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Renewable Heating and Cooling: from RD&D to Deployment
 
Location and date(s) of workshop:
IEA, Paris: 5 April 2006
   
Organiser(s): IEA's Working Party on Renewable Energy Technologies and IEA Implementing Agreement Collaborative Programmes
   
   

Background:

Organised jointly by the IEA's Working Party on Renewable Energy Technologies and IEA Implementing Agreement collaborative programmes, this event will focus on current technologies, markets and successful policies for renewable heating and cooling. It will identify pathways for accelerating technology development and deployment. A Seminar Discussion Brief will be made available before the Seminar. Invitations to this seminar can be requested from Nobuyuki Hara at IEA.

 
Links to relevant documents:
 Programme

 
Proceedings: Welcome by the IEA, Claude Mandil, IEA Executive Director

Introduction by the Seminar Chairman, Roberto Vigotti, Chairman, Renewable Energy Working Party

Objectives of the Seminar -- Christophe Jurzack, Vice-Chair of REWP, France (Presentation 1)


SESSION 1:  TECHNOLOGY STATUS, COST, COMPETITIVENESS, RD&D, NORMS & STANDARDS

Moderator:  Gilles Mercier, Canada
Rapporteur:  Morgan Bazilian, Ireland

Introduction:
The session discussed the current technology status of relevant renewable energy technologies in heat production. It focused on economically-recoverable resource potential, current and future costs, technology RD&D challenges, norms and standards.

Context 1:  Overview of markets for renewable heat -- Michel Francoeur, IEA Energy Statistics (Presentation 2)

Panellists:

1.  Can we count on biomass?  Kyriakos Maniatis, Chair Bioenergy IA, European Commission (Presentation 3)

2.  Kilowatts or megawatts?  Michael Rantil, Chair Solar Heating and Cooling IA, Sweden (Presentation 4)

3.  Heat from the earth?  Ladislaus Rybach, Vice Chair Geothermal IA, Switzerland (Presentation 5)




SESSION 2: POLICY STATUS, FUTURE TRENDS AND IMPLICATIONS

Moderator:   Norbert Gorissen, Vice-Chair REWP, Germany
Rapporteur:   Ralph Sims, REWP delegate, New Zealand

Introduction:
The session provided policy status, future trends and implications for renewable heat technologies. It explored a vision of renewable heat market and also discussed policy and regulatory framework aspects of the paradigm shift which would be required to meet national and international objectives.

Context 2: Scenarios for renewable heating & cooling based on IEA World Energy Outlook -- Richard Schimpf, Economic Analysis Division, IEA
(Presentation 6)

Panellists:

1.  What action should the European Union undertake to promote renewable heating and cooling?   Samuele Furfari, European Comission (Presentation 7)

2.  Is import dependency a driver?   Kaoru Yamaguchi, Institute for Energy Economics, Japan (Presentation 8)

3.  White certificates – a working solution?   Christophe Jurczak, Vice-Chair REWP, France (Presentation 9 + French Scheme)

4. How to create a good regulation?   Michael Nast, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany (Presentation 10)

5. Renewable heating and cooling – a buisiness or a headache?   Birger Lauersen, EuroHeat & Power (Presentation 11)

 

CONCLUSION

Summary