Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology
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| Abbreviation | REA |
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| Formation | 26 June 2001 |
| Type | Trade association |
| Legal status | Non-profit company (No. 04241430) |
| Purpose | Renewable energy industry in the UK |
| Headquarters | The Strand, London |
Region served | UK |
| Membership | c. 500 companies |
Chief Executive | Nina Skorupska |
Main organ | REA Board |
| Staff | 20-30 |
The Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology, previously known as Renewable Energy Association (REA), is a renewable energy and clean technology trade association in the UK encompassing all of renewables industry in the United Kingdom. REA claims to cover renewable power & flexibility, heat and cooling, circular bioresources and transport.[1] The REA is a not-for-profit company.[2]
History
The Renewable Power Association was established in 2001[3] as a not-for-profit trade association, representing British renewable energy producers and promoting the use of renewable energy in the UK. The company changed its name in November 2005 to Renewable Energy Association[3]. Renewable Energy Association was merged with the Association for Organics Recycling (AfOR) in September 2012,[2] the latter becoming the "Organics Recycling Group" under REA.[2] The Company name was officially changed again to The Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology in October 2019.[3]
Activities
Lobbying and Regulation
All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Energy Storage, for which the REA was the secretariat between its founding in July 2015 and its last registration in November 2019.[4]
All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Electric Vehicles, for which the REA is the secretariat since November 2017.[5]
Government Criticism
REA has been critical of the UK Governments' lack of funding for the production of electricity from organic waste[6], a failure to define policies to meet the European-wide energy targets[7], reductions to the Feed-in tariff and the lack of a robust framework for renewables[8] .
Safety
The REA provides guidance on health and safety at operational sites.[9]
Biofuels
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Biofuels are one area within REA's scope and some elements have proved controversial.[10] REA has reported significant reduction in greenhouse gases can be obtained by use of biofuels rather than fossil fuels.[11] In 2014 REA was criticised for encouraging reliance on large non renewable energy company members including the operators of Drax power station and Eggborough power station and lobbying to expand the use of food crops as biofuels including palm oil and soya.[10][disputed (for: This criticism may misrepresent some REA's position on food biofuels) – discuss]
Electric vehicles
EA, through its subsidiary, launched the UK's first Electric Vehicle Consumer Code (EVCC) in 2020, a voluntary scheme for domestic charge point installers.[12]
Electricity grid
On 21 September 2021 REA published its report Energy Transition Readiness Index 2021 and warned that urgent action was needed make the UK Electricity grid more flexible to cate for more variable types of energy coming online, one of the points raised that as electricity storage facilities were treated as generators and charge both for transmission of electricity to and from the storage over the grid which was a disincentive for investment in the technology.[13]
References
- ^ "About Us". REA. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ a b c "AfOR members approve merger with REA". letsrecycle.com. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ a b c "THE ASSOCIATION FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AND CLEAN TECHNOLOGY overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ "House of Commons Register Of All-Party Parliamentary Groups as at 11 September 2019: Energy Storage".
- ^ "House of Commons: Register Of All-Party Parliamentary Groups as at 25 August 2021: Electric Vehicles".
- ^ "Waste not... Britain is lagging behind other countries in renewable". The Independent. 21 February 2010. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ "UK pressure groups laud new climate change ministry". Reuters. 3 October 2008. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ "Clean technology sector suffering crisis of confidence". the Guardian. 1 June 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2022.
- ^ "UK Health and Safety Executive - Composting - Recycling biodegradable waste".
- ^ a b Bastable 2014.
- ^ Xiyan 2020, p. 4.
- ^ FleetNews 2020.
- ^ GridBeyond 2021.
External Links
Sources
- Bastable, Sophie (7 April 2014). "Fighting the Big Biomass Baddies". theecologist.org. The Ecologist. Retrieved 7 April 2014.
- Fleetnews (3 March 2020). "UK's first EV Consumer Code launched". fleetnews.co.uk. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
- GridBeyond (October 2021). "Urgent action needed on grid flexibility, says REA". GridBeyond.com. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - Xiyan, Li (2020). Kær, Søren Knudsen; Condra, Thomas Joseph (eds.). CFD modeling of biomass thermo-chemical conversion and its experimental study (PDF) (PhD thesis). Aalborg University. ISBN 978-87-7210-676-2.
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