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Key Issue 1 - Verifiable Targets for RES-H


Both the EU renewable electricity Directive and the biofuels Directive include a European and national target. The Initiative Report on Renewable Heating and Cooling of the European Parliament also asks for targets.
However, setting verifiable targets for RES heating and cooling implies the solution of some statistical and methodological issues. The goal of this task was to tackle these issues and develop recommendations for a methodology to set RES-H targets and to identify the improvements of the statistics necessary to implement verifiable RES-H targets.
The outcomes enable policy makers to discuss RES-H targets with stronger statistical knowledge and clear methodological proposals on how to set verifiable RES-H targets. These methods can be applied at regional, national or EU level and will serve as a solid foundation for the political debate on how to fulfill the White Paper targets by 2010 and further. During Phase 1 of the project, a detailed common framework to gather the available statistical information on RES-H has been developed. This common framework ensured that the specific work done on the single RES-H technologies produces results that are comparable. Significant sets of available statistical data are defined. A methodology for describing the reliability of the original sources has been defined. For the countries and technologies, where reliable statistics do not exist, this subtask defined an objective and comparable method for gathering the estimations of a minimum number of market experts. During Phase 2 of the project, the data for the single RES-H technologies was gathered. These statistics cover the EU-25 and include a description of the sources, of their likely accuracy and recommendations to improve their quality. A proposal for a method to set verifiable absolute targets for Solar Thermal/Bioheat/Geothermal at national and European level has been developed. During Phase 3 of the project, the data previously gathered was compiled into the first systematic statistic for RES-H generation ever produced. The sources of all data is provided. Their reliability was evaluated. Based on this evaluation, the information gaps have been identified. Recommendations to overcome the information gaps were formulated, taking into account the specific possibilities of the different RES-H technologies.

Project results currently available:

  • RES-H:  

        Best Available RES-H statistics, Setting verifiable targets for RES-H

       

 

Common Methodology