The project aims at a successful demonstration of new ultra-low emission small-scale biomass heating systems, which should then define a new milestone regarding low emission residential biomass combustion systems. Moreover, the project intends to provide inputs and recommendations for the future definition of reduced emission limits.

 

In order to critically follow the work within the project and to discuss the project results and achievements with international authorities active in legislation making regarding emission limits as well as with experts of standardization bodies and test laboratories, an international mirror group has been formed. Not only representatives from the countries represented by the project partners but also from other EU-countries as well as European organisations active in this field have been invited to participate in this mirror group.

Members of the European Network (Mirror Group)

Organisation/Institution		Surname / Name	Country
European Commission	DG ENER	José Riesgo Villanueva	EU
European Commission	DG ENER	Ewout Deurwaarder	EU
European Commission	DG ENER	Marcos González Álvarez	EU
European Commission	DG ENV	Guido de Wilt	EU
National authority	Danish Environmental Protection Agency	Charlotte von Hessberg	DK
National authority	ADEME	Roland Gerard	FR
National authority	German Federal Environment Agency (UBA)	Anja Behnke	DE
National authority	Institute of Thermal Technology Silesian University of Technology	Robert Kubica	PL
Industrial association	HKI / CEFACD	Frank Kienle	DE
Industrial association	EHI / BDH	Wilfried Linke	DE
Research institute / Testing Lab	SP-Technical Research Institute of Sweden	Lennart Gustavsson	SE
Standardisation body or test laboratory	BLT Wieselburg	Leopold Lasselsberger	AT
Standardisation body or test laboratory	The Krakow Institute for Sustainable Energy (KISE)	Adam Gula	PL
Standardisation body or test laboratory	INERIS	Jean Poulleau	FR
Standardisation body or test laboratory	Ricardo-AEA	Robert Stewart	UK

 

The mirror group receives regular updates about the progress of the project and is invited to participate in two dedicated workshops.

The 1^st workshop took place on the 28^th of November 2012 in Brussels (Belgium). The ULD project was presented to the mirror group, the technologies demonstrated in the project were introduced and first results were discussed. Furthermore, a comparison of the ULD technologies with BAU (business as usual) and BAT (best available technologies) in terms of environmental performance were presented and discussed.

The final results achieved within the project as well as specific policy proposals have been discussed during the 2^nd workshop in Brussels on the 3^rd of December 2013.