IEA-RETD Workshop in Tokyo, Japan

The IEA RETD Technology Collaboration Programme, together with the Japanese New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), organized a workshop in Tokyo in Japan on 15 May 2017 to present results of three recent RETD studies.

By combining findings from international research and knowledge from key experts, and by sharing experiences, the workshop delivered further insights into renewable energy technology deployment.

The workshop was translated live (English-Japanese) and documents were available in Japanese.

Agenda

The workshop was organized in three parts, each including a presentation of the key conclusions and recommendations of the projects followed by a roundtable discussion among all participants:

RE-INDUSTRY: Fostering renewable energy integration in the industry
Presentation of the project findings by David de Jager (Operating Agent)

REWind Offshore: International Offshore Wind Energy Deployment
Presentation of the project findings by Michael Stephenson (Carbon Trust)
Presentation of Insights into the evolution of wind offshore costs with lessons learnt from European tenders by David de Jager

RE-CRI: Using the Commercial Readiness Index as a tool in renewable energy policy design
Presentation of the project findings by David de Jager (Operating Agent)

Agenda – IEA-RETD Workshop Tokyo – 15 May

Details

Date: Monday 15 May 2017

Time: 13:00 to 16:30

Location: NEDO Branch Office, 1-4-2 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Fukushima Workshop – Revitalising local economies with renewable energy

The IEA RETD Technology Collaboration Programme, together with the Japanese New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) hosted a workshop in Koriyama-city in the Fukushima prefecture in Japan on 1^st September 2016 focusing on the revitalisation of local economies with renewable energy. The study with the same name was launched at this event.

Following the Fukushima nuclear incident, the Japanese government decided to reduce the dependence on nuclear power as much as possible by promotion of energy efficiency and acceleration of renewable energy. As a recovery process, the Fukushima prefectural government acknowledged the need to revitalise the local economy by expansion of renewable energy implemented by local communities.

By linking results from international research and sharing experiences from different IEA RETD TCP member countries, the Japanese government hopes to actively support the acceleration of renewable energy in the Fukushima region.

Agenda

The workshop was organised in three parts:

An overview of national policies in selected IEA RETD TCP member countries
- Europe
- France
- Ireland
- Germany
Revitalising local economies by renewable energy, by the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP)
The role of renewable energy in power-to-gas for transport, by the RETD Operating Agent

The workshop was attended by over 30 participants, from the Japanese government, local researchers, students and renewable energy project developers, Japanese media and IEA RETD TCP members.

RES-E-MARKETS Workshop, Paris

RES-E-MARKETS workshop presentation

List of participants

The IEA Secretariat, IEA-RETD and FTI-CL Energy hosted a workshop on Friday 30^th October 2015 in Paris to explore the market design issues associated with power systems with a high share of variable renewables, and to discuss the preliminary findings of the RES-E-MARKETS study.

The objective of the study is to provide policy recommendations for the direction of the reform of the current market and regulatory frameworks in the IEA-RETD member countries and beyond, in order to accommodate high shares of renewable energy in a timely, cost-effective and secure fashion.

The workshop was structured in four slots:

General analysis framework
Energy only market prototype
Prosumer market prototype
State-led and vertically integrated prototypes.

In the first part of the workshop, FTI-CL Energy presented the approach, the structure of the analysis and the preliminary findings of the study. Valuable high-level comments from more than 40 international experts were then given and will be integrated in the study.

The project is expected to be concluded in February 2016.

For more information on this project, please visit http://iea-retd.org/market-design-for-high-shares-of-renewables-res-e-markets

FIN-COMMUNITY Workshop, Oxford

FIN-COMMUNITY Presentation (extended version)

List of Participants

The IEA-RETD and Ricardo AEA hosted a workshop on the initial findings from the current FIN-COMMUNITY project analysing whether community projects have higher or lower costs for building and operating wind and solar projects compared to commercial projects of a similar size.

The FIN-COMMUNITY study is analysing the main costs (development and planning costs, construction costs, operating costs and taxation costs) in five countries (Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany and the UK) which each have differing policies and support for community energy.

