MicroCHEAP

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MicroCHEAP

• Month 6 Meeting
• Fördergesellschaft Erneuerbare Energien e.V.,
• Industrie- und Handelskammer Potsdam, Germany
• 4th/5th April, 2005
• Workpackage 1
• Project Co-ordination and Further Development
• Eberhard Oettel
• Fördergesellschaft Erneuerbare Energien e.V.
• (Society for the Promotion of Renewable Energy)
• Innovationspark Wuhlheide
• Köpenicker Str. 325
• DE-12555 Berlin
• Phone [phone] Fax [phone]
• info_at_fee-ev.de www.fee-ev.de

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MicroCHEAP Workpackage 1 Management

• Suggestions 1
• Define management rules, f.I.
• Responsibility for content of every meeting
  with CHALEX, host for local organisation only
• Financing of meetings (check with Commission)
• Invitation of managers from European
  MicroCHP-industry and researchers to every
  meeting (right to speak, but not to decide,
  financial conditions travel and subsistence on
  their own account plus fee 180 cash, one third
  for CHALEX and two thirds for organizer)
• Obligatory participation of all partners to
  all meetings (nominate substitutes)
• Send preliminary agenda one moth before the
  event, especially tasks
• No abbreviations without explication

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MicroCHEAP Workpackage 1 Management

• Suggestions 2
• Invite a responsible officer from the Commission
  to every meeting
• Clarify definitely and in detail all aspects of
  financing
• Invite an officer from the financial unit of
  the Commission to read a paper and for discussion
  to the next meeting
• As the Commission to send an experience
  auditor to the next meeting
• Find a permanent partner with the financial
  unit for consulting
• Define exactly what are allowed costs, what is
  risky
• Ask for instructions on lessons learned

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MicroCHEAP Workpackage 1 Management

• Suggestions 3
• Fix ONE uniform database for all tasks and
  workpackages
• (use and expand the ECN-proposal)
• Establish reporting of every partner to nay
  meeting with a structured chart
• Suggested content
• 1) Changes in situation (strategy, new players,
  innovative technologies, new projects and fate of
  old ones)
• 2) compare own progress achieved in the
  workpackages with schedule
• 3) own public relations (posters, papers,
  articles, interviews, exhibitions etc.)
• 4) next steps to go
• 5) proposals, suggestions, help needed

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MicroCHEAP Workpackage 1 Management

• Suggestions 4
• Define October 2004 as month 0. November as month
  1
• Dedicate one workshop to a special meeting of
  developers and manufacturers of RES-Micro-CHP
  with researchers in order to
• gain them for co-operation with
  MicroCHeaP-partners
• question them on barriers, hurdles and most
  urgent activities
• stimulate co-operation between them both for
  transfer of successful scientific results to
  industry and for solving problems
• organise joint activities and next projects
  with MicroCHeaP
• Involve experts on sociological research (to find
  out target groups, channels to them, their
  motivations, client circles from fff family,
  friends and fools to ordinary consumers

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MicroCHEAP Workpackage 1 Management

• Suggestions 5
• Find channels for integration of funding bodies
• MicroCHP is a business for single consumers and
  small companies. It needs MicroCredits on
  European scale, special funds and securities.
• Double task
• 1st) To harmonise the criteria of bankers,
  managers of funds and investors with the
  technical knowledge of engineers
• 2nd) To counterbalance Basel II and and the
  retreat of big business banks from crediting of
  small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and
  find new forms of fundraising and financing

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MicroCHEAP Workpackage 1 Management

• Suggestions 6
• To combine RES and micro-polygeneration means
  trading with new complete value-added chains,
  that means
• clutching people that usually do not co-operate
  (f.i. stirling manufacturers
• so far have used to contact natural gas
  suppliers but have not co-operated with
• with biogas plant or biomass combustion plant
  operators
• Open problems arisen
• storage is a key question. How to tread it?
• What about waste? Do we tread it as renewable
  energy source?
• And landfill, mine and sewage gas?

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MicroCHEAP Workpackage 1 Management

• Suggestions 7
• Internet
• Links to all partners
• Establish new buttons with free access for the
  European scientific and industrial community as
  well as operators of MicroCHP plants
• 1) Barriers, hurdles and proposals to surmount
  them
• 2) Report on own technology, patents, projects
• 3) Proposals for EU-strategy and technological
  politics
• 4) Report on experiences with plat operation

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MicroCHEAP Workpackage 1 Management

• Suggestions 8
• Public relations
• Collecting all public representations by all
  MicroCHP-partners
• Joint presentations, f.I.
• 14th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
  Biomass for Energy, Industry and Climate
  Protection
• 17 21 October 2005, Paris
• Joint Paper f.i. Integrated Biomass MicroCHP
  for Europe
• Call Deadline 7 April 2005 (!!!), but one page
  only
• (Should we combine the conference with an
  additional meeting?)
• World Gas Conference
• 05 09 June 2006, Paris