Nick Storer | Chief Executive, Envirolink Northwest, UK

EGS ETV System Expectations – SME perspectives from

England’s Northwest

Nick Storer

Envirolink Northwest

Nick Storer | Chief Executive, Envirolink Northwest, UK

SME Issues

• Cost of technology development– Relatively expensive

• Cost of commercialisation– Often prohibitive

• Additional cost burden of Verification– May hinder new technology development

Nick Storer | Chief Executive, Envirolink Northwest, UK

SME Requirements of EGS ETV System

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

Nick Storer | Chief Executive, Envirolink Northwest, UK

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

Nick Storer | Chief Executive, Envirolink Northwest, UK

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

Nick Storer | Chief Executive, Envirolink Northwest, UK

Example Criteria

Nick Storer | Chief Executive, Envirolink Northwest, UK

Continued…

Nick Storer | Chief Executive, Envirolink Northwest, UK

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

Nick Storer | Chief Executive, Envirolink Northwest, UK

Thank you

Nick Storer

Envirolink Northwest

www.envirolinknorthwest.co.uk