The discussion focused around four main themes:

Development costs
Construction costs
Negotiating deals to sell electricity
Finance

Main takeaways and questions for policy makers

What is community energy policy all about? Is it about subsidising projects in locations where commercial developers would not invest? Or about unblocking supply constraints for community investors wanting to build in favourable locations?
Who is community energy meant to benefit? Local investors, project developers, communities?
Key is consistency in stability of support schemes with no threats of (retroactive) changes
Grants and low-interest loans can help to overcome risks during the development phase
’How-to’-guides can help to reduce development costs, as can standardised agreements and models. However, communities probably benefit most by having a professional project manager who has experience of delivering similar schemes. Public sector bodies in some jurisdictions offer this support for free.
Consideration should be given to having Government backed banks supporting the sector, e.g. acting as a secondary, junior lender
How to build a good reputation for community-led projects?

The final report, along with key recommendations for policy makers is anticipated in mid-October 2015.

For more information on this project, please visit http://iea-retd.org/archives/ongoing/fin-community

IEA-RETD Workshop, London

FIN-COMMUNITY Presentation

RE-STORAGE Presentation

RES-T-NEXT Presentation

The IEA-RETD hosted a workshop on current key topics of Renewable Energy Technology Deployment. The workshop provided an opportunity to learn more on the activities of IEA-RETD, in particular three ongoing state-of-the-art studies of IEA-RETD followed by an interactive discussion amongst the participants.

Agenda

The workshop addressed three main topics:

1. Renewable Energy Finance

IEA-RETD Report: Cost and financing aspects of community renewable energy projects (FIN-COMMUNITY)

Gregory Vaughan-Morris, Ricardo-AEA

The key barriers faced by community energy projects are generally well understood, however, there is much less information available about the actual cost and financing implications of these projects. The FIN-COMMUNITY project seeks to identify, document and assess the cost and financial impacts faced by community-owned renewable energy projects compared to commercial renewable energy projects.

More information can be found on http://iea-retd.org/ongoing/fin-community.

2. Energy Storage

IEA-RETD Scoping Study: Policies for Storing Renewable Energy (RE-STORAGE)

Paul Robson, E4tech

The RE-STORAGE scoping study aims to answer the question “Everybody is talking about storage – what is important for policy makers?” by giving an overview of policy relevant aspects relating to renewable energy and storage. It will explain no-regret policies and provide a guiding framework that allows policy makers to set priorities in a large scale uptake of RE scenario.

3. Renewable transport policies

IEA-RETD Report: Next Generation Policy Instruments for Renewable Transport (RES-T-NEXT)

David de Jager, Operating Agent IEA-RETD

The RES-T-Next project aims at providing an analysis of next generation RES-T policy instruments and recommendations regarding private and urban transport in order to increase the level of energy used from renewable sources and to decrease GHG emissions. More information can be found on the project webpage http://iea-retd.org/ongoing/res-t-next.

Participation

Date: Wednesday 26^th August 2015

Time: 1:30 to 4:00 pm

Location: Foreign & Common Wealth Office, Durbar Court Conference Room, King Charles Street, London, SW1A 2AH

IEA-RETD Roundtable Discussion “Integration of Renewable Electricity, Heating and the Role of Storage” in Paris (France)

Overview

In a roundtable discussion on 18 March 2015 at the Ministère du Dévéloppement Durable et de l’Energie in Paris, the IEA-RETD will present RE-INTEGRATION and RES-H-NEXT with a special focus on the role of energy storage.

The workshop will address three main topics: Renewable Heating and Cooling, Renewable Electricity and the Role of Storage.

