Austrian CEEC Energy Partnership: Joint Activities in the field of EE and RES

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Austrian - CEEC Energy Partnership Joint
Activities in the field of EE and RES

• 8th CEI Summit Economic Forum
• 24-24 November 2005, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

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The Austrian Energy Agency

• The Austrian Energy Agency is Austrias national
  energy agency since 1977 created as non-profit
  membership association with about 50 members, 65
  employees and 5 Million Euro annual turnover.
• The Board of Directors consists of Federal
  Minister for Agriculture and Forestry,
  Environment and Water Management, Federal
  Minister of Economy, President of the Assembly of
  Federal Governors 9 other members elected from
  the General Assembly
• Our members are the Federal Government, 8
  Provincial Governments Laender, companies and
  associations from all energy sectors
  (electricity, gas, oil, biomass, hydropower,
  building, transport, consumers, producers of
  energy technologies, financing institutions)
• Our focus is on program management, studies and
  policy advice in
• efficient and sustainable production of energy
• efficient use of energy,
• stimulation of renewable energy sources
• promotion of innovative energy technologies
• management of the Austrian Climate Change Program
  (klimaaktiv ka)
• International co-operation in the field of energy
  with CEE countries.

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Introduce incentives Feed-in tariffs for
Hydropower plants with maximum capacity of 10 MW
in Austria
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Tariffs for electricity from biogas
(co-fermentation will reduce the tariffs by 25)
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Use of high efficient technologies as CHP,
trigeneration
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Capture of coal mine methan in Donetsk, Ukraine gt
CHP gt electr. heat car fuel CO2 certificates
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Czech Republic Energy savings in panell
buildings - Energy consumption before 180
kWh/m².y
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Possible view after refurbishmentEnergy
consumption after 50 kWh/m².y
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The Co-generation Centre in Bratislava, Slovak
Republic

• Between 1998 and 2004, the centre initiated and
  advised 55 new CHP projects with an installed
  capacity of 271 MWel based on new CHP
  technologies and with an investment of 102 Mio.
  euros. By the year 2006 a brochure will be
  produced presenting the CHP-centre and some of
  the resulting projects.
• This is equivalent to more than 30 of the total
  market potential of CHP of about 600 MWel.
• Many of the Cogeneration Centre projects were
  supported by the Environmental Support Scheme of
  the Austrian Ministry of Environment managed by
  Kommunalkredit (with grants up to 15 of the
  investment costs), in addition to PHARE funds,
  which often provided additional funding of 25.

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Modernisation of the district heating system of
Banská Bystrica and other municipalities in SK,
CZ and HU

• The district heating utility from Styria
  Steirische Fernwaerme between 1995 to 2002 as
  contractor did
• in Banská Bystrica the complete renovation of the
  town's largest, but outdated, district heating
  plant including a 7 km network of pipes for the
  supply of 23,000 households and companies with
  heat.
• The total investment was around 10 million.
• The level of savings was agreed upon in the
  contracts and lies between 25 and 30 per cent.

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Bioenergy-Information Centre at the SEA

• In 2003, a project financed by the Interreg IIIA,
  the Federal State of Lower Austria and the
  Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture and
  Forestry, Environment and Water Management was
  started which aims at establishing a
  Bioenergy-Information Centre at the SEA.
• The centre is being established between 2003 and
  supported from Austria until mid of 2006.
• The Austrian experience in the field of biomass
  district heating and biomass CHP will be used to
  train staff members of the SEA.
• The trained people at the SEA will be able to
  identify potential biomass projects on their own
  and support them during their realisation.
  Besides several training courses, excursions of
  experts from the Slovak Energy Agency and from
  the Slovak administration to Austria were
  organized and carried out.
• 5 biomass heating projects with a capacity of
  about 70 MWth are under preparation.

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Other Austrian activities in the CEI region
dealing with EE and RES

• Energy Partnership Programmes do exist between
  Austria and the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic,
  Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine
• Bioenenery projects in the Balkan region are
  supported by the Austrian Development Agency
  (ADA), too
• Austrias government
• is one of the donors of Nuclear Power
  Decommissioning Funds in Slovakia, Bulgaria and
  Ukraine which are partly focused on EE projects
• is one of the donors of the Bulgarian Energy
  Efficiency Fund (BEEF)
• has an ongoing open call in the Austrian JI/CDM
  Program which is aiming to purchase ERUs from
  JI/CDM projects (see www.ji-cdm-austria.at/)
• Austrias companies
• are very active in the CEI region, also as
  investors in the energy field.
• The Austrian Energy Days organised by the
  Austrian Energy Agency together with local
  partners and the Austrian Federal Economic
  Chamber - are supporting these activities. The
  next will be held on 17 -18 May 2006 in Celje,
  Slovenia.

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Thank you for your attention!

• Austrian Energy Agency
• Alois Geisslhofer
• Head of Unit
• International Cooperation
• Otto-Bauer-Gasse 6, A-1060 Vienna, Austria
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email alois.geisslhofer_at_energyagency.at
• I http//www.energyagency.at
• Newsletter and energy profiles of Central and
  Eastern European countries at http//www.energyage
  ncy.at/enercee/index.htm