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The CODE (Cogeneration Observatory and Dissemination Europe) project is an EU wide independent assessment of the progress of the Cogeneration Directive 2004/08/EC. By giving rapid assessment on the Directive’s deployment the CODE project supports early corrective action. By building regional knowledge bases and providing examples of best practise, the project enables more rapid market development.
A central database of European cogeneration policy will be created which will be the first complete summary of high efficiency cogeneration across Europe and the baseline measure for future studies.
CODE uses a regional structure to systematically review and report on the Member States progress. Regional groupings provide a Member State and regional summary starting with the high efficiency cogeneration national potentials followed by support mechanisms, barriers and Guarantees of Origin process. A regional view will be taken on progress and a handbook of case studies developed to speed up market penetration, through referential marketing and best practise spread.
Another challenging task will be the comparisons between the 27 national policy approaches against three standard test cases. All the results will be used to produce a European Cogeneration Roadmap leading to 2020.
Case Studies
The CODE project produced a Handbook with best practice cases. These examples show the diversity of cogeneration: sizes, applications and fuel types. A selection of innovative case studies from all over Europe has been compiled in the ‘CODE – Cogeneration Case Studies Handbook’. This document also provides insight into what drives a successful cogeneration project. Download the report here
Also find a quick access classification of our case studies here
Latest News
Proceedings of the CODE Final Dissemination Workshop 11-10-2011 The CODE Final Dissemination Workshop took place on Friday 25 March 2011 in Brussels, the day after the COGEN Europe Ann...Two new European reports 15-06-2011 The CODE team finished two reports: one is a proposal for a European Cogeneration Roadmap; the second one reviews the pr...
Cogeneration – Case Studies Handbook 13-04-2011 The CODE project produced a Handbook with best practice cases. These examples show the diversity of cogeneration: sizes,...
Events Diary
List of CODE events 14-04-2010 CODE Final Dissemination Workshop Third round of CODE workshops CODE debate on European Cogeneration Roadmap Stakehol...List of Cogeneration Events 11-12-2009 Please click here to see a full list of our events....
Presentation of cogeneration by IEA and COGEN Europe in Copenhagen, Sunday 13 December 2009 09-12-2009 At the GE Bright Green booth in Copenhagen, the International Energy Agency (IEA) and COGEN Europe will talk about cogen...
EACI co-funded project
Executive Agency for Competitiveness & InnovationThe CODE project is co-funded by the Executive Agency for Competitiveness & Innovation (EACI).
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