The second Plenary Meeting of the CA-RES4 was held online from 18th-19th May 2022.
You can find the Session Highlights of all Plenary Meetings here:
The following topics were discussed:
Core Theme 1: Governance, target achievement and cooperation
Session 2: Two instruments to speed up the development of RE - Acceleration of planning and permitting procedures and PPAs
Session 14: Regional Cooperation: Implementation Issues
Core Theme 2: RES Electricity
Session 8: Power Purchase Agreements – focus on sellers and purchasers
Session 10: Administrative procedures - good-practice examples
Core Theme 3: Decarbonising Heating and Cooling
Session 3: Status of the implementation of the minimum level for renewable energy in major renovation of buildings (RED art. 15.4)
Session 13: Renewable heating and cooling in the industrial sector
Core Theme 4: Biomass Mobilisation and Sustainability
Session 5: Availability of sustainable forest biomass: Impacts of the new EU forest strategy and the new operational guidance on forest biomass criteria on national bioenergy targets and policies.
Impacts of the new EU forest strategy and the new operational guidance on forest biomass criteria on national bioenergy targets and policies.
Session 11: Sustainable biogas production: Impacts of new EU policies on the development of biogas production. Compliance of biogas pathways with REDII sustainability criteria (e.g. intermediate energy crops). Tools developed by MS and/or Voluntary Schemes for GHG emissions savings calculation
Core Theme 5: Decarbonising Transport
Session 1: Possibilities for integrating electricity into national systems as contributor to the national RED transport target
Session 7: Assessing the possibilities and challenges to the incorporation of RFNBOs into national systems as contributor to the RED transport targets
Core Theme 6: Consumer/Citizen´s Engagement
Session 6: Transposition of Article 21 'Renewable Self-Consumers'
Session 12: Renewable Energy Communities
TF GO: Guarantees of Origin and Consumer Information
Session 4: Guarantees of origin for renewable gases
Joint Session CT4/CT5
Session 15: Verification of compliance: Supervision by MS and relation with voluntary schemes: Impacts of the implementing act, cooperation between MS