary education and training possibilities on cogeneration. Douai is specialised in the thermodynamic aspects and has laboratories equipped with a 15 bar boiler, a backpressure turbine and absorption cooling. Kortrijk is well known for his experience in electricity aspects and has laboratories   equipped   with a gas-engine cogeneration, electrical generators and power quality equipment. This summer school is much more than a classic course on cogeneration. It is a combination of lectures and practical sessions (labs and computer sessions). For this reason the course is limited to 30 participants. COGEN Europe will again support this year's edition. All the sessions of the course will be given in English. For more information, please contact jorg.baeten@cogenvlaanderen.be. Please click here to see the programme.

Thenergo signs 47MWth waste-to-energy plant in Germany
Thenergo NV, a developer and operator of decentralised, clean energy projects announces it has signed a partnership agreement, through its German subsidiary tse AG, with Enka AG, the world’s leading manufacturer of premium viscose filament yarn, to develop a solid recovered fuel (SRF) CHP plant, at Enka’s production site in Elsterberg, Germany. The plant will generate close to 47 MWth and 12 MWe. Enka’s heat and power needs are currently supplied by existing oil and natural gas fired boilers. In an energy intensive industry, Enka’s energy strategy has become critical to its long term development. Through tse AG, Thenergo’s German subsidiary, a solution was found to develop an SRF fired plant as the principal future energy source and to use Enka’s existing fossil fuel fired units for peak load and emergency backup. This initiative will significantly reduce Enka’s energy costs, helping to ensure its future growth in the viscose manufacturing market. The CHP plant, project named EVE, will generate steam and electrical power from the combustion of solid recovered fuels (SRF), consisting of around 97,000 ton/y of recovered plastics sourced through long term contracts with multiple suppliers. Construction of the plant, planned for spring 2009, will be designed for CHP production, generating approximately 47 MWth and 12 MWe. The SRF fired plant will be based on a grate firing and high pressure water pipe boiler as well as a steam turbine.
The project, in which Thenergo will hold a 90% stake and Enka the remaining 10%, represents a total investment of € 65 million financed through equity (20%) and long term bank loans.

Newsletter of the NATURALHY project
COGEN Europe is part of the NATURALHY project. The main objective of NATURALHY is to prepare EU Member States for the hydrogen economy by identifying and removing the potential barriers regarding the introduction of hydrogen into society, using the extensive, existing natural gas system. The basic concept of the project is the smooth and short term introduction of hydrogen, at relatively low cost, by using the existing natural gas system to carry and distribute mixtures of natural gas and hydrogen. The main drivers for hydrogen are the improvement of energy security, the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions, according to the Kyoto protocol, and the improvement of air quality. However, the transition to the hydrogen-economy will be lengthy, costly and will require significant R&D. Please find here the seventh Newsletter of the NATURALHY project. In this newsletter you will find articles on:
-          Vapour cloud explosions involving natural gas/hydrogen mixtures
-          Predicting the probability of a pipeline

More project information and project deliverables can be found on www.naturalhy.net

ProEcoPolyNet project documents on small polygeneration technologies
COGEN Europe is part of the ProEcoPolyNet project (also known as PEP-Net). This is a network for promotion of three interlinked areas: eco-building technologies, small polygeneration and renewable heating and cooling technologies. The project has the following goals:
-          promote pre-commercial EU RTD pilot project results
-          help facilitate the market up-take of these technologies as they become available to the market
-          provide information and resources to help replicate results of pre-commercial and commercial projects
-          address market applications and implementation potential, to integrate the development of these technologies into policy assessments, for example the assessment of the potential for cogeneration, required by the CHP Directive (2004/08/EC), thus feeding further EU RTD.

One of the objectives is to facilitate market penetration of technical applications/solutions related to polygeneration technologies within the following focal areas: trigeneration, small-scale applications, micro CHP and innovative technologies, including biomass. Within this work the two brochures have been developed:

1. -          One describes the main results of the RTD screening (chapter 1), some application examples and experiences (chapter 2) and the implementation potential and perspectives of the selected polygeneration technologies in a number of EU Member States (chapter 3). Find it here.
2. -          A summary of the potential of the polygeneration technologies in Europe. Find it here.

