Data gathering on renewable energies for new member states and candidate countries : proceedings of the workshop, 13-15 November 2007, Istanbul , Turkey

This document contains the Proceedings of the Workshop "Data Gathering on Renewable Energies for New Member States and Candidate Countries", which was held on 13-15 November 2007 in Istanbul, Turkey. This workshop was the fourth workshop dedicated to data collection on the Renewable Energies in New Member States and Candidate Countries, after the ones held in Malta, Cyprus and Croatia in 2004, 2005 and 2006, respectively. Considering the ambitious targets proposed by the European Council, as well as the current level of RES share in European Union, all the member states and candidates countries must take major actions and move towards significant changes in the current RES approaches. In this light, the workshop was aimed to contribute to tackle the challenges of the ambitious proposed targets of 2020 that need changes in the development of RES support policies. The workshop focused on updating the existing data on RES deployment status, existing demonstration projects, costs as well as latest technologies changes and developments. The workshop objectives were to look into detail on the following issues: status, progress and trends for RES, implementation issues, renewable energy policies and support schemes and country visions for the future RES actions required, addressing the 2020 targets.