RES-H Policy

Advisory Committee

1. Project MeetingFreiburg, 21 October 2008

Veit Bürger (v.buerger@oeko.de)

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Scope

• Advisory Committee will meet three times

• AC will discuss the progress of the work programme of the project and its intermediate results

• Involvement of selected senior representatives of important target groups (especially national policy makers and RES-H/C industry representatives) serves as a means of dissemination of the project results in an early stage

• AC allows for information exchange between national policy makers

• All partners are supposed to attend the AC meetings

• Number of AC members will be minimum 10 external participants

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Timing

• 1. AC meeting– February 2009 (back to back to 2. project meeting, London)– Focus: RES-H/C target setting (discussion of interim findings of

WP3)

• 2. AC meeting– November 2009 (back to back to 4. project meeting, Warshaw)– Focus: qualitative evaluation of selected RES-H/C policy options

(WP4)

• 3. AC meeting– October 2010 (back to back to 6. project meeting, Athens)– Focus: Discussion of policy recommendations

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Composition

• German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, more or less confirmed

• European Renewable Energy Council (EREC), confirmed

• European RES-H/C technology specific Associations(e.g. ESTIF, AEBIOM, EGEC)

• Euroheat & Power

• E.ON Värme Sverige, confirmed

• Selected national policy makers (at least one per target country)

• Who else?

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Next steps

• Partners from target countries identify representative from national policy sector

• Oeko responsible for AC members on EU level• Oeko will coordinate the approach of potential national AC

members• Timeline: AC should be set up by the end of this year