Optimization of Support Schemes for Renewable Energy Sources for Electricity Generation, Heating and Cooling

Short description

Partners:

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), GmbH, Germany
Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany
Institute for Studies and Power Engineering, România
Energy Efficiency Agency, Bulgaria
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, Estonia
Energy Institute Hrvoje Pozar, Croatia
Ministry of the Environment, Latvia
Institute for the Diversification and Saving of Energy (IDAE), Spain
Slovak Innovation and Energy Agency, Slovakia
European Renewable Energy Council
Austrian Energy Agency, Austria
Climate Alliance

Objectives:

Reducing administrative barriers for the use of RES in the new member states and candidate countries
Involving the new member states and candidate countries in the process of the development of support schemes for RES-H in the EU
Increase awareness of regional actors for the benefits of RES-E and RES-H

Benefits:

Political awareness of administrative barriers and how to reduce them
Political awareness on options to support RES-H
Exchange of best-practices to reduce administrative barriers with focus on the needs of the new member states and candidate countries
Raising awareness among regional stakeholdersof benefits of RES

The SUPPORT_ERS project contributes to the reduction of administrative barriers for the use of RES in the new EU member states and candidate countries, shows political decision makers in the new EU member states and candidate countries options to support RES-H, and increases the awareness of regional stakeholders for the benefits of RES.

SUPPORT_ERS will be implemented from November 2007 to January 2010. The consortium consists of 12 partners. Ministries and national energy agencies with a direct link to RES policy processes form the core of the consortium. A network of municipalities and a European interest group are involved in order to ensure the link to the regional level and to the European RES industry. SUPPORT_ERS helps to optimize support mechanisms to speed up RES market development and to intensify the cooperation among political decision makers and policy consultants in energy agencies to meet the ambitious RES targets of 2020.
Expected and/or achieved results:

Detailed information on administrative barriers for RES in the new member states and candidate countries in the consortium
Checklist for institutions on how to reduce administrative barriers for RES including best-practices
Recommendations to policy makers on options to support RES-H
Regional RES training modules (including planning aspects) and 7 regional seminars in the new member states and candidate countries

Services offered

Consultancy

Country and location

Client

Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Inovation (EACI)

Start / Completion date

2007-2010

ISPE