1. 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 F ördergesellschaft E rneuerbare E nergien e.V. (Society for the Promotion of Renewable Energy) Innovationspark Wuhlheide Köpenicker Str. 325 DE-12555 Berlin Phone: +49-30-65762706; Fax: +49-30-65762708; info@fee-ev.de; www.fee-ev.de@fee-ev.dewww.fee-ev.de

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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?

8. 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

9. 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