International Energy Agency Energy Technology Collaboration

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International Energy AgencyEnergy Technology
Collaboration
Ms. Carrie Pottinger Energy Technology
Co-ordinator IEA Energy Technology Collaboration
Division
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The IEA

• Founded as an autonomous body within the OECD in
  1974, in the wake of the first oil shock.
• Initial objectives were to represent major
  energy-consuming nations and to work for
  stability in world energy markets
• Commitments to hold oil stocks, co-ordinate
  emergency responses, share oil
• Work to reduce reliance on oil conservation of
  energy, development of alternative sources,
  energy RD IEA International Energy
  Technology Collaboration
• Dialogue with oil producers oil market statistics

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Energy Technology Collaboration
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Organigramme
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The IEA Secretariat

• Provides support to IA participants
• Legal
• Administrative (Office of Energy Technology)

• Facilitates interaction among IAs
• Outreach
• OPEN Bulletin
• Workshops
• Collaboration
• Identifying areas of common interest

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The IEA Secretariat

• Office of Non-Member Countries
• Develops programmes and relationships with
  Non-Member countries, including hosting periodic
  multilateral technical-level meetings of experts
  from energy producing and consuming countries to
  promote understanding and communication, and
  organising seminars and workshops on specific
  topics such as energy efficiency and regulatory
  issues with non-Member countries

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Research Community

• Governmental or quasi-governmental energy
  technology entities
• Research institutes
• Universities
• Scientists
• Energy technology companies

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Participant Categories

• Contracting Parties
• Governments of OECD member and non-Member
  countries, the European Communities, or
  international organisations

• Sponsors
• Entities from the private sector, which may or
  may not have been designated by the government

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Framework
IEA International Energy Technology Collaboration

• Objective

• Provide a structure, or Framework, for
  international co-operation in energy technology
  research, development and deployment.

• The Framework is the legal and management basis
  for the international collaborative contracts
  among IEA Member and non-Member countries, called
  Implementing Agreements.

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Framework

• Benefits

• Reduces RD cost and duplication of work - allows
  for greater scale in projects
• Provides good information sharing and creates
  networks - sometimes seen by participants as the
  greatest benefit
• Links IEA Member countries
  Europe, North America, Australia/Japan/Korea
  and increasingly, non-IEA countries
  Brazil, China, Russia, India, South Africa,
  ....
• Involves industry where possible to ensure market
  relevance of results
• Provides long-term experience with a successful
  management and legal framework for collaboration
• - Flexibility -
  Intellectual property protection
• - Equal voluntary
  partnerships

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Fields of Collaboration
Framework

• Energy End-Use Technologies (14)
• Fossil Fuels (6)
• Fusion Power (8)
• Renewable Energies (9)
• Intersectorial (4)

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Extent of the Programme
Framework

• 41 current Agreements
• over 100 tasks (annexes)
• nearly 500 participating institutions
• Average 12 countries per Agreement
• US120-150 m spent each year under the
  collaborative programme
• Non-IEA Member countries can and do participate

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Nature of Collaboration...almost anything is
feasible
Framework

• Information exchange on (governmental)
  programmes, policies, funding priorities,
  research projects and results
• Jointly funded and/or executed studies
  (technology assessment, feasibility,
  environmental impact, market, policy)
• Jointly funded and/or executed research projects
  involving hardware, test facilities etc. in
  different countries
• Joint marketing of results, provision of
  commercial services from information and
  experiences acquired

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Framework
Funding

• Cost Sharing

• Task Sharing

• Participants contribute to a common fund

• Participants devote specified resources and
  personnel

• Project contracted out to a specific entity and
  results are provided to all

• Project may be a common work programme or just
  information sharing

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Intellectual Property
Framework

• Results are shared equally among contracting
  parties
• Studies, research papers
• Publications
• Databases
• Models
• Web sites

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Committee Review

• Committee for Energy Research Technology (CERT)
• End-Use Working Party (EUWP)
• Fossil Fuels Working Party (FFWP)
• Renewable Energy Working Party (REWP)
• Fusion Power Co-ordinating Committee (FPCC)

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Committee for Energy Research Technology
(CERT)

• Analyses energy technology issues and recommends
  effective policy approaches based on Member
  country experiences
• Tracks energy technology RDD trends
• Encourages international co-operation on the RD,
  demonstration, and dissemination of energy
  technologies, particularly through the Working
  Parties and Implementing Agreements

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For more informationCarrie PottingerEnergy
Technology Co-ordinatorEnergy Technology
Collaboration DivisionInternational Energy
Agency9, rue de la Fédération75739 Paris Cedex
15carrie.pottinger_at_iea.orgtel. 33 1 40 567 67
61fax [phone]Technology
Agreements web pagehttp//www.iea.org/dbtw-wpd/Te
xtbase/techno/index.asp