Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Information Clearing House for Central and Eastern Europe and

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Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency
Information Clearing House for Central and
Eastern Europe and Turkey
Kristina Vilimaite, Project Manager The Regional
Environmental Center for Central and Eastern
Europe September 30, 2004
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What is an Information Clearing House?

• Web-based information exchange system
• More than just a website links resources
  together
• Should remove information related barriers for
  REES development

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Geographical coverage

• 16 countries
• from Estonia
• to Turkey

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Why the Information Clearing House?

• Our experience situation changes fast in the
  region, RE and EE information not up-to-date
  scattered difficult to acquire
• REEEP partners identified urgent need for
  improving access to information
• EBRD assessment emphasizes the need for a central
  database, information clearinghouse, and
  matchmaking service for sponsors, developers, and
  financiers for renewable projects in CEE

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Who can benefit form the ICH
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Main Principles

• Information regularly reviewed by REEEP partners
• Partners can update
• Same template for all countries
• Good structure and extended search possibilities
• Based on the needs of users

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Example Aarhus Clearing House (UNECE)
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Contents of ICH Country-by-country
Institutions and peopledatabase
Laws and regulation (inc. feed-in tariffs and
subsidies)
Current state of penetration of RE and EE
Technical and economic potentialof RE and EE
Administrative procedures on how to start a
project
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Contents of ICH General
Concepts and definitions
Case studies success stories, lessons learned
Funding opportunities
Partner-matching facility
Available technologies
Events in CEE and Turkey
News QA, FAQ
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Questions

• Would such an ICH be useful in your work?
• Something should be added or removed?
• More emphasis on EE or RE or both equally?
• Analytic information or comprehensive data
  preferred?

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Contents in detail case studies

• Best practices and lessons learned - what topics
  would be the most useful
• Approval process (adm. procedures)
• Implementation issues during the project
  development
• Financing
• Technologies
• Public participation
• Other?

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Contents in detail Database of institutions
people

• Governmental institutions
• Experts (e.g. employees of universities and
  institutes, consultants)
• Producers of technology
• Technology retailers
• Producers of energy from renewable sources
• Power generation/distribution industries
• Non-governmental organisations
• Journalists covering energy issues
• Other or something not needed?

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For further suggestions and information please
write to Kristina Vilimaite ltkvilimaite_at_rec.orggt

• Thank you!