More information on ProEcoPolyNet can be found on: www.proecopolynet.info

COGEN Europe Annual Conference "Creating a CHP roadmap for Europe"
COGEN Europe is pleased to announce its upcoming COGEN Europe Annual Conference "Creating a CHP roadmap for Europe" event, which will take place on May 22-23rd 2008, in Brussels, Belgium. Cogeneration, energy efficiency and CO2 abatement are all areas in which the EU has ambitions. The COGEN Europe 14th Annual Conference challenges policy makers and the industry to identify "What policy framework is needed and what market actors are involved in promoting cogeneration in Europe today?". As Member States begin to investigate and plan how to meet the Energy and Climate Package targets for 2020, it becomes increasingly clear that energy efficiency has a key role to play in delivering the final result. Key players from the stakeholder groups will gather to look for successful repeatable policy measures and business models which can harness the combined efforts of industry and Member States to deliver on the energy efficiency potential of cogeneration. The conference seeks to broaden the policy debate around cogeneration from the purely energy field into enterprise and environment. It will focus on the reality of the cogeneration market with large users, regulators, electricity companies and equipment manufacturers describing the state of the market today and their views on what is really needed to increase the penetration of cogeneration in Europe. Keynote speakers include:

• Nobuo Tanaka, Director of the IEA, who will talk on the impact of climate change on energy strategy around the globe (including results of IEA global study of cogeneration and district heating)
• Fiona Hall, Member of European Parliament and rapporteur on the Energy Efficiency Action Plan
• Alfonso Gonzalez-Finat, Principal Advisor DG TREN

For more information, please visit: http://www.cogen.org/events/Annual_Conference_2008.htm

Integration of trigeneration technologies in buildings
During last years the demand for electricity in southern Europe with an important contribution of the use for air-conditioning. This fact has expanded the market potential for small-scale trigeneration. Trigeneration technology is able to supply all the energy services required in a building with a single integrated unit producing electricity and recovering the waste energy to produce heating, domestic hot water and cooling using different thermally-activated HVAC technologies. A brief paper, produced by URV, describes the concept of trigeneration systems, studies the integration of this equipment in buildings and analyses the present situation and new applications of this technology for small scale applications. The paper can be found here.

Proceedings of the European Seminar on Trigeneration
All presentations from this trigeneration seminar, organised by COGEN Europe and FAST COGEN on Friday 22 February in Milan, can be found here.

Sixth T@W Newsletter
COGEN Europe participates in the T@W project (Sustainable Energy Technology at Work on the European Emissions Trading Market). The project strives at uniformed effort on addressing the EU interests in the carbon markets, comprising EU policy goals as well as business opportunities. Please find here the sixth T@W newsletter, with upcoming events in Asia and Denmark. More information can be found on www.setatwork.eu or contact info@setatwork.eu

Proceedings of the COGEN Europe event at the EUSEW 2008
All presentations from the COGEN Europe seminar "How to achieve the Energy Saving Potentials of cogeneration in Europe?" (30 January 2008) are now on our website. Please click here to find the presentations.

The first International Conference and Workshop on Micro CHP Technologies and Applications “Micro-Cogen 2008” will be held in Ottawa, Canada from 29 April – 1 May 2008.
It is a forum for presenting the latest research, development and demonstration results in a broad range of small cogeneration technologies including technical and policy analyses, deployment strategies, comparative analysis, and studies on sustainability and societal and environmental impacts.
The workshop will bring together researchers, manufacturers, electric and gas utilities, policy makers, regulators, and builders to discuss the current state of micro CHP technologies, future development trends, barriers and opportunities for collaboration for speedy deployment. International experts will share their vision, extensive experience and knowledge gained through modelling, lab and field trials and will discuss the applications of a variety of micro CHP technologies in the residential/ commercial energy sector world wide.
More information can be found here: http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/es/etb/cetc/cetc01/htmldocs/Events/cogen_2008/index_e.htm
To contact the conference organisers, please send an email to microgen2008@nrcan.gc.ca

COGEN Europe micro CHP Workshop
In advance of the Commission’s imminent work on minimum efficiency requirements for micro CHP, COGEN Europe will hold a Workshop on micro CHP in Brussels on 12 February to be addressed by European Commission specialists. The European Commission’s Communication “Action Plan for Energy Efficiency: Realising the potential” (2006) contains several measures on improving energy transformation and eight of these are specifically directed at cogeneration. These measures include “seek to adopt a European norm and a minimum efficiency requirement for micro CHP” (2007-2009). The intervention of such a policy instrument at the current stage of market development in micro CHP will impact the industry.
The European Commission will present the current EU policy towards micro CHP and the upcoming initiatives. An update of the situation in four Member States (United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany) will be given. Please find here the agenda and registration form.

