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R E N E W A B L E E N E R G Y
FINAL PROJECT MEETING
REACT Renewable Energy Action
Carlos García BarqueroHead Department of
Studies IDAE Brussels, February 24th 2005
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R E N E W A B L E E N E R G Y
National meetings planned
Project timetable Starting date August
2003 Final date February 2005
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R E N E W A B L E E N E R G Y
National meetings

• 3 National Meetings
• May 2004 1st National Meeting in the frame of an
  annual meeting focused on monitoring renewable
  energy projects in Spain (BDFER database).
• June 2004 National Meeting on Biomass, relevant
  as input for REACT project.

• October 2004 2nd National Meeting (Workshop).

Meeting Place IDAEs Headquarters, Madrid.
Here
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1st REACT National Meeting

• Who?
• Regional Energy Agencies
• Objective
• Disseminate all the Best Practices
• Attendance 22 participants
• Duration 4 hours

• Request to participants their opinion concerning
  two main questions
• Which Best Practices were needed in their
  region?
• Which actors involved in the promotion of the
  renewable energy sector should be invited to the
  REACT national workshop in Spain?

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Additional Biomass National Meeting

• Why?
• Strategic importance of the meeting for Biomass
  and RES planning in Spain ? Input to REACT
  project
• Who?
• Relevant actors within the biomass sector
• Objective
• To propose a Biomass Action Plan

• Results 24 recommendations
• Administrative (3)
• Energy resources (9)
• Energy crops
• Agriculture and forestry residues
• Creation of a real biomass market
• Financial (2)
• Feed in tariffs and fiscal measures for biofuels.
  
• Technological (4)
• Programs for R D
• Others (6)
• Thermal applications in buildings
• Biomass standards for solid biofuels

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2nd REACT National Meeting Workshop

• Who?
• Regional energy Agencies
• Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce
• National Commission of Energy (CNE)
• The Spanish Office for Climatic Change
• The Research Centre for Energy, Environment and
  Technology (CIEMAT)
• Attendance 25 participants
• Duration 5 hours

• Workshop Structure
• General presentation of the project.
• Presentation of REACT 23 Best
• Practices structured in 3 markets
• Electricity 8 Best Practices.
• Heat 12 Best Practices.
• Biofuels 3 Best Practices.
• Best Practices for Spain were not exposed
  -they were well known by all assistants-.
• Interactive workshop developed after the
  presentation of the Best Practices for each
  market.

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MAIN CONCLUSIONS ELECTRICITY MARKET (1)

• Recommendations concerning the revision of
  Directive 2001/77/EC
• Harmonisation of the support systems to CHP in
  the MMSS.
• Need of further development of the electrical
  grid for a better integration of renewable
  energies.
• Security criteria to optimise the operation of
  the electrical system.

• Recommendation of support to the feed-in
  tariff system
• Positive assessment of the new Spanish feed-in
  tariffs system Open option for RES-E
  participation in the electricity market, which
  includes both incentives and premiums.

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MAIN CONCLUSIONS ELECTRICITY MARKET (2)

• Wind energy
• General interest concerning the Portuguese
  Practice of giving a bonus ( of income) to the
  town councils.
• Not recommended to give priority to sites with
  low resources.
• Photovoltaic
• Positive valuation of Germans Best Practice.
• Recommendation of including in the premium a term
  of subvention for the connexion to the grid.

• General
• gtgtRecommendation of more aids to manufacturers
  involved in the RES energies sector.
• gtgtQuestion Is there any Best Practices for
  wind off-shore development?

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MAIN CONCLUSIONS HEAT MARKET

• Positive valuation of the Best Practices of
  Finland and Austria
• National energy advisors network Heat sales.
• Residential sector Aids to renewable energies.
• For Spain, it is concluded the need of
  coordination on measures of economic support,
  together with campaigns of promotion, for a
  better use of available aids for this energy
  market.

• Projects BIOHEAT and BIOHEAT II, show for
  Spain good results on the promotion of the
  thermal biomass by means of installers,
  manufacturers and city councils.

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MAIN CONCLUSIONS BIOFUELS MARKET

• General agreement with the proposal of
  recommendations drafted in the first version of
  the document REACT Liquid Biofuels, September
  2004