SETatWork: Sustainable Energy Technology at Work
Introduction to activities during 2008-2010
July 2008

In July 2008, we finalised contract negotiations with the European Commission on a project to carry on, complement and expand the promotional efforts and activities of T@W under the heading of ‘Sustainable Energy Technology at Work’ with the acronym ‘SETatWork’.

The new project will take a similar approach on bringing together actors in the carbon market but will, in contrast to T@W, have an emphasis on energy efficiency, recognising energy efficiency as a main factor in achieving climate protection goals.

SETatWork commences on 1 September 2008 with a duration of two years.

In due course this website will be updated to suit the needs and activities of the new project. In the meantime, we include a short summary below:

The global society is faced with a huge challenge in order to meet the threat given by global warming. The project SETatWork - Sustainable Energy Technologies at Work aims to meet this challenge through the collaboration and partnerships between organisations in EU, Asia and South America, supported by the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).

The technology focus of SETatWork will be on energy efficiency and polygeneration in the industry sector, building on the experience obtained under the T@W project. While the continuity is ensured by the involvement of many of the same partners, the industry dimension of the project has been strengthened by the direct participation of industry associations.

The core project activities will be:

• Undertaking training of selected European ETS industry sectors based on prior need assessment. The training is to help the industries on handling the complex of energy and CO₂ management and will be performed in Portugal, Bulgaria, Slovakia / Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, Denmark and Sweden - aiming for a total of 14 workshops.
• An integrated part of the performed training will be to identify opportunities for specific action in the industries for CO₂ reduction measures. This is to be achieved by local partners (facilitators) in coordination with relevant industry organisations.
• Another key project task will consist in identifying Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects in markets in China, India, South East Asia (focus on Thailand and Malaysia) and Latin America (focus on Brazil and 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.
• With regard to both European industry and the CDM markets, the efforts will be 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 with project owners and emission rights buyers (in Asia and Latin America) with European technology and service providers.
• In parallel, the project team will observe the energy efficiency and carbon market development and disseminate the findings as inspiration for market actors and carbon market regulators.
• The project results will be disseminated via the website and an E-newsletter for distribution via an extensive mailing list. Among the planned dissemination highlights will be the organization of side event(s) with a technology focus in connection with the UNFCCC climate conferences in Poznan 2008 (COP 14) and Copenhagen 2009 (COP 15), encompassing promotion of technology transfer and partner-matching.

The project partners are: