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Here follows the fifth issue of the SETatWork Newsletter.

SETatWork is a project supported by EU's 7th Framework Programme (FP7). It assists European industries with meeting the challenge of climate change and bridging contacts to market actors and researchers outside Europe.

The technology focus is to promote energy efficiency and savings as well as polygeneration in the carbon markets.

This issue of the newsletter focuses on reporting from recent Facilitation Workshops within the SETatWork cooperation, as well as providing information on upcoming matchmaking events. In addition, it provides some analytic aspects from the performed activities.

Since the last newsletter, SETatWork has continued adding details of technology and service providers to the Database, as well as details of third-party programmes, projects and reports related to the SETatWork objectives. In addition, SETatWork has published a further 14 Good Practice case studies (which are in the process of being incorporated into the database).

Use of the SETatWork Database continues to grow steadily, with more than 25,000 visitors to the website so far this year, viewing more than 85,000 pages. This means that the Database is increasingly becoming a valuable place for Sustainable Energy Technology and Service Providers to the Carbon Markets to promote their activities.

If you would like to add details of your company to the SETatWork Database, you can register online at:

http://www.setatwork.eu/database/register.htm

The SETatWork Management Team

For further information about SETatWork or any of the issue raised on this website please contact: info@setatwork.eu

Reproduction of this publication is authorised provided the source is acknowledged.

SETatWork is supported by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) under contract TREN/FP7EN/219009-"SETatWork". This publication reflects the authors' views. Although the authors' best efforts have been made to ensure that the information contained herein is accurate, neither the European Commission, the SETatWork Project Members nor the author are liable for any use that may be made of the info rmation contained herein.

SETatWork offers an opportunity for joining market actors in the carbon market sector. As part of this, a number of faciliation workshops are taking place during 2010 in Asia, Africa and South America where European stakeholders will be invited to meet local stakeholders.

The key objective is to foster cooperation in the field of CDM projects by creating contact between local CDM project developers & related business and EU stakeholders, such as buyers of CO₂ credits and technology suppliers. This will be supplemented with other commercial and RTD activities.

The reports from the first two Facilitation Workshops, which took place in Bangkok, Thailand in February and in New Delhi, India in March 2010, can be found below. As well as forthcoming workshops in Guangzhou and Hangzhou, China in April 2010.

The SETatWork website also acts as a platform where companies can register their details for free, to promote their organization and projects or find partners for future collaboration within key industries. These details will be entered into the database maintained by the consortium, which contains a range of companies including technology provides, project developers, industry contacts, etc.

The SETatWork facilitation workshop in Bangkok took place as a side event of "Thailand Energy Saving 2010" Exhibition and Conference at the Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre (BITEC) and was co-organized by the Project partner in Thailand - the Centre for Energy Environment Resources Development (CEERD) and the Thai DNA - the Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organization (TGO).

The main objectives of the facilitation workshop were:

1. to present best available technologies for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and the opportunities for CERs sales to European entities;
2. to present to project owners how the CDM cycle can help finance projects and technologies; and
3. to facilitate business meetings at the project booth open to exhibition visitors in the main hall.

The workshop welcomed around 70 participants on the first day which was devoted to Energy Efficiency, and 40 participants for the second day on Renewable Energy. Following an opening address from the First Secretary of the Delegation of the European Union to Thailand, the Executive Director of TGO and the Director General of DEDE (Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency, Ministry of Energy) were among the distinguished speakers to deliver their presentations.

The presentations from this event are available at: www.setatwork.eu/events/1002thailand.htm

Presentations which should be highlighted as providing special insights on Energy Efficiency and CDM developments in Thailand are:

• Thermal Energy Storage for Air Conditioning & Industrial Refrigeration - a promising technology (Cristopia) for efficient cooling and demand side management (DSM) by reducing peak power demand Presentation (6128 Kb PDF)
• Hydrocarbon Refrigerants - which are environment friendly, can easily retrofit existing systems and bring appreciable energy savings (HyChill) Presentation (721 Kb PDF)
• Challenges and Opportunities for CDM in Thailand - a clear overview by Danish Energy Management (DEM) an experienced actor in the field Presentation (438 Kb PDF)
• Carbon Project Financing and CER Financing – a comprehensive presentation from an integrated carbon services provider (TISCO) Presentation (199 Kb PDF)
• Promotion of programmatic CDM to support SMEs implementing Energy Efficiency Projects in Thailand - an innovative programme from the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) Presentation (548 Kb PDF)
• The challenge of developing a bundled CDM Project by Bright Management Consulting - or how to bring together several small-scale CDM project activities Presentation (554 Kb PDF)
• Carbon finance and other financing mechanisms for climate change mitigation by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) whose Global Environment Facility (GEF) is supporting RE and EE projects in Thailand Presentation (771 Kb PDF)

For further information about SETatWork match-making events in Thailand, contact:
Prof. Thierry Lefèvre - t.lefevre@ceerd.net
Centre for Energy Environment Resources Development (CEERD)

TERI, as a part of the Sustainable Energy Technologies at Work (SETatWork) project under the European Commission's (EC) Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), organized this matchmaking event between Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project developers & EU stakeholders in the field of Energy Efficiency (EE) and Energy Saving Technologies (EST) in New Delhi on 15-16th of March, 2010. The event was well attended and covered a range of topics around energy efficiency and CDM in India and how companies in EU can offer their services to meet the technological requirements of Indian Industry so as to promote technology transfer.

The first day of the event comprised of presentations and panel discussions on energy efficiency and role of CDM in promoting it in India. Experts from industry, research organizations and European stakeholders shared their perspective with the audience that mainly comprised of representatives from industrial units. The first session covered the topic of energy efficiency in India. The speakers provided a round of energy efficiency situation in India and highlighted the technological challenges to achieve energy efficiency measures that the country plans to undertake. EU agencies and companies shared their experience regarding undertaking activities in Indian markets. Technologies available with EU companies especially on decentralized energy solutions were dealt in detail during the session. The second session being a technical session on CDM provided an overview on technologies available and the measures undertaken by Indian companies to avail benefits from CDM. Role and expectations from bi-lateral partners were also discussed. The session provided a comprehensive picture of energy efficiency efforts and their inter-linkage with carbon markets in India. The final session provided a buyer perspective on the sector. The speakers shared the buying models put into practice by them to formulate and provide an offer that is both acceptable to the buyer and seller of carbon credits. The session clearly brought out that the energy efficiency though is in good demand by the buyers, however, small size of such projects tends to make them less lucrative for the buyers, especially those on lookout for large CDM projects.

The second day of the event was focused on providing close interaction opportunities amongst the EU representatives and Indian company representatives. Partners from SETatWork, representatives from GTZ India, EBTC and Intersuez were available for undertaking one to one meetings with the participants to discuss and identify areas of possible technological collaboration. The aim of such collaboration as part of the project was to promote actual technology transfer. The event thus provided a platform to the participants to share their needs with financing agencies and potential technology providers. The meetings were intense and it is anticipated that the discussions would result in actual implementation in due course of time.

The presentations from this event are available at: www.setatwork.eu/events/1003india.htm

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

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.

Further information and the programmes for these events will be available on the event page soon:

http://www.setatwork.eu/events/1004china.htm

In the meantime...

.... 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

... and 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

As part of a Via-Expo event in Sofia, the Bulgarian SETatWork partner, Sofia Energy Centre, is organising the parallel session, "European Emission Trading Scheme in Bulgaria – Opportunities and Challenges" on 14 April 2010.

This session presents the current development of the carbon market in Bulgaria and what technology options and case examples exist on a sustainable energy path, as well as what SETatWork can offer to facilitate this.

Click on the link below for the agenda and registration form for the SETatWork Parallel Event:

http://www.viaexpo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=130&Itemid=189&lang=en

The Via-Expo 6th National Congress and Exhibition on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Sources for South-East Europe, takes place in the Inter Expo Center, Sofia on 14-16 April 2010. Further information can be found by clicking on the menu options on the above webpage.

Polish SETatWork partners, Primum Polska, will be arranging a project brokerage matchmaking event during with CEE Energy Trading 2010 on 29 April 2010 in Prague, Czech Republic.

For further information about this SETatWork match-making event contact:
Maria Szweykowska-Muradin - m.szweykowska@primum-polska.pl, Tel: +48 61 858 2812
Natalia Makowska - Email: n.makowska@primum-polska.pl, Tel: +48 61 858 2805

CEE Energy Trading 2010 is organised by EastEuro. The scope of the event is to discuss how the current fragmentation in the power market should be addressed in order to establish a central and unified platform for Power, Oil, Gas, Coal and Emissions Trading in the regions of Central and South Eastern Europe.

Part of this is how to address issues like congestion management, market transparency and understanding how to get around barriers to entry and finding regulatory competency.

SETatWork will be present at CEE Energy Trading in form of a presentation of the Polish partner Primum Polska and through distribution of project leaflets during the event.

For more information see the event website at: http://www.easteurolink.co.uk/cee-energy-trading

The EC CHP Directive (2004/8/EC) is put in place to promote the development of the co-generation concept in Europe, thereby harvesting the large energy efficiency potential in the field. The Share of CHP in the Slovak Republic is among the highest in Europe, as shown in Slide 30 from the presentation and in the map (below).

The SETatWork Slovak partner, Energy Centre Bratislava (ECB), has analysed the implementation process in Slovakia, the overall status and prospects for enhanced degree of high efficiency CHP.

The main findings are:

• Currently, 16% of energy in Slovakia is produced via CHP compared to the average of 11% in "EU 27".
• The goal of the Government policy is that CHP production is to provide primary energy savings of at least 10 %.
• In 2007, a Bill entitled "Promotion of CHP production" was codified, stipulating preferential fixed purchase prices for high efficiency CHP electricity.
• Production from small scale and micro cogeneration units may qualify as high-efficiency cogeneration.
• Guarantee of origin certificate has to be confirmed.

Strong support has been given from SETatWork activities to foster appropriate implementation in Slovakia in the form of training, match-making, publishing and dissemination activities. Among others, these efforts have oriented towards the ETS contributors with highest CHP potential in Slovakia, which are the following industries:

• Metalurgy
• Crude oil processing and Petrochemistry
• Chemical Industry
• Pulp & Paper Industry

Download the report (134 Kb PDF) from:
     http://www.setatwork.eu/downloads/Directive2008-8-EC_Slovakia.pdf

Download the Presentation (1885 Kb PPT) from:
     http://www.setatwork.eu/downloads/Directive 2008-8-EC_Slovakia.ppt

In connection to holding of the SETatWork Faciliation Workshop in Thailand (see above), the local partner CEERD has explored the Programmatic CDM concept that is a potential vehicle for promoting CDM project activities, including the area of energy efficiency.

One analysis has taken point of departure in the Renewable Energy Development (RED) Model that was initially developed in the framework of the DANIDA funded project: Promotion of Renewable Energy in Thailand (PRET). It was designed for the modeling of different incentive schemes and their effects on the Thai power system for the promotion of renewable energy technologies.

The analysis has addressed the inclusion of CDM as an extension of the existing RED model. As part of this, the implications of introducing both a sectoral and programmatic approach have been examined.

A key result of the analysis is that a sectoral CDM approach could help financing about 20% of the incentives needed for a shift towards a more sustainable power grid, provided that the certified emission reductions (CERs) are sold at a price of 15 Euro/ton.

More information can be found in the article below from JIN Quaterly presenting the results of the study performed by Philip Weiss, Dominik Most and Thierry Lefevre (pages 6-7 in JIN Quaterly issue linked below):

http://www.jiqweb.org/images/stories/JIQmagazine/2007Apr.pdf

Or in the original article from Elsevier:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2007.11.027

Since the last newsletter, 14 more Good Practice Case Studies (GPs) produced by SETatWork project partners have been published on the website. These cover a range of technologies and industries including:

• Improving energy efficiency in dairy industry, pulp and paper and other energy intensive industries, Sweden, as well as in the fertiliser production industry in India
• Improving energy efficiency and introduction of renewable energies in buildings in Bulgaria and Thailand
• Use of waste heat in from iron and steel, refining and processing industries in China, Sweden and India
• Wind and biodiesel production and use in the Swedish forest, pulp and paper industries
• Combined Cycle Power Plant, Slovak Republic

SETatWork and T@W Good Practices are currently in the process of being incorporated into the Case Studies search section of the SETatWork database.

• View all the SETatWork and T@W Good Practice case studies
• How to add your own case study to SETatWork