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Workshop de-briefing
“Working with Disclosure: How
to label electricity”
held
on 19th May 2003 at the DTI, London
The 4CE Project
team would like to thank all participates for helping
to make our workshop on “Working with disclosure” a
big success. We certainly learned a great deal and
hope everyone can agree that despite some of the complexities
we are making good progress towards electricity disclosure
implementation in Europe.
There were many good discussions
during the day which we have tried to capture in a
workshop debriefing paper.
Given the richness of the debates we are making these
results public. The de-briefing begins with an overall
summary of points that we as the 4CE team learned from
the workshop, followed by the rapporteurs’ notes
from the three afternoon discussion sessions. Also
included at the end of the pack is the list of the
participants who attended the workshop. Please download
the paper here.
Several presentations were made during
the day which are also available as PDF files:
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Introduction
and welcome, Brenda Boardman
(pdf, 74KB)
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Disclosure
and other policy, John
Green
(pdf, 221KB)
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Implementation
and tracking issues, Christof Timpe
(pdf, 1.35MB)
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Results
from the consumer research, Anders Arvidson
(pdf, 683KB)
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Status
of the EU Directive, Katrien Prins
(pdf, 160KB)
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Summary
and next steps, Brenda Boardman
(pdf, 240KB)
Phase 2 Press release
New survey results:
Consumers want environmental impact information with
their electricity bills
A recent survey conducted by
the Altener funded 4CE project has found that “ 80%
of domestic consumers want to see environmental impact
information with their
electricity bills”.
The labelling provision of
the proposed European Directive on liberalised electricity
markets, drafted before
the results of the survey, does not currently oblige
electricity suppliers to make the environmental information
available with the bill, but only on a web site.
“This amendment is critically
important“ according
to Dr. Boardman of Oxford University’s Environmental
Change Unit. “The telephone survey found that
only 39% of domestic customers and 48% of Small and
Medium Enterprises say they would visit such a web
site, so this crucial information would not even reach
half the population!”
Links to pdf files
Press
release Details
of recommended changes to the Directive
Phase 1 Policy Report and Workshop
Phase 1 of the 4CE project is now completed.
A policy document 4CE
Phase 1 Policy Report (1,060KB) has been produced
and a full Phase 1 report will be ready in a few
weeks.
This will include an Appendix of all countries in
the EU and will also be available on this site.
The first project workshop was successfully
held in Berlin on 11th September 2002, attracting participants
from a range of countries and backgrounds including
government representatives, regulators, electricity
suppliers, consumer groups, environmental organisations
and researchers. The focus of the workshop was an exchange
of experiences from Europe and beyond. Presentations
were given by an equally diverse mix and resulted in
a very productive discussion. The workshop material
is available for you here, including:
A summary of the 4C Electricity project
is available as a downloadable
brochure (1,690KB).
This project started in January 2002,
and the web site was launched in March. It is updated
periodically.
If you do not have Acrobat Reader to
view the files, you can download
Acrobat Reader free. 
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