GSHP market development in Greece Action Plan - geo.power

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Advertisements in press (e.g. newspapers and technical magazines) and print-out materialare some of the most important key points to broaden GSHP market. For example posterscontaining basic information about GSHP technology, brochures and leaflets with technicaland economic data and other interesting information such as benefits for the environmentetc., have to be produced.Apart from the aforementioned promotion (technical workshops, conferences, pressreleases, newsletters etc.), the publicity has to be launched through,demonstration activities of the best-practice projects through on site visits.a webpage creation supporting also a forum with any kind of information regardingthe existing commercial and installation companies,The presentation of new best practices on GSHP technology, the technical news and theGSHP systems evaluation must be included in the webpage and be updated in daily basis.This point is regarded of primary importance in enhancing the GSHPs disseminationactivities.A profound knowledge of the topic dictates the concession of an annual conference atleast together with conducting of a specific number of seminars and technical workshops.The resources for all these activities are not expected to exceed the 0,2 M€. The webpagecreation and O & M is budgeted at 0.05 M€ while an additional amount of 0,25 M€ is neededfor use in promotional activities and organisation of site visits, making a total of 0,5 M€ to becovered by EU structural funds for Greece.Significant information will have to be provided to the local Managing Authority of theEU Structural Fund in order to open public awareness. Additional promotional actions willalso take place in order to spread GSHP technology and applications to all types of marketactors. To reach this goal, each intermediate and/or managing local body must assign acommunication expert for this task.The communication campaign is addressed in various target groups and levels. In thelocal level this can include domestic customers & individuals, regional development councilsand/or agencies, municipality personnel and local governors, institutions, chamber ofcommerce and industry, public & municipal buildings (schools, offices etc.), commercialsector, chamber of engineers, industries etc. In the national level, the communicationcampaign could be addressed in every ministry, national chambers, national authorities andagencies.21
Action 4:Reform the legislative framework to simplify bureaucratic proceduresand ensure minimum requirements for GSHP proper operation.Action 3 refers to the fostering of ongoing reforms in the field of GSHP systems. Aim ofthis Action Plan is to raise the capacity and to capitalize the knowledge obtained byGeo.Power project and positively influences the policy and process to increase theapplication of GCHP in the local level.In the last years, the aim of the Greek state was to promote the independent powerproduction with simultaneous emerging the indigenous RES exploitation and co-generation.Actually, the current legal framework incorporates the new trends of RES-Electricity (RES-E)market but at the same time contains significant omissions regarding the RES-Heating (RES-H) market. The main regulations and schemes concern more the RES-E market (Law2244/1994, law 2773/1999 for the electricity market liberalisation, law 3468/2006, law3734/2009 and law 3851/2010 for the acceleration of RES development and other measuresto cope with the climate change), rather than RES-H market. Regarding the heating andcooling energy, no FiT (Feed-in Tariff) provision referring to the private sector is made in theenacted law 3851/2010 for RES investments. On the contrary, this is provided for theelectricity production from RES-E systems. In addition the new Investment Law 3908/2011 ismore oriented to the new trends of RES market led by electricity production. However, thislaw combines a bundle of financial incentives such as tax releases on the pre-taxed profits (6years for existing enterprises and 8 years for new enterprises), selected capital investmentsubsidies under established terms and conditions and subsidies in leasing depending on thedevelopment target of each enterpriseThe legal framework for geothermal energy requires a revision with additionalregulations for accelerating the geothermal energy use and for the most effective reductionof the heavy bureaucracy. Currently, an amendment process of the basic geothermal Law(3175/2003, “Recovery the geothermal potential, district heating and other provisions") isbeing under consultation by replacing specific articles as well as the establishment of anadditional state enactment oriented to SGE use (being as final draft so far), which refers tothe own use of heating and cooling applications for exploitation the shallow geothermalenergy fields (i.e. groundwater and surface water that are not characterized as geothermalpotential). In the current law amendment, a detailed reference to various aspects of the lawis made concerning the procedure for granting an authorization (required supporting,22
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