A big success: EHPA Dinner Debate on 13 April 2010
Hosted by MEP Dr. Paul Rübig, the EHPA organized its second dinner debate in the European Parliament in Brussels on 13 April 2010. The keynote speech was held by Nikolaos Roubanis from Eurostat on the accounting methods for different renewable energy sources in European Energy Statistics and its further development. He presented an extensive overview on how renewables are counted in primary and final energy and pointed out important issues for future developments.
Representatives from the biomass, solar thermal and heat pump sector commented on the subject and gave their point of view. Jean-Marc Jossart from the European Biomass association AEBIOM presented the state of the art of biomass statistics, Werner Weiss explained status-quo and future development of counting the solar thermal contribution on behalf of the European Solar Thermal Industry Federation ESTIF, and Thomas Nowak from the European Heat Pump Association highlighted a new approach towards appropriately counting the contribution from heat pumps in energy statistics.
The number of participants, the feedback on the presentations as well as the fruitful and interesting discussions confirmed the success of the evening, the importance of the subject and the great interest coming from Brussels energy community and the EP.
All presentations held during the evening can be found at our website .