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Green-X


The GREEN-X project lasted 24-months; it was supported by the European Commission under the 5th Framework Programme. The project was officially launched at the Renewable Energy House on the 14th of November 2002. It aimed at the derivation of optimal promotion strategies for increasing the share of RES-E in a dynamic European electricity market. There were 8 work packages, implemented by 9 partners: the Vienna University of Technology (main coordinator), IT Power Ltd (UK), KEMA (NL), Risoe National Laboratory (DK), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES), Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Angewandten Forschung e.V. (DE), Wienstrom GmbH (A), Elektrizitätsgesellschaft Laufenburg AG (CH) and EREC. Objectives:

The core objective of this proposal was to facilitate a significantly increased RES-E generation in a liberalised electricity market with minimal costs to European citizens. A dynamic Green-X toolbox was developed in order to identify the most important strategies.

By disseminating the Green-X toolbox and the results of the project to policy makers and various stakeholders, acceptance of an EU-wide effective promotion system will be improved.

International Conference Green-X

The International Conference Green-X took place at The Parabole, in Brussels on the 23rd of September 2004. The conference welcomed around 70 participants from 15 countries. During the morning session the final findings of the dynamic Green-X toolbox were presented. In addition EREC presented targets for 2020 for the EU-25. In the afternoon, more than 25 people attended the training session in which experts from the consortium explained and trained the participants on how to use the Green-X toolbox.

The Green-X toolbox is available on CD-ROM. Please order a copy of the CD-ROM from the Project partners.

You can take a look at the Conference programme here.

EREC's role:

EREC played an important role in Work Package 6, both on the evaluation of the tools developed by the Green-X toolbox and in the discussion of the results and the recommendations that can be derived from the various simulations using the Green-X toolbox.

The elaboration of Work Package 7 was EREC's main task. It acted as the coordinator of the part International Conference and Dissemination Workshop. The essential insights of the project, especially dynamics of integrated market for RES-E were presented and discussed with a range of stakeholders, representatives for the European Commission and project representatives.