TEXXECURE Rating Foundation gGmbH
Budget
€50,000
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
2
0.35 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
1. The Organization exclusively and directly pursues charitable purposes for the greater good within the meaning of the section "Tax Beneficial Purposes" of the German Charges Act. 2. The purpose of the Organization in accordance with §52 Abs. 2 of the German tax code (AO) is the promotion of • Science and research, • Education, • Environmental protection, • Development cooperation, and • Consumer protection 3. The economic goal is to continuously improve the quality, reliability and safety of power generation plants inter alia by • Promoting the research and development of rating systems for equipment, systems and facilities that provide energy, power and media management, and energy conversion / transformation; • Publicly available provision of such rating and rating systems by the Organization or by non-profit organizations, institutions, or other third parties • Promoting maintenance of rating and rating systems for quality assurance • Provision of teaching (...)
EU Legislative Interests
The currently most prominent legislative strategies of the EU Commission are EcoDesign, Energy Label, Green Public Procurement, the New Green Deal, or any other sustainability initiatives, including but not limited to sustainable finance. We are active member of the European Solar PV Industry Alliance, ESIA as well as of Solar Power Europe. We are a participating member at DKE.IECRE.CMC (the Technical Advisory Committee for Conformity Assessment Renewable Energies) at DKE, the German Commission for Electrotechnology, Electronics, and Information Technologies. We are a participating member at IECRE, the IEC System for Certification to Standards Relating to Equipment for Use in Renewable Energy Applications.
Communication Activities
We are interested following and supporting consultations of the EU Commission in the fields of interest and providing expert input to any research papers, legislative drafts, drafts of directives, participating in standardization requests through CEN, CENELEC, ETSI, or any other competent body dealing with sustainability, best available technologies, assessment of such technologies etc. Publications related to the EU Commission can be found on following links (mostly joint EXXERGY/TEXXECURE): 1. Feedback to Ecodesign and energy labelling for PV modules, inverters and systems: Inception impact assessment, File No. F2745992, issued on 28 October 2021: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12819-Okodesign-Europaische-Kommission-pruft-Notwendigkeit-neuer-Vorschriften-uber-die-Umweltauswirkungen-von-Fotovoltaik/F2745992_de 2. ETIP: https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjFxeDOobuAAxXmhP0HHepvD6oQFnoECBcQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fetip-pv.eu%2Fpublications%2Fetip-pv-publications%2Fdownload%2Fexpert-input-paper-on-eco-design-energy-labelling&usg=AOvVaw0jVvRZnB8Btb3Ua2hYf9fu&opi=89978449 3. ESMC: https://esmc.solar/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Article-EU-PVSEC-2021_FINAL_clean.pdf 4. IPVF: https://www.ipvf.fr/fr/etip-pv-expert-input-paper-eco-design-energy-labelling-for-photovoltaic-modules-inverters-and-systems-in-the-eu/ Outside the EU for example at NREL: https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy20osti/77361.pdf Besides, numerous presentations were held related to subject matter. TEXXECURE Rating Foundation gGmbH and EXXERGY GmbH have significantly contributed developing the Joint Mission Group Expert Input Paper (links above), e. g. by leading WG IV, Sustainability. We do not operate our own website. Entering www.texxecure.com will lead to an automated website forwarding to our parent company www.exxergy.com. An own website outlining more detail is expected to appear in late 2025 or early 2026.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
We are members of SolarPower Europe and participate in IECRE, the IEC renewable energy conformity assessment system. Furthermore, we support DKE, the German Commission for ELectrotechnology, Electronics, and Information Technology.
Organisation Members
SolarPower Europe: solarpowereurope.org IECRE: iecre.org DKE: dke