Agenda

Wednesday, 18 March 2015, Roundtable Discussion, 13:45 – 17:00

13:30: Registration
13:45: Opening

Integrating Renewable Electricity

14:00: IEA-RETD Report: Integration of Renewables (RE-INTEGRATION)
14:20: Discussion

Renewable Heating and Cooling

14:50: IEA-RETD Report: Waking the Sleeping Giant – Next Generation Policy Instruments for Renewable Heating and Cooling in the Commercial Sector (RES-H-NEXT)
15:10: Discussion
15:40: Coffee Break

Linking RES-E and RES-H/C – The Role of Storage

16:00: IEA-RETD and Storage of Renewable Energy – a new topic? (RE-STORAGE)
16:10: Discussion
16:50: Conclusion from the Chair
17:00: Closing

Participation

Location:
Ministère de l’Ecologie, du Développement durable et de l’Energie
Grande Arche
Tour Sequoia
32nd Floor
92055 La Défense

The workshop is by invitation only. If you wish to participate, please contact the Operating Agent via e-mail: info@iea-retd.org

Side event at the UNFCCC-TEC, Bonn

In a side event to the 9^th meeting of the UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee, the Operating Agent of IEA-RETD, David de Jager, gave an overview of recent work, and highlighted particular work of interest to UNFCCC-TEC participants and observers.

What are key challenges for an accelerated renewable energy deployment, and how can policies reduce non-technical barriers?

The programme provided a short overview of recent IEA-RETD activities, and zoomed in on three concrete topics: renewables for remote areas and islands, the role of prosumers, and the design of next generation policy instruments.

Open for participants and registered observers to the 9th UNFCCC-TEC meeting.

18 August 2014, 18:30 – 19:30, Langer Eugen, Bonn, Germany

Innovation Chain Policy Workshop

London, 13 March 2014

Overview

As part of the RE-InnovationChain project, a workshop was organised on 13 March 2014 at the Carbon trust’s London offices, bringing together relevant policy makers and industry representatives from around the world.

The workshop was used to asses draft policy recommendations and encourage discussion on the key findings for this project. These recommendations have been developed over the last five months through desk research, interviews with +20 individuals currently working to deliver renewable energy technologies and through a previous workshop with industry and investors.

This final workshop with policy makers and industry will be used to reflect on the feasibility of potential output policy recommendations, comments and feedback from the workshop will be used to inform the final report.

Agenda

Joint IRENA – IEA-RETD REMAP workshop: Roadmap to Doubling RES

Global Energy Prospects: Roadmap to Doubling Renewables in the Global Energy Mix

On 29 November 2013, IRENA and IEA-RETD jointly organised a workshop that aimed to discuss key factors for achieving the goal of doubling the global renewable energy share by 2030 based on IRENA’s findings from 26 country studies. Its purpose was to identify opportunities for collaboration among international organisations, policy-makers, industry representatives, and scientists.

The meeting followed Europe’s Renewable Policy Conference (EREC 2013) in the same venue. Nearly forty people participated in the workshop. The participants included intergovernmental agencies, government agencies, academic organisations, industry representatives, and private firms in the renewable energy field.

The workshop discussed ways to achieve the doubling of renewables in the global energy mix by 2030, based on the results from analysis conducted within IRENA’s Renewables Roadmap for 2030 (REmap 2030) initiative. The workshop was organised around four technical sessions (map overall results, biomass, grid and storage needs in the roadmap, and socio-economic benefit of RE deployment) and roundtable discussion. IEA-RETD presented its work on next generation policy instruments for renewable electricity (RES-E-NEXT), and on economic co-benefits of renewable energy technology deployment (EMPLOY).

Innovation policies for renewables

Policies and incentives along the innovation chain

London, September 13^th 2013

As part of the RE-InnovationChain project a framing workshop with RE venture capitalists, financers, technology developers and utilities, has been organised on 13 September 2013 at the premises of the Carbon Trust in London.

At the workshop the findings of the synthesis report have been presented and discussed with the participants.

The workshop programme is as follows:

08:30 – 09:00 Coffee/time to arrive

09:00 – 09:30 CT: Introduction, context & objectives
09:30 – 10:10 Barriers to innovation in emerging renewables

10:10 – 10:25 Break

10:25 – 11:25 Solutions to overcoming barriers including learning from experience with more mature renewables
11:25 – 12:05 Areas where this study should focus
12:05 – 12:15 Round-up

12.15 – 13.00 Lunch

The workshop was organised by the Carbon Trust and Element Energy.