International Energy Agency: Energy Conservation through Energy Storage Implementing Agreement (ECES IA)
- IA Text - 135 kB ).The full name of this IA is Energy Conservation though Energy Storage (ECES IA). Active participants in ECES IA include Belgium, Canada, Finland, Germany, Japan, Norway, Sweden, UK, USA and Turkey. Two sponsors are participa-ting in the ECES at the moment: IF Technology b.v. from the Netherlands and the Institute of Heat Engineering (ITC) of the University of Technology of Warsaw from Poland. Other countries have signed the agreement but are not presently engaged in the activities. Further countries have recently shown interest in participating in the near future, including countries from Eastern Europe.
- ECES Strategy Plan - 76 kB .Organisation of ECES IA
The work within the ECES IA is lead by an Executive Committee (XC) and the work undertaken by this XC is done by mutual agreements defined in Annexes. At present the ECES IA contains 26 different Annexes of which fourteen, Annex 1-14 and Annex 17-19 , have been terminated. Today there are seven active annexes:
Annex 20 Sustainable Cooling with Thermal Energy StorageAnnex 21 Thermal Response Test for Underground Thermal Energy Storages
Annex 22 Thermal Energy Storage for greenhouses
Annex 23 Applying Energy Storage in Ultra-low Energy Buildings
Annex 24 Material Development for Improved Thermal Energy Storage Systems
Annex 25 Surplus Heat Management Using Advanced Thermal Energy Storage
Annex 26 Electrical Energy Storage – Future Energy Storage Demand
The work is led by the Chairman Halime Paksoy (Turkey) ; and Secretary Hunay Evliya (Turkey). There are fifteen contracting parties in the ECES IA. There are five IEA R&D Working Parties under which a number of IAs are performed.