Legislation and stakeholder documents / Project documents
The E-TRACK Project aims to outline a comprehensive approach for all tracking requirements in the European electricity sector. The project will also investigate the feasibility of a harmonised standard for tracking attributes electricity in Europe.
Therefore, a range of background documents including
EU and national legislation and documents from stakeholder groups which
are intensively scrutinised
in the project are presented here.
If you have more information or publications on tracking electricity
attributes that you want to share, please contact Mark Draeck,
IT Power, mark.draeck@itpower.co.uk.
Terminology
E-TRACK terms and acronyms, Working document, June 2006, 5 pages, 53 kb
EU Directives
Electricity Directive (Directive 2003/54/EC), including the Electricity Disclosure requirement.
Renewables Directive (Directive 2001/77/EC), including
Guarantees of Origin.
Directive
Progress reports
Cogeneration Directive (Directive 2004/8/EC), including Guarantees of Origin.
National legislation
Austria:
Full Liberalisation
of the Austrian Electricity Market & Green
Electricity
Commentaries and Recommendations by
Energie-Control GmbH on Power Labelling
Estonia: Electricity Market Act (2004)
France: Law on Energy (2005)
Germany: German law on supply of electricity and gas
Guidance Paper for the implementation of disclosure legislation in Germany provided by the German Electricity Association VDEW to their members
Ireland:
Disclosure of Information
to Final Customers by Suppliers:
A Consultation Paper by the Commission for Energy Regulation (March 2006)
Disclosure of Information to Final Customers by Suppliers: Proposed Decision And Responses to Comments Received CER/06/085 (May, 2006)
Disclosure of Information to Final Customers by Suppliers: Direction and Responses to Comments Received (June, 2006)
The Single Electricity Market (SEM): Proposed High Level Design, Sustainable Energy Ireland
Italy:
http://www.grtn.it/ita/fotovoltaico/NormativaDiRiferimento.asp
Latvia: Law on Electricity Market (2005) or pdf, 199 kb
Lithuania:
Law
on Energy (2002)
Law
on Electricity (2000)
The
Rules on Issue of Guarantees of Origin of Electricity produced from Renewable
Energy Sources (2005)
Poland:
Energy Act
Draft Amendment Energy Act
CHP decree (2004)
RES decree (2005)
RES decree (2006)
Switzerland:
http://www.stromkennzeichnung.ch
United Kingdom:
The Energy
Challenge - Energy Review Report (July 2006)
Fuel Mix Disclosure
by Electricity Suppliers in Great Britain - Guidelines (December
2005)
Guidelines on Green
Supply Offerings (April 2002)
Renewables Directive Member State reports, including links to national legislation
Stakeholder responses
Eurelectric position on electricity disclosure
Interesting articles on electricity tracking
Markard, J.; Holt, E. 2003: Disclosure of Electricity Products: Lessons from consumer research as guidance for energy policy issues, Energy Policy, 31 (14), 1459-1474
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