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12 European associations call on the Commission and Member States to stay true to the spirit of the EU ETS Directive and not unduly penalise high efficient combined heat and power (also known as CHP or cogeneration) and district heating. COGEN Europe, CEFIC, CEPI, CIAA, Euroheat&Power, EFIEES, EUVEPRO, Euromalt, Ebio, AAF, [...]
COGEN Europe and Berlin Energy Agency organise on 25 March a seminar at the EU Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) on “Promoting innovative cogeneration in cities”. This half-day seminar is an official event of the EUSEW, the reference European event for energy efficiency and renewable energy, which focuses this year on Europe’s cities and their efforts [...]
Commission directions for energy efficiency and renewable policies Updated 23-03-2010The European Commission will consider revising legislation on energy services and cogeneration to give fresh impetus to the energy efficiency agenda, EU energy commissioner Günther Oettinger said on Tuesday. The Commissioner was very non committal but did confirm what COGEN Europe already knew that both Directives would be reviewed next year. Here is the full [...]
A consortium of Dutch companies has created a living smart grid demonstration community, including interconnected micro-CHP units, that goes live today. Consultancy KEMA has partnered with Dutch energy research centre ECN, software company Humiq and utility Essent to create the ‘PowerMatching City’, the first microgrid project in Europe to integrate a full-scale, operational “smart” residential [...]
COGEN Europe and Berlin Energy Agency have teamed up to organise a joint seminar during the EU Sustainable Energy Week 2010 on “Promoting innovative cogeneration in cities”. Beyond Berlin, the experience of several other pilot cities and regions will be presented during a seminar (e.g. Paris, Frankfurt and Riga). Stakeholders such as European Commission, Energie-Cités [...]
Leading scientists propose smarter low carbon future Updated 02-03-2010A report launched today highlights critical challenges in the current ‘all-electric’ approach to decarbonisation of the UK energy system as this would increase our dependence on the electricity system to unprecedented levels. A system that makes greater use of cogeneration and district heating can however mitigate many of the more demanding aspects of the ‘all-electric’ [...]
COGEN Europe is the coordinator of the CODE project. This project monitors the progress of the implementation Cogeneration Directive and reporting requirements by the 27 EU Member States. More information can be found on www.code-project.eu
The CODE project team has finalised the ‘European summary report’ giving the first analysis of Members States’ reporting under the Cogeneration [...]
Dalkia has been selected for seven projects as part of the French government’s third call for tenders for cogeneration plants fired by biomass. The total cumulative electricity capacity will be close to 60 MW. The projects will enable more than 570,000 metric tons of biomass to be recovered annually, mainly in the form of forest [...]
Italian hospitals turn to cogeneration to reduce CO2 emissions Updated 21-12-2009As the EU continues to encourage industries to expand their use of cogeneration to improve local energy efficiency and air quality, a growing number of hospitals in Italy are doing their part by installing new, onsite cogeneration plants to help reduce their respective carbon footprints. Four hospitals in four Italian cities recently signed contracts to [...]
COGEN Europe is partner in the Smart-A project. This EU co-funded project assesses the overall potential for load-shifting by domestic appliances and compares this with requirements from sustainable energy generation both on the local as well as in larger electricity systems. The Smart-A project is finished and all the results can now be found on [...]