In order to run a highly efficient and successful network project of this type, careful consideration has been given to its composition.  Partners were carefully selected to give a consortium with expertise in all the main renewable energy and micro-CHP technologies.  Other specialist members were chosen for their expertise in the field of market analysis, web design, or for their experience within the general renewable energy field.  The proposed consortium is well balanced and will allow for the maximum integration of knowledge, expertise, and experience between partners, and has the technical and market expertise for the analysis and integration of technologies with the highest potential for market penetration.  In order to obtain a diverse field of expertise and increase the project’s chance for effective dissemination and exploitation, the consortium comprises a mix of SMEs, universities, research institutes and larger industries.

The consortium is made up of twenty-six partners from twelve different member states or candidate countries, making it truly transnational in character. Eleven members of the consortium are SMEs, seven are universities, five are research institutes and the remaining three are trade associations or similar special interest groups.  Most of the members have been involved in European projects before, many of which are directly related to renewable energy systems or to micro-CHP.  This will allow for cohesion with existing projects and networks, minimise overlap of research objectives, and maximise the potential and efficiency of the European effort for the implementation of renewable micro-CHP.

The details of the participating organisations, and their key personnel who will provide expert knowledge to the project, are detailed in the partner descriptions below. 

1: Chalex Research Ltd. (UK, IND)                 Chalex is a small UK research organisation, which has been involved in building prototype systems and commercial products using thermoelectric technology for many years.  The company is responsible for developing many novel thermoelectric modules using unique manufacturing routes, which has allowed the company to perfect the production of a TE device with an integrated thermoelectric/heat exchange design.  The company has extensive experience of co-ordinating research and development projects, such as Thermocool, and has been actively involved in previous FP5 thematic networks.  It will shortly begin work on a collective research project in the field of distributed generation: GenDis.  The company will act as project co-ordinator and will be responsible for fulfilling all of the contractual deliverables (e.g. reporting requirements).  The company will benefit from the results of the network through exploitation of the knowledge gained in its data acquisition and analysis business, and will make valuable new business contacts.

Drs. Mark Pullinger and Bruce Napier, two of the company’s research project managers, will oversee Chalex’s contribution.  Between them, they are currently acting as co-ordinators of four live projects, and overseeing  three in negotiation.  They have considerable project management experience and will be able to ensure the network successfully meets its goals.  They will be assisted in this by support staff at Chalex, as required.

2: Sustainable Technology Solutions Ltd. (UK, IND)                  STSL, a spin-off of De Montfort University, has worked conscientiously over a 20-year period to become a leading centre for conducting and applying research in the fields of energy and alternative technology. The Group’s core research activities are focused towards combined energy generating system design, anaerobic digestion, wind energy, gasification, grid connection and combined heat and power systems.  The main network representative will be Dr. Duncan Child, who has extensive experience within the field of hybrid renewable energy systems (particularly those linked to waste), and has been involved in previous EC-funded projects.  He is co-founder of STSL. His doctoral research project investigated the long term performance modelling of combined energy generation systems. He has previously worked for the De Montfort University and  Danfoss Ltd., as a technical sales engineer for pressure jet burner controls.  He also served in the Royal Navy as a senior non-commissioned officer, where I had experience of operating, maintaining and repairing electrical generating systems and steam propulsion units. I am a chartered engineer and am a member of both the Energy Institute and the Institution of Electrical Engineers.  His colleague, Dr. Karl Seare, former head of the engineering department at De Montfort University, will also participate in the project.  His primary research interests have been  the development of sustainable energy systems and engine technology.

3: Dk-Teknik Energi & Miljø (DK, IND) DK Teknik is an Technological Service Institute approved by the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.  It is a well-established private, non-profit, self-owned institute that has completed many national and international RTD projects.  The main fields of activity are sustainable energy efficiency and process improvement, air pollution and its sources, including fuels, processes and residues and integrated environmental and product assessment.  The team working with thermal processes, biomass and waste has been one of the most important groups in Denmark working with wood and straw for energy since the mid 1980s.  DK Teknik is project co-ordinator for various CHP related projects and is experienced in managing projects of this kind and size. 

Mr. Martin Fock will supervise DK Teknik’s participation.  He is an expert in CHP production from straw and wood, with special knowledge on small scale solutions.  Other key skills are practical experiences in designing, construction, building and testing of complete systems converting biomass in to CHP.  He has managed several large EC projects aimed at developing CHP solutions. He will be assisted by Mr. Anders Evald, senior project manager of the Bio-CHP project.  He has been programme manager for the Centre for Biomass Technology for six years. Other key personnel will be Ms. Nina Jensen, who has been working closely with the Danish Energy Agency for two years on the national Follow-up Programme for small-scale CHP production on Solid Biofuels; and Mr. Morten Tony Hansen, a specialist within biomass energy.  His expertise is in both technology and economical and environmental assessments.  He also has extensive experience of disseminating knowledge within bioenergy.

4: EA Technology Ltd. (UK, IND) EAT is at the forefront, working with utilities and their suppliers around the world to help define their clients’ roles within a rapidly changing utility market.  The company is a multidisciplinary technology development company with a world-class reputation for delivering innovative business solutions to companies that supply, distribute and use energy. The company was originally formed as the R&D centre for the UK electricity industry in the 1960s. It has over 30 years experience working for its world-wide clients; this experience is supported by unrivalled technical and scientific facilities.  EA Technology has evolved into a global technology and service provider.  Mr. Stephen Holmes, business development manager, will oversee the company’s participation.

5: Association pour la Recherche et le Développement des Méthodes et Processus Industriels (F, HE) ARMINES has a history stretching back over two hundred years.  It has undergone many changes in that time and now teaches a broad range of sciences and techniques of value to engineers, including economics and social sciences.  The Centre d’Energétique will participate in this project.  Prof. François-Pascal Neirac, scientific manager, will allow the school’s considerable expertise of advanced modelling of complex energetic systems to this project.

6: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sonnenenergie (D, OTH) DGS is part of the International Solar Energy Society a multi-faceted, global organisation. Funded in 1954, it is today the largest organisation in the field of research, use and promotion of Renewable Energy technology world-wide. More than 30,000 members in over 100 countries constitute the body politic of ISES.  Due to the abundant resources of ISES, it is active in all areas of renewable energy technologies so will form a backbone to the researching of the technological links between renewable energy systems and micro-CHP.  It will also be able to aid in the investigations and possible exploitations at an international level. 

Mr. Jan Kai Dobelmann studied engineering in the cities of Karlsruhe and Weimar, obtaining a Diploma in civil engineering and a Master of Science in environmental studies. He began his professional career in the department of ecology at the Neustadt agricultural research centre, being responsible for waste stream characterisation and energy efficiency. During this time, seven international patents in the field of renewable energies and combined waste treatment were filed.  He is currently managing director of sesolutions, a research oriented enterprise specialising in renewable energy projects. He is also vice president of the German Section of the International Solar Energy Society, DGS, responsible for the scientific fields of biomass and co-generation.

7: Enervac-Flutec Ltd. (EL, IND) EneFeL is a company focused in software and services. Among its main activities are the distribution and technical support of state-of-the-art specialized engineering software and services specialised in engineering consulting and in Research projects. The firm is rapidly expanding and becoming a well known centre of excellence in its region and abroad.  The company’s main areas of expertise include participation in product and process development, high quality computation, energy conservation and cogeneration of heat and power, energy usage of waste by-products, industrial ventilation and HVAC, field measurement and testing for trouble-shooting, and energy auditing and total energy management.  Its main role in this project will be the provision of expertise relating to CHP from waste energy.

Dr. Athanasios Katsanevakis will be the main representative for EneFeL. He is a Mechanical Engineer, with a Dipl. Ing. from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, as well as an Eng.D. from the Chemical and Process Engineering Department, University of Surry, UK. He has 15 years experience on design, management and implementation of energy investments, as well as on energy saving related equipment testing.  He will be assisted by Dimitrios Konstantinidis, a Chemical Engineer, with a Dipl. Ing. from Aristotle University, who has participated in several EU funded projects and has considerable experience in using specialised software (e.g. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)) to assist final design of equipment and processes.  Joseph Katsanevakis, a Chemical Engineer, with a Dipl. Ing. from Aristotle University will also be involved in the project.  For the last 15 years, he has worked with Greek and foreign companies in the design, management and implementation of energy investments. He has a lot of experience in the design and set-up of laboratory testing of energy related equipment.

8: WBI Technology Ltd. (IRL, IND) WBI is an Irish SME.  The company is not directly involved with CHP or renewable energy, but has been brought into the consortium for its IT expertise.  It will work on the project web site and research databases, for which its experience in previous projects will be invaluable.  Mr. Matthew Bretherick will represent the company in this project

9:Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederlands (NL, RTO) ECN is the leading institute for energy research in the Netherlands, and carries out basic and applied research in the fields of nuclear energy, fossil fuels, renewable energy sources, policy studies, environmental aspects of energy supply and the development and application of new materials. It employs more than 600 staff and has been involved in a number of European and international research projects.  The ECN scientific and technical staff is dedicated to the ECN mission: contributing to a clean and reliable energy supply for a viable world.

Mr. Ruud van der Woude will be the researcher in charge of ECN’s contribution.  He has, for the past four years, been involved in the Enatec Stirling powered micro-cogeneration programme. Prior to this, he gained experience at ECN’s system assessment department, assessing and promoting new developments in the fields of cogeneration, fuel processing and hydrogen powered energy systems.

10: Aston University (UK, HE) The Bio-Energy Research Group as Aston is one of the largest university research groups in the world working on thermal biomass conversion.  The aim of the group is to apply chemical engineering science and technology to the development of advanced processes for the production of liquid fuels, gaseous fuels, chemicals and electricity from natural resources and wastes.  The current activities of the Bio-Energy Research Group are focused on thermal processing by fast pyrolysis and gasification with complementary work on biomass pretreatment including drying, system design and technical and economic evaluation.  Aston is also the co-ordinator of a global network of active researchers and developers of fast pyrolysis of biomass known as PyNe (Pyrolysis Network), which gives it an excellent range of contacts in the field. 

The group’s head, Prof. Tony Bridgwater, will allow this excellent range of experience and contacts to be brought to this project.  He obtained his first degree in Chemical Engineering from UMIST followed by his PhD and DSc from Aston.  Most of his professional career has been spent at Aston University where he leads the Bio-Energy Research Group and heads the Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry Department.  His current interests are focused on the development of both the technologies for fast pyrolysis of biomass and the fuel and chemical products that can be derived from the liquids.  He will be assisted by Dr. John Brammer, who specialises in thermal energy systems analysis, including process modelling, techno-economic analysis and environmental life cycle assessment.  He also has a strong interest in conversion reactor design and the application of CFD to the design and development process.  His main focus is bio-energy systems (include waste-to-energy systems), but he is also interested in fossil and co-fired systems.

11: University of Lund (S, HE) Since its start, 5 years ago, the aim of the Competence Centre for Combustion Processes as Lund has been to pursue high quality research and development in the fields of diagnostics and modelling of combustion processes of relevance for industrial processes. Activities at the Centre are based on the scientific tradition of the Combustion Centre at the Lund Institute of Technology.  Its expertise in Stirling engine and combustion, particularly of biomass, will be invaluable to this project. 

Dr. Magnus Pålsson will be the main representative in MicroCHeaP.  He was born in 1964, and holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering specialised in Energy Technology and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Combustion Engines.  He wrote his thesis on combustion systems for Stirling Engines.  He has 12 years experience in Stirling engine technology and engine development. He is employed as Assistant Professor at Lund University, working with Stirling engine technology focused on combustion systems. He has developed ultra-low emission gaseous fuel combustion systems for a micro-CHP Stirling unit and for a sun-powered Stirling engine. He is currently involved in the development of a 200 kW wood powder fuelled burner for Stirling engines.

12: The Centre for Renewable Energy Sources (EL, RTO) CRES is the Greek national centre for RES, Rational Use of Energy (RUE) and Energy Saving (ES). Its main goal is the promotion of RES/RUE/ES applications at a national and international level, taking into consideration the environmental impact, in the production and use of energy. Over the years, CRES has participated in more than 500 European and national projects. In carrying out these projects, CRES has cooperated with a large number of public and private organisations, on a national as well as on a European and international level.  It has expertise in fuel cell technology, and its role in this project will be to help investigate combinations of micro-CHP and fuel cells.

Dr. Nicolas Lymberopoulos has been actively involved in the field of energy and the environment for more than 15 years. As a researcher,  he has undertaken work for the development of turbomachinery components for the automotive (turbochargers), aviation and power industries (gas turbines). As a chartered engineer he has been involved in various projects related to power generation from conventional or renewable energy sources, as well as to their impact to the environment.  In his current position at CRES, he initiated and is responsible for the management of a section within CRES involved in R&TD related to the energetic use of hydrogen and in particular the integration of technologies for the production, storage and use of Hydrogen (including fuel cells) with Renewable Energy Technologies.   He will be assisted by Dr. Emmanuel Zoulias, who is involved in the integration of RES & Hydrogen Technologies (production, storage and energetic use of hydrogen), as well as fuel cells. He is also involved in issues related to the market penetration of hydrogen technologies in the energy field.

13: BTG Biomass Technology Group B.V (NL, IND) BTG Biomass Technology Group BV is a private firm of consultants, researchers and engineers, established in 1979.  Its specialism is in sustainable energy production from biomass and waste. The firm works world-wide and has experience in over 60 countries.  It has nearly doubled in size over the last three years and now has a permanent staff of over 30.  The company is convinced that biomass holds the key to solving the world’s energy problems and its input to this project will be related mainly to this topic.  Dr. Douwe van den Berg will bring his knowledge and expertise to the project.

14: Fördergesellschaft Erneuerbare Energien e.V. (D, OTH) FEE is a non-profit, non-governmental transregional association of innovative institutions, mostly SMEs, scientific institutions and experts doing business in the fields of energy efficiency, the application of technologies of renewable energetic resources, the use of energy and industrial crops as well as new environmental technologies with special emphasis on water.  It is lobbying in favour of regional, national and international strategies of energy efficiency and application of energy from renewable resources. Specific fields of activities are energetic use of biomass, including gasification of wood and methanisation of biowaste, solar building, economizing the use of energy, application of renewable energy to highly efficient water purification plants, CHP generation, as well as cooling.   Mr. Eberhard Öttel, chairman of the board, will be responsible for fulfilling FEE’s work in this project.

15: Gaia Group Oy (FIN, IND) GAIA is a leading environmental and energy consulting company with a profound insight into sustainability. The services and products of GAIA are aimed at industrial and service companies as well as public organisations. Its competence covers consulting and RTD, as well as training and communications.  GAIA’s services include concept design, calculation services, technology services, and financial services.  It is participating in this project largely for its experience with market surveys and studies.

Gaia’s representatives will be Dr. Juha Vanhanen and Mr. Jari Hiltunen.  Dr. Vanhanen is Gaia’s managing director. He specialises in economic evaluation of energy companies and utilities, and has carried out numerous benchmarking studies on energy companies as well as feasibility studies of individual cases. He has broad knowledge on technology assessment, renewable energy sources and environmental-friendly energy technology, combined heat and power systems as well as on decentralized energy systems. His work has focused on solar energy, energy storage, fuel cells and hydrogen technology.  Mr. Hiltunen is the Marketing Director responsible for business development and sales of the energy sector. He has long experience in international business, especially project sales and management for pulp and paper industry. His competence covers different energy solutions and the sales and opening of markets for new energy applications. He has a wide network of contacts in the energy sector to different companies and organisations nationally as well as internationally.

16: National Technical University of Athens (EL, RTD) The Centre for Solid Fuels Technology and Applications, part of NTUA, is the main Greek organisation for the promotion of RTD aimed at the improved and integrated exploitation of solid fuels and their by-products.  It acts as consultant to the Greek Government, Public Power Corporation (PPC), the Institute of Geological and Mineral Exploration (IGME) and to any other company or organisation involved in the solid fuel sector and is actively involved in the Governmental planning for energy generation and industrial development.  Its expertise in solid fuels and technology transfer, along with its market surveying experience, makes it an ideal candidate for inclusion in this consortium. 

Assoc. Prof. Emmanouil Kakaras is the head of the Laboratory of Steam Boilers and Thermal Plants since 1993 and General Manager of CSFTA since May 1999.  He has more than 10 years of experience on power production, emissions and environmental issues and on coal utilisation related topics.  He has experience with the use of biomass as alternative fuel and has coordinated the study for the use of olive-stones as supplementary fuel in Power stations.  He has more than 5 years’ experience in Environmental Management Systems and Audits and he was in charge of the first pilot implementation of the EC Directive 1836/93 on EMAS for Greece.  He also has extensive experience on Energy Efficiency projects including energy audits, M+T, energy saving campaigns in numerous Greek and international industries. He has more than 100 publications in scientific Journals and conferences.

17: Technology Codes Ltd. (IRL, IND) Codes is an SME that provides services for the development of codes of practice and international standards. The company has highly specialised knowledge, which makes it invaluable for this network.  Codes has extensive experience of EC-funded research projects, especially thematic networks.  It will play a very active role in helping the co-ordination of the network, investigating standards, market sizes, other research projects and legislation.  Mr. John Purse will oversee the company’s contribution.

18: Energy Consulting Network (DK, IND) EC Net is a Danish company, comprising of energy consultants and planners, with world wide connections to other energy experts. With fifteen years of industrial experience, the company has the expertise and the experience to provide assistance at every stage of the process in energy and environmental projects, from strategy development to actual commissioning of organisational and technical measures. The main representative for the EC Net will be Mr. Lars Moeller, who is an experienced technical and financial expert. His international experience and know-how comes in particular from the design, procurement, production, establishment, commissioning, operation, service and maintenance of conventional and renewable energy systems, co-generation, district heating, cooling, energy saving and energy conservation in industrial companies and buildings. He has been the technical manager for one of the leading DH pipe producers in Denmark.

19: Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme (D, RTO) The Institute for Solar Energy Systems (FhG-ISE), based in Freiburg, is part of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the largest alliance of research institutes in Europe.  The Institute develops components, materials and processes in the areas of the thermal use of solar energy, solar building, solar cells, electrical power supplies, chemical energy conversion, energy storage and the rational use of energy.  With a staff of approximately 295, the ISE at Fraun is the largest solar energy research institute in Europe.  It has considerable expertise in linking solar power with other energy sources, which makes it invaluable to this project. 

Dr.-Ing. Andreas Bühring, who was born in 1962 in Hamburg, is leader of the group “HVAC in residential buildings” in the department for thermal and optical systems in FhG-ISE.  He has been working at the institute since 1996 and is an expert in the fields of heating and ventilation in high performance houses, heat pumps and CHP systems and their couplings with solar thermal systems. He is manager of several projects concerned with “developing new ventilation systems with integrated heat production for solar passive houses”, “comparison of different stationary fuel cell systems with alternative heat and power systems”, “integration and best control of micro CHP-systems” and “testing of new developed heating systems for solar passive houses on test site and in occupied residential buildings”. In his projects where developed new simulation models for heat pumps, PEM fuel cells with external reformers, SOFCs with internal reformers and for Stirling motors.

20: Institut Für Solare Energieversorgungs Technik e.V. (D, RTO) ISET is engaged in applications-oriented RTD in the areas of RES and the efficient use of energy.  Activities include theoretical investigations, experimental studies, field tests and the development of components and systems.  Within the framework of scientific projects and industrial partnerships, the focus is on electrical and systems engineering. ISET concentrates primarily on wind energy, photovoltaics, biomass energy, energy conversion and storage, hybrid systems, energy economy, and information and training.  This broad range of expertise means that ISE has much to contribute to the project. 

Dr. Bernd Krautkremer will represent the institute.  He trained as a mechanical engineer at Darmstadt University of Technology from 1989 until 2001, when he obtained his Ph.D.  From 2001 to 2002, he served as project manager in the department of energetic use of biomass at ISET.  In November 2003, he was promoted to head of department.  He will be assisted in this project by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schmid, professor of efficient energy conversion at the University Gesamthochschule Kassel and chairman of the board of directors at ISET.  During  his distinguished career, he has been professor of sustainable production of electrical energy at Karlsruhe University, whilst serving Head of Department in Freiburg at the same time.  Prior to this, he headed the Department of System Engineering at ISE, was project Manager at Dornier System, Friedrichshafen and was a scientist at the Institute for Nuclear Process Engineering at the Nuclear Research Centre, Karlsruhe.

21: Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (I, HE) IUAV is an Italian university.  Prof. Fabio Peron’s group has been active in CHP research since the 1980s and his participation will bring an invaluable Italian perspective to this project.  Prof. Fabio Peron, graduated in Chemical Engineering at the University of Padova in 1991 and obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering in 1995. He is Professor of Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer at IUAV. He has written more than 70 scientific papers and is a member of sub-committee no. 1, “Heat Transfer and Fluid-dynamics” of CTI (Italian Thermo-technic Committee), and of sub-committee no. 5 “Ventilation”. His main research fields are: building physics, thermal and energetic behaviour of buildings and HVAC systems, heat and mass transfer measurements of indoor air parameters.  He will be assisted in this project by Prof. Luigi Schibuola, who graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Padova and is Professor of “Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer” at IUAV. He is the author of more than 100 scientific papers.  He is also a member of WG 6 within CEN/TC89 “Thermal performance of buildings and building components”, a member of sub-committee nos. 1, 5 and 6 of CTI. His main research fields are building physics, thermal and energetic behaviour of buildings and HVAC systems, CHP plants, Heat pumps, Condensation boilers.

22: Syddansk Universitet (DK, HE) SDU’s Centre for Biotechnology and Bioenergy, originally founded in 1988, is now a collaboration with the University of Aalborg.  Its research is focused on industrial biotechnology and bioenergy, particularly microbiology.  Mr. Jens Bo Holm-Nielsen will represent SDU in this project.  His research interests are in biomass characterisation and the use of biomass for anaerobic digestion, biogas production and/or other bioenergy conversions, all of which will be helpful in this project.

23: ÅF Group (S, IND) AF is a major Swedish consultancy company within the energy sector.  It has a good knowledge of the specific situation in Sweden, and also in other Nordic countries.  Dr. Magnus Berg is an expert in CHP, and his presence will be of considerable benefit to the project, particularly the market survey tasks.  He is department manager and responsible for research into Heat, Power and Combustion Technology.  he has over 10 years of industrial experience and has been leader of a large number of projects within the areas of combustion, gasification and applied catalysis. Many projects have been directed towards waste combustion, renewable energy as well as utilisation of the waste products from combustion processes (ash handling).  Dr. Berg is a member of the steering committee for two different research programmes sponsored by the Swedish Thermal Engineering Research Institute, Combustion Technology and Ash Utilisation. He is the author or co-author to almost 20 different scientific publications presented in international journals or international conferences and is also a well-known lecturer at national and international conferences.

24: Universitat de Barcelona (E, HE) UB was founded in 1450.  It is the oldest and largest of the six universities in Barcelona, and of the ten in Catalonia. It has 74,000 students, making it the largest in Spain.  It awards 450 Ph.D. degrees each year.  It manages about 150 European projects per year, totalling €19.3 million.  The Department of Chemical Engineering has considerable experience in the use of biogas and it is this expertise, specifically supplied by Prof. Joan Mata Alvarez, that will be brought to the project.

25: BEAMA Ltd. (UK, OTH) BEAMA, the British Electrotechnical and Allied Manufacturers' Association was founded in 1905, and is a national grouping consisting of fourteen associations representing some three hundred and fifty companies in the electrotechnical and allied manufacturing industries in the UK.  It is the co-ordinator for the electrotechnical industry with UK government and its European counterparts.  It has a keen interest in the development of micro-CHP, particularly to discover how it will affect its SME members.  Its role in the project will largely be that of an end-user.

Dr. John Parsons will be BEAMA’s representative in this project.  He has extensive experience in distributed power generation and energy systems.  During his career he has worked with a wide range of small prime movers, including Stirling engines, fuel cells, gas engines, gas turbines and organic Rankine Cycles.  He led the development of a Stirling engine based micro-CHP appliance at Advantica Ltd. for over 10 years, including field trialling and connection issues.  In recognition of his expertise, he was the Chairman of the SBGI DCHP Technical Committee from 2001 to 2003.   During his career at Advantica, he was also responsible for a number of small scale CHP projects, as well as leading the company’s solid oxide fuel cell programme.  He was, for a time, also responsible for the renewables programme there.  He is currently managing a UK government-funded project aimed at collecting generation profile data for domestic-CHP, PV, micro-wind and micro-hydro installations with a view to developing simpler mechanisms for metering and rewarding power exports.

26: Slovenská Pol’nohospodárska Univerzita v Nitre (SK, HE) SPUN was founded in 1946 and has a special position among twenty-one Slovakian state universities, as the only agricultural university.  It has four faculties: the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering will participate in this project.  Dr. Ján Gaduš, associate professor in the Department of Mechanics and Engineering, will represent SPUN.  He has extensive previous experience of FP5 RTD projects, and will bring expertise in biogas and micro-CHP to the project.