Government & Regulatory Committee
The EU Commission recently faced a number of challenges in preparing the energy package, and in particular the new renewables Directive (2009/28/EC), which seeks to promote RES electricity and increase the share of renewable energy sources contributing to electricity production in the EU. The Guarantee of Origin supports the achievement of this, by providing an electronic document that ensures that the origin of electricity produced from renewable energy sources can be guaranteed as such, and has the sole function of providing proof to a final customer that a given share or quantity of energy was produced from renewable sources as required by Article 3(6) of Directive 2003/54/EC.
On 25 June 2009, the Association of Issuing Bodies (AIB) organised a workshop in Brussels to create a forum for discussion and action on topics related to disclosure of electricity in the Internal Energy Market; and by extension the relationship between all forms of transferable certificates and support schemes.
Attendees at the GRC included competent bodies from EU, ECSEE and EEA countries for regulation and control of electricity disclosure and Guarantees of Origin (GO) for electricity from renewable energy sources and high-efficiency cogeneration, including AIB members. Future meetings will include bodies in charge of regulation and control of other types of energy certificate, such as GO for RES heat & cooling and biogas. The GRC will meet once or twice a year, and elaboration of specific action points may be delegated to Task Forces, as appropriate.
Discussion points for this meeting included:
- Redesign and harmonisation of disclosure
- Calculation of residual mix
- Prevention of double counting
- Trade
- Possible future extension of scope towards relationship with support certificates
- Relation with Market.
AIB chairs a separate (Markets) Committee with market participants on a regular basis, and it is planned that input to and from both committees will be one of the recurring agenda points. Attendance at this workshop is free for governmental officials and regulators. Please direct any enquiries to the Secretary General of the AIB, at the following address:
Association of Issuing Bodies
21/23 Station Road Gerrards Cross Bucks SL9 8ES United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1494 681183 | Fax: +44 (0)1494 681183 | Email: info@aib-net.org
SPEAKERS & PRESENTATIONS
Thursday, 25 June 2009
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Chairman's introduction to the conference
(Thierry van Craenenbroeck, AIB Treasurer and Technical Director of Vlaamse Reguleringsinstantie voor de Elektriciteits en Gasmarkt (VREG), Belgium)
Introduction to AIB
(Gineke van Dijk, Chairman of the AIB Board and Manager of CertiQ, Netherlands)
Tour de Table - the challenges
(Tom Howes, EU Commission - DG TREN)
ETRACK
(Mark Draeck - member of ETRACK project, and Senior Energy Specialist, IT Power, UK)
Proposal for Disclosure / Residual Mix activities
(Dominik Seebach, Oeko-Institut, Germany)
Reaction from the Market
(Claes Hedenstrom, Vattenfall, Sweden)