CO GENERATION DIRECTIVE
August 1st, 2003
KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved amendments to the proposed EU co-generation directive, which will promote the use of co-gen across Europe. The changes to the legislation, for instance, tell national governments, for instance, that they have to issue "guarantees of origin" proving that electricity benefiting from special privileges "is produced from 'high efficiency' co-generation." They also tell the European Commission that it is responsible for producing "harmonised efficiency reference values" for measuring separate ...
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