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16/07/09 COGEN Europe Position Paper on EEAP consultationCOGEN Europe believes that the European Union now has the opportunity to lay the foundations for a sustainable energy system. The cleanest and most economic option always is to save energy whenever possible. With the Green Paper on Energy Efficiency [COM(2005) 265], the European Commission has provided a [...]
The directive “on the promotion of cogeneration based on a useful heat demand in the internal energy market” (2004/8/EC) represents the single most important piece of European legislation for the cogeneration sector. The directive will be implemented by February 2006 and aims at “creating a framework for promotion and development of high efficiency cogeneration”. COGEN [...]
Covering more than 12,000 installations, the EU ETS is the by far largest emissions trading scheme in the world. The aim is to give reductions of CO2-emissions a value and extra emissions a cost. COGEN Europe has given its recommendations throughout the negotiation process of this piece of European environmental legislation. The application of this [...]
Improved energy efficiency has a fundamental role to play in the European Union’s security of supply. Cogeneration has a major contribution to make to energy efficiency. The challenges with cogeneration as with energy efficiency as a whole do not lie with a lack of technology -this is already available- the problems lie squarely in the [...]
The promotion of renewable energy belongs to the key objectives of European energy policy. The European Institutions should put a special emphasis on the uptake of biomass, which is the renewables sector with the highest growth potential. Cogeneration units today operate with a wide range of fuels, including biogas, forestry residues, wood pellets and bio-diesel. [...]
As a decentralised power production technique, cogeneration helps limiting the investments for electricity network reinforcements. It thus represents a cornerstone of an energy system less costly for the European society as a whole. Another crucial issue related to this subject is the conditions of grid access for cogeneration plant operators. COGEN Europe urges the European [...]