EGS ETV System Expectations SME perspectives from Englands Northwest

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EGS ETV System Expectations SME perspectives
from Englands Northwest

• Nick Storer
• Envirolink Northwest

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SME Issues

• Cost of technology development
• Relatively expensive
• Cost of commercialisation
• Often prohibitive
• Additional cost burden of Verification
• May hinder new technology development

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SME Requirements of EGS ETV System

• Quick
• Simple
• Robust
• Consistent
• Low cost
• Universally recognised
• Rigorously policed

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Practical Solutions?

• Graduated verification process
• Step by step approach
• Each step being costed separately
• Graded certificate system
• Relating to progress in the verification process
• Specified-technology-list system
• Technologies matching published criteria are
  listed

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Specified-Technology-List System Example from UK

• Enhanced Capital Allowance Scheme for Energy
  Efficient Technologies
• Energy Technology List
• ECA only available for technologies on ETL
• 14 designated technologies
• 55 sub-technologies
• Must meet prescribed criteria to go on list

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Example Criteria
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Continued
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Administration

• Local verification
• Market/technology focussed?
• Member/Regional based?
• Central administration
• Single database of verified technologies
• Ensure local administration / policing is
  standardised
• Universal recognition of verification in one
  member-country

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Thank you

• Nick Storer
• Envirolink Northwest
• www.envirolinknorthwest.co.uk