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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.
Featured Stories
Cogeneration finance and economics – how to improve financing in EuropeThe economic benefits of suitably-sited cogeneration plants are considerable, and so well-known that the current lack of investment in the technology, particularly for large-scale plants, is not easy to understand. COGEN Europe’s Fiona Riddoch takes a look the barriers and opportunities around financing new CHP plants in European countries. Find a link to an article Fiona has produced for COSPP here.
Latest News
CODE Stakeholders Workshop on the review of the Cogeneration Directive 04-06-2010 Within the CODE project, a workshop was organised on 3 June on the possible review of the Cogeneration Directive. Cogene...CODE summary report on the European potential for cogeneration 03-02-2010 The CODE project team has finalised the ‘European summary report’ giving the first analysis of Members States’ rep...
COGEN Europe Press Release – Member States fail to transpose Cogeneration Directive 03-12-2009 On 20 November the Commission sent a Reasoned Opinion to Portugal, Slovakia, Finland and the United Kingdom for failure ...
Events Diary
List of CODE events 14-04-2010 Stakeholders workshop on the review of the cogeneration directive Second round of CODE workshops First round of CODE w...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 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
The CODE project is co-funded by the Executive Agency for Competitiveness & Innovation (EACI).
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