Events
As the E-TRACK Project is actively seeking participation of all stakeholders, three rounds of consultations were organised in each country, and the outcomes and recommendations were presented at a high level conference in Brussels in March 2007. More information can be found below.
A European Tracking Standard for Electricity (E-TRACK )
European Conference on the future of energy certificate systems
Brussels, 9 March 2007
As part of the liberalisation of energy markets in Europe, electricity suppliers have been obliged to disclose the origin of their energy to consumers. This disclosure obligation, as well as support schemes for electricity from renewable energy or high-efficient cogeneration, requires accounting mechanisms in the energy market, which allow to “track” the information about how electricity was generated. As the national energy markets grow together to a European internal energy market, it is important that the procedures used for this accounting of electricity generation attributes are co-ordinated on the European level in order to avoid wrong information on disclosure statements.
The E-TRACK Project has analysed
the requirements for accounting of electricity generation attributes
and has developed a proposal for a comprehensive European tracking standard
for electricity, which builds upon existing international certificate
schemes. The conference will present the proposal and its implications,
and will discuss the future of energy certification.
Confirmed speakers include: Mr. Claude Turmes (MEP), European Commission,
Association of Issuing Bodies, Austrian Energy Agency, CertiQ (The Netherlands),
European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET), Energinet.dk (Denmark),
Energy Research Centre (The Netherlands), Eurelectric, E.ON Energie (Germany),
Federation of German Consumer Organisations, Flemish Regulator for the
Electricity and Gas Market, VREG (Belgium), Öko-Institut (Germany),
Pure Energi (United Kingdom), RECS International, Verbund (Austria) and
VREG (Belgium).
Who attended
Authorities and regulators dealing with electricity markets, electricity
generators, traders and suppliers, system operators, consumer and environmental
organisations, energy certification bodies and consultants.
Documentation - presentations are available here.
The conference was supported by Statnett SF and by the Flemish Energy Agency.
The E-TRACK Project is supported by the Intelligent Energy Europe Programme.
Consultation workshops
The E-TRACK Project is designed around three rounds of intensive consultations
with all stakeholders at national and European levels. This intensive
consultation process included some 150 stakeholders in participating
countries and forms an important contribution to the results of the project,
aiding dissemination of information to and between the stakeholders.
Project partners cover nine European countries and consultation workshops
were organised in each of these countries. All EU Member States as well
as five further European countries – Bulgaria, Croatia, Norway,
Switzerland and Romania are invited for involvement in the project. Therefore,
stakeholders from non-participating countries were invited to a national
workshop in one of the participating countries. In addition, specific
Nordic and Accession country workshop were be organised.
The minutes and presentations from those workshops can be found in the table Workshop Reports below.
| National workshop | Invited non-participating countries | Country co-ordinator |
| Austria | Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia | Austrian Energy Agency Herbert.ritter@energyagency.at |
| France | Spain, Portugal | |
| Germany | Oeko c.timpe@oeko.de |
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| Italy | Cyprus, Malta, Greece | GRTN natascia.falcucci@grtn.it |
| Lithuania | Estonia, Latvia | LEI inga@mail.lei.lt |
| Netherlands | Belgium, Luxembourg | ECN tendonkelaar@ecn.nl |
| Poland | Ecofys K.Mirowska@ecofys.pl |
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| Switzerland | Eawag/Cirus jochen.markard@eawag.ch |
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| United Kingdom | Ireland | IT Power mark.draeck@itpower.co.uk |
| Nordic | Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway | Oeko c.timpe@oeko.de |
| Accession countries | Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Romania | Oeko d.seebach@oeko.de |
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| First workshop | Second workshop | Third workshop | |
| General | Slides | Working Paper | |
| Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia | 13 May 2005 notes slides |
18 May 2006 notes slides |
12 January 2007 notes slides |
| France, Spain, Portugal | 20 December 2006 notes slides |
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| Germany | 25 May 2005 notes slides |
21 November 2006 notes slides |
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| Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Malta | August 2006 notes |
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| Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia | 20 December 2006 notes slides |
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| Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg | 5 July 2006 notes slides |
23 November 2006 notes slides |
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| Poland | 20 March 2007 notes slides |
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| Switzerland | 28 April 2005 notes slides |
19 May 2006 notes slides |
27 November 2006 notes slides |
| United Kingdom, Ireland | 16 May 2005 notes slides |
24 July 2006 notes slides |
4 December 2006 notes slides |
| Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden | 7 June 2005 notes slides |
15 May 2006 notes slides |
29 November 2006 notes slides |
| Further bilateral meetings and conference presentations were held/given in Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania. | March 2007 email for info |
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