European Seminar on Trigeneration
COGEN Europe organises, with its Italian member organisation, the first European Seminar on Trigeneration on Friday 22 February in Milan. Please find the agenda and registration form here. Participation to the event is free of charge. The European Seminar on Trigeneration takes place in the FAST Congress centre. The address is Piazzale R. Morandi 2 (FAST bld.), 20121 Milan, Italy. For more information, contact ivana.marin@fast.mi.it

Mondragon and Meridian Energy to manufacture micro CHP systems
A joint venture was formed by Mondragon and Meridian Energy to mass manufacture the WhisperGen micro CHP system in Spain for distribution in Europe. The joint venture is currently establishing a manufacturing facility in Spain and plans to have the product available for sale on the continental European market in time for the 2008/09 winter heating season. The gas-fired WhisperGen micro CHP system is for home domestic use, acting as an energy efficient boiler heating system that also generates electricity to supplement the grid supply. It was developed in New Zealand by Meridian Energy subsidiary Whisper Tech. The companies said that the WhisperGen micro CHP system lowers energy costs, lessens dependence upon mass energy production and reduces carbon dioxide emissions overall.

Coca-Cola announces plans to reduce CO2 emissions by installing cogeneration
Coca-Cola Hellenic announced plans to reduce annual CO2 emissions by more than 20% across all of its production facilities through the development of 15 cogeneration plants in its bottling facilities. The plants will deliver significant cuts in CO2 emissions across 12 countries of operation, including eight European Union Member States. The 15 cogeneration plants will be constructed by energy company ContourGlobal and are foreseen to be in operation by the end of 2009. Find the press release here.

COGEN Europe seminar as part of the EUSEW
The European Commission, the International Energy Agency and COGEN Europe are jointly hosting this ground breaking seminar. This is a high level event where for the first time the opportunities of cogeneration to contribute to Europe’s energy efficiency goals will be debated and explored. The seminar brings together Andris Piebalgs, Energy Commissioner, Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the IEA and Claude Turmes, Member of the European Parliament, along with the practical experience of professionals from  the city of London, energy intensive industries and EU Member States. An open session for debate follows the formal presentations, and will summarise recommendations for EU energy policy.The seminar deals with the major challenge faced by Europe in making progress on energy efficiency. The EU has the potential of saving over 100 M tonnes of CO2 annually through deployment of cogeneration energy efficiency technology. Of all of Europe’s tools for improving energy efficiency and addressing climate change, cogeneration has the potential to be one of the lowest risk and most far-reaching in terms of near term impact. Cogeneration is already delivering significant energy security, cost savings and climate benefits by currently providing over 10% of Europe’s electricity. However, most experts believe it has much more to offer. This seminar will hear from those already taking efficiency action forward on how to mobilise this effective resource now.
More information and registration on: http://www.eusew.eu/page.cfm?page=events&selEvent=83

COGEN Europe publications on cogeneration
Please find an overview of the latest two COGEN Europe publications:

Financial and Regulatory Support for Cogeneration in EU (2007)

The development of cogeneration has been very uneven over the years and has been dominated throughout the last decades by national circumstances. For any market actor keen to develop its activities beyond its national borders, this 49-page report will provide a concise, up-to-date overview of the type of support an installation is likely to receive in each EU Member State.
This report is 49 pages long and is available for 299 Euro.

Cogeneration in CEEC (2007)

This COGEN Europe study gives an overview of cogeneration markets in the Central and Eastern Europe countries (CEEC): the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Croatia. The objective of the study is to give a clear and concise snapshot of the market situation for cogeneration in these countries, covering the important non-technical issues in the cogeneration business. Therefore for each country the statistics for existing cogeneration is presented, followed by financial and regulatory support, market activities and potential for cogeneration. The chapters covering the Czech Republic, Hungary in Poland are on average long 6 pages, while the chapters covering the other countries are long 2 to 3 pages.
The whole report is long 49 pages and is available for 299 Euro.

In addition, the following reports are available:
Overview of CHP in Europe (2005)

This new report gives a brief overview of CHP in the EU Member States as well as Croatia, Norway, Serbia-Montenegro, Switzerland and Turkey. The objective of this study report is to give a clear and concise snapshot of the situation for CHP in European countries, thereby reflecting the very diverse national current state and future outlooks for CHP.
The report is available for 80 Euro.

The European Cogeneration Review

In this series of COGEN Europe country reports, the following reports are available: Turkey (July 2005), Belgium (July 2005), Denmark (January 2005), United Kingdom (July 2004), France (June 2004), Greece (September 2003), Ireland (February 2003) and Spain (January 2003).
The price per report is 80 Euro.

In case you want to place an order, please contact Ms Tanya Carré at info@cogeneurope.eu

Third HYPER Newsletter

Please find here the latest HYPER Newsletter. The objective of this project (Installation Permitting Guidance for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Stationary Applications) is to produce an Installation Permitting Guidance (IPG) for small stationary hydrogen and fuel cell systems for use in a range of environments. The IPG will provide a means to fast track approval of safety and procedural issues for such systems, by developing an agreed installation permitting process for developers, design engineers, manufacturers, installers and authorities having jurisdiction. It will address the major safety and procedural issues relating to the installation of systems.  The systems aimed at provide electrical power up to 10 kWel, which will mean systems with power outputs of the order of 50 kW (combined heat + electrical) suitable for small back up power supplies and residential and small industrial CHPs (single family CHP, multi family CHP, CHP back-up for offices, CHP normal power service for offices). More information can be found on: http://www.hyperproject.eu

How to achieve the Energy Saving Potentials of cogeneration in Europe?
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 COGEN Europe organises in cooperation with the European Commission and the International Energy Agency a seminar on “How to achieve the Energy Saving Potentials of cogeneration in Europe?”. The event will be addressed by Mr Andris Piebalgs, the European Commissioner for Energy, and Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency. In addition there will be contributions from the energy intensive industries and from the city of London. The seminar takes place in Brussels and is part of the EU Sustainable Energy Week 2008 (EUSEW2008). More information can be found on: http://www.eusew.eu/

Final COGEN Challenge Newsletter
Please find here the latest newsletter of the COGEN Challenge project. It features an interview with Dr Riddoch, the Managing Director of COGEN Europe.

COGEN Challenge Directories on developers and manufacturers
The existing Directories on small-scale cogeneration developers and manufacturers have been updated. These informative documents contain contact data on the main developers and manufacturers in Europe and therefore they represent informative tools for those who want to either develop their own cogeneration unit and those seeking for cogeneration equipment. Please find the links to the European Directory on small-scale developers and the European Directory on small-scale manufacturers.

Annual Conference of CHPA
On 15 November the Annual Conference of the CHPA, our National Member in the UK, will take place. Please find more news and the conference programme. Further details of the Conference can be obtained from www.chpa.co.uk or by calling +44 020 7828 4077.

MEPs call on governments to include cogeneration in their national energy efficiency plans
A report by UK Liberal MEP Fiona Hall warned the Commission and EU Member States of failing to realise their own commitments to reduce energy consumption. The own-initiative, non-binding report got the backing of the Parliament’s Committee on Industry and Trade and is scheduled for final adoption by the committee on November 29th.
The report urges Member States to include plans in their National Energy Efficiency Action Plans to increase high-efficiency co-generation, to move to the holistic planning of electricity, heating and cooling supply and to remove administrative barriers to small-scale and micro co-generation: a clear indication that cogeneration is getting more visibility in the European Parliament.
For access to the full report,“An Action plan for energy efficiency: realising the potential”, click here

Poland considers white certificates and long term agreements
The Polish Ministry of Economy is preparing new legislation on energy efficiency. In preparation for the new act, a stakeholder consultation recently began, discussing amongst other things white certificates and long term agreements.