Dutch Energy and Environmental Policy - Air Quality

EGTEI

EGTEI is a UNECE / CLRTAP Expert Group which aims at improving knowledge on emission reduction costs through a database that has been established particularly for the purpose of producing cost data as a modelling input.

EGTEI aims at assessing costs of emission reduction techniques and providing input data to determine total costs for a given sector of activity, depending on various emission reduction scenarios based on technology different rates of penetration.

EGTEI approach offers several possibilities:

1. To improve the representation of de-pollution technology costs for a given sector,
2. To reduce uncertainties by working together with the relevant industry stakeholders,
3. To check traceability of data used,
4. To insure compatibility with the Regional Air Pollution Information and Simulation (RAINS) model.

Finally, the approach improves understanding of aggregated data used in RAINS.

With EGTEI, an emission reduction costs database has been designed.
In this database, each activity sector is represented by one or more reference plants, characterized by different parameters : capacity, annual operating hours, production process, combustion technology used, fuel consumption, production data, flow rates of emissions, plants lifetime, etc.
In order to facilitate the national experts' work, it has been necessary to find an equilibrium between the most accurate description of a given sector and the need to minimise statistical data to be collected for costs assessment.

See for more information the expert site or contact Koen Smekens