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IntroductionPublished on 03-01-2008

cogeneration

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.