Interpares

On March 23, 2012 from 14:30 to 18:30 (Room Tirreno hall 4) the Fair EnergyMed of Naples hosted the conference “Paths of administrative simplification: the InterPARES Project.”
EnergyMed is a well known international fair on renewable and energy efficiency: a most fitting scenario to present the first results on the simplification of administrative procedures for renewable energy produced by the project Interpares, lead by UPI, the Union of Italian Provinces.

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This year in Tuscany there is an important meeting for sustainable Italian local authorities, on the occasion of the Twelfth Meeting of the Italian Local Agenda 21.On 8th and 9th April in Siena municipalities, provinces and regions throughout Italy met for two days of debates and discussions.
“Climate change, territorial government, Green Economy” is the title of the event that addressed the most topical issues on sustainability in several parallel sessions. During the conference national and international projects were presented, including the project InterPARES, introduced by Silvano Falocco CEO of  Ecosistemi.

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The Romanian national conference on “Simplifying administrative procedures for the authorization of renewable energy installations” took place in Bucharest on 10-11 March 2011. The event gathered over 60 participants representing County Councils, central authorities (ministries and national agencies), local energy agencies, associations of local authorities and renewable energy producers. The purpose of the conference was to develop knowledge and awareness of County Councils’ representatives regarding the state of play of renewable energy production, investments and related legislation, the potential institutional changes to be made in order to improve the mechanisms to authorize RES-e production and the companies’ perspective on the topic. Moreover, the event was a perfect occasion for County Councils to present examples of good practices regarding the methods already used to encourage the production and investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency.

The Government was represented by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and the Business Environment and by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, together with the National Energy Regulation Authority and the National Environmental Protection Agency. The national and European energy policy topic was covered by Mrs. Lavinia Andrei, a highly experienced NGO leader, supported by Mrs. Liliana Mangeac, the representative of UNCJR in Brussels. The role of County Councils in developing the framework for and authorizing RES installations was explained by Mr. Adrian Badila, president of ALMA-RO, who also facilitated the entire meeting. Following the presentation of the Bucharest Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Agency on how to improve the existing legislation and procedures locally, three representatives of energy producers and their association (wind power, solar power and geothermal) expressed their points of view regarding critical aspects to improve when authorizing RES installations.

Following the event, a fifth County Council asked for permission to become one of the local authorities receiving technical support and counseling to implement simplified procedures for RES authorization, that will be dealt with in the next phase of the project. Also, several clear measures to be implemented both locally and nationally were expressed (one of them coming from the National Energy regulation Authority).

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video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrKo-lXvWWo

INTERPARES CONFERENCE – THE PERMIT PROCESS FOR RES-POWERED PLANTS: THE FIRST STEPS IN ADMINISTRATIVE SIMPLIFICATION

The first of the three national conferences planned for Project INTERPARES was held on February 8th-9th, 2011.
The same two-session event will be repeated in two other venues (Romania and Greece).
On day one, the attending Provinces gathered a variety of information from the main players in the construction permit procedure for plants powered by RES (renewable energy resources). The Ministry for Economic Development, Enel, Terna, GSE and national Associations for renewable resources each provided fundamental insights into recent regulatory developments in the area. The Coordinator of Regions for Energy also discussed the pivotal role of the Regions for the procedures in question.
In the last part of session one, institutions and various representatives from the world of industry, artisanship, and agriculture shared relevant experiences and combined their contributions into a document presenting operational proposals for administrative procedures.
During session two, which focused more on issues of functionality, several Provinces shared their own experiences with simplification. In the next project phase, data gleaned from these experiences will provide a concrete foundation for preparing and analyzing the proposed testing to be held in at least twelve different Italian Provinces.

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