Contact:
Project Co-ordinator:
Achim Neuhäuser
Berlin Energy Agency
Tel: +49 30 29 33 30 - 601 begin_of_the_skyend_of_the_skype_highlighting
Fax: +49 (0) 30 29 33 30 – 99
Email: neuhaeuser@berliner-e-agentur.de

Description:

The driving forces seen behind the project “CHP goes Green” are on the one hand the limited energy resources in general, as well as the limitation of biomass resources, and on the other hand the need to increase the use of renewable energy resources in the conventional heat supply as well as to increase the share of heat supplied by cogeneration. The advantage of the use of biomass in cogeneration is strategically seen self-evident, as it allows highest efficiency combined with an increase of renewables’ share. But until now CHP fed with renewable energy sources (RES) is not yet widely spread and implemented. The project therefore generally aims at:

• Increasing the share of CHP within use of RES
• Increasing the share of RES within CHP

Over the last years both CHP and RES have increased their market shares: different model cities for the use of CHP have already successfully promoted CHP for a sustainable energy supply, especially in urban areas – e.g. Berlin with the awarded campaign “CHP model city”. Other regions have already promoted the use of biomass, especially in more rural areas. Recent innovations of technical hardware enable the combination of RES and CHP. This combination is seen as a key approach to reach the ambitious EU climate protection targets (20-20-20). Pushing “Green CHP” and the respective technical solutions into the markets should overcome the actual separate – and sometimes even competitive – development of CHP and RES markets. To promote and install the greenest technologies available is the target for the selected model cities involved in the proposed action: Berlin, Frankfurt/Main, Riga, Grenoble, Paris, Graz, Prague and Hannover. The project aims at an increased use of RES in cogeneration, including centralised district heating as well as in decentralised cogeneration units and at the installation of RES-based CHP applications in buildings, through:

• Development of model cities/regions for the use of RES in CHP through regional promotion, training and information activities by the project partners
• Support of further regions in Europe with the good practices generated by transferring know-how and exchanging practical experiences

The project strategies for the promotion campaign within the model cities are based on a brief comparative analysis of regulatory framework, market conditions and policies of the key-stakeholders with regard to CHP and facilitating RES with the target to identify the most favourable framework conditions for the integration of CHP and use of RES. This will be used to deduce recommendations for other cities/regions and to optimise them in the respective cities. The regional promotion campaigns will promote good practice projects, bundle high level information on a website and motivate for further implementation of RES-CHP. Multipliers on a technical level will be addressed through specifically developed and carried out training seminars and feasibility checks and, thus, will initiate further good practice projects. Promotion activities address different stakeholders as suppliers, decision makers and multipliers in an appropriate way. In a further step this knowledge will be transferred to further European cities/regions making the information and facts available, address interested parties through international workshops and the possibility of one-to-one-coachings through experts from the model cities/regions.

Partners:

COGEN Europe

Berlin Energy Agency, Germany – www.berliner-e-agentur.de

City of Frankfurt, Germany – www.energiereferat.stadt-frankfurt.de

Ekodoma, Latvia – www.ekodoma.lv/index.php?lang=en

Rhônealpénergie (RAEE), France – www.raee.org/

Arene Ile-de-France – www.areneidf.org/fr/Home-315.html

Grazer Energieagentur, Austria – www.grazer-ea.at/cms/

Energy Efficiency Center (SEVEn), Czech Republic – www.svn.cz/en

Climate Protection Agency Hannover, Germany

Description:

CODE is an EU wide independent assessment of the progress of the CHP Directive. The project partners and the COGEN Europe members will encourage the rapid and effective implementation of the Directive and independently review the Member States’ progress and the success of implementation. CODE will highlight and publicise clear best practise where it occurs and draw attention to areas of poor performance or practical difficulties in implementation. The project aims:

- To support the implementation of the Directive

- To enhance local/regional capacity for the successful development of cogeneration projects by developing clear case study data on successful cogeneration projects under the new Directive framework on a regional basis

- To raise awareness and provide information through a high profile European-wide information, know-how transfer among cogeneration associations, suppliers, local and regional energy agencies and other networks

- Accelerate the market penetration of cogeneration technologies through producing a European Cogeneration Roadmap, based on national potentials studies

- Showcasing good practice and potential growth in key market sectors

COGEN Europe will work with its consortium partners, operating in a regional structure, and its national member organisations to review and comment the Member States reports from the industry perspective on a regional basis. Four regional groups will be established where members organisations will co-operate in gathering and analysing the responses of the 27 governments to the Cogeneration Directive. A central database will be created with a summary of each Member State’s responses under the reporting action measures required under the Directive, along with the response itself. At the regional level case studies of best practise projects in the geography will be collected. Regional groups will report on the successful and struggling initiatives and the legislation and support schemes around the directive.

The main outputs will be:

- Country-specific info on the directive implementation containing a critical assessment of the progress made by each country towards its stated national potential goals.

- A set of regional focus groups experienced in the operation and implementation of the Directive in their region and able to assist manufacturers and potential end users in its application.

- A Handbook of Case Studies representative of the most successful policies and approaches by region.

- Analysis of barriers and success factors for promoting the development of cogeneration through the Directive

- Access for interested parties to a central database of information plus a network of local specialists

A high efficiency Cogeneration Roadmap for Europe to 2020

Partners:

COGEN Europe

HACHP – Hellenic Association for the Cogeneration of Heat and Power – (Greece) www.hachp.gr

CHPA – Combined Heat and Power Association – (United Kingdom) www.chpa.co.uk

JSI – Jozef Stefan Institute – (Slovenia) www.ijs.si

FAST – Federazione delle Associazioni Scientifiche e Techniche – (Italy) www.fast.mi.it