Facilitation Workshop under the SETatWork Project
Co-funded by the EU under the 7th Framework Programme

Sino-EU Workshops on Sustainable Energy Technology

19 April 2010, Guangzhou, China and 21 April 2010, Hangzhou, China

Two SETatWork Facilitation Workshops were held in China in April 2010, in Guangzhou on 19 April 2010 and in Hangzhou on 21 April 2010. The events were timed to follow the Carbon Trade China 2010: Emitting China's CDM Potential and Enhancing East-West Carbon Trade that was held in Beijing, 15-16 April 2010 (www.chinacarbontrade.com.cn) allowing delegates to link their participation in these events.

For further information about the event in Guangzhou, please contact:

Mr. Luo Zhigang
Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conservation (GIEC)
No 2, Nengyuan Road, Wushan Tianhe District,
Guangzhou,China
Tel: +86 20 87057771; email: Luozg@ms.giec.ac.cn

For further information about the event in Hangzhou, please contact:

Ms. Huang Dongfeng
Zhejiang Energy Research Institute (ZERI)
218 Wen’er Road, Hangzhou 310012, China
Tel: +86-571-88840792; email: huangdf@zeri.org.cn

Also see:

• SETatWork Facilitation Workshop, Thailand - 18-19 February 2010
• SETatWork Facilitation Workshop, India - 15-16 March 2010

The global society is faced with a huge challenge in order to meet the threat given by global warming. SETatWork - Sustainable Energy Technologies at Work aims to meet this challenge through the collaboration and partnerships between organisations in EU, Asia and South America.

A key project task consists in identifying Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects in markets in China, India, South East Asia (focus on Thailand), Africa and Latin America (focus on Chile) in combination with the transfer of European technology and know-how. Part of this activity will be to promote concepts like CDM programmatic approaches that imply good perspectives for improving the CDM, especially in the field of energy efficiency.

These efforts are accompanied by matchmaking activities in order to facilitate the realisation of the identified opportunities, e.g. to match stakeholders involved in energy efficiency and savings in European industry sectors, as well as European technology and service providers, with project owners and other stakeholders in the CDM countries.

The main objective of these events is to create a platform for close interaction between:

1. CDM project developers in China,
2. sellers and buyers of carbon credits,
3. Sustainable Energy Technology providers and
4. Industries in EU-ETS

by highlighting the technologies needed and the technologies available in developed countries to promote energy efficiency in China by facilitating Business to Business (B2B) meetings.

The workshop in Hangzhouwill address a range of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies with focus on their application in the Zhejiang Province and the prospects of technology transfer. Also it will look into the developments of the carbon market in the region and how cooperation between local and EU stakeholders could be established.

Click here for further information about the aims and objectives of SETatWork.

In April 21 of 2010, “Sino-EU workshop on sustainable energy technology” had been successfully held in Hangzhou of China, organized by Zhejiang Energy Research Institute, as one of matchmaking events in China within activities of EU funded project “SET@Work”, with the view of promoting sustainable energy technology outside Europe and bringing European suppliers in a favorable position for this development with focus on rapidly developing CDM markets in China.

Taken consideration into China 2020 CO₂ emission reduction target declared in November of 2009, this workshop targeted at topics of “low carbon development strategy”, “innovative energy saving technologies” and “technology matchmaking and carbon trade” etc., and consisted of two technical sessions of “Low Carbon Economy Development” and “Energy Efficiency Technology and Carbon Trade. 12 speakers gave outstanding presentations, and more than 50 attendant presented at this workshop, they mainly came from research institution, universities and consulting agencies as well as industrial association etc.

In Session I, experts showed their ideas on the topic of “how to develop low carbon economy in China”, they pointed out that energy issue is primary to the climate change, sustainable energy technology is the solution to adapt climate change, together with innovative mechanisms such as CDM and other carbon trade schemes. In China, energy efficiency and renewable energy are the strategic paths to reduce GHG emission, particular in three sectors of industry, building and transportation. Prof. Lin Yi from Zhejiang Architecture Science Academy stressed the importance of optimized design, improved envelope insulation and widespread application of renewable energy in energy efficient buildings. Ms Luo Zhigang from Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conservation introduced the research progress on low carbon economy development roadmap in Guangzhou of China, which provided a good reference for other provinces. And EU innovative energy technology and RTD results have been illustrated by the project partners, which let the attendants learn about EU RTD results on sustainable energy technology, and potentials of innovative sustainable energy technology in Chinese market, as well as cooperative focal points on low carbon energy technology between China and EU.

In Session II, the topic had insight into specific energy efficiency technologies and carbon trade. Mr. Xu Haolong, senior engineer of Zhejiang provincial Environment Science Academy, presented “Sewage treatment for energy use and pollution prevention”, highlighted the advantages of anaerobic fermentation on sewage treatment, and point out needs on such innovative technology transfer because of existing gap between China and the developed countries. Prof. Wang Qikun, based on his rich practice experience, introduced the ground source heat pump technology (GSHP) in terms of performance and applicability, and key aspects of successful application of GSHPs such as systematic design concept and integration of innovative technologies. Particularly, Swedish cooperative strength was showed through introduction of Swedish clean energy technologies, together with the list of Swedish clean energy technology providers. And, CDM progress in China and potentials for energy efficiency technology were respectively illustrated by CDM experts.

During the workshop, the questionnaire on matchmaking was completed by distributing matchmaking forms to the attendants. According to feedback, Chinese attendants showed their cooperative intents on following technologies:

• Grid connection of PV system, such as smart control and dispatch, reliable operation and fault positioning, conversion etc.,
• Solar thermal power system
• Integration of solar thermal use with heat pump
• Energy storage materials and products,
• Innovative high efficiency heat pump
• Building energy management system
• Low temperature waste heat recovery for power generation
• Energy policy study
• others

Details of these and other non-confidential partner-matching requests can be found by searching the SETatWork Database (note: link opens in a separate window).

The proposed cooperation manner included R&D and dissemination, technology transfer, joint venture, and purchasing technologies etc.

At the end, the organizer and experts called for an interactive platform to promote innovative technology transfer and carbon trade and provide financing and consulting services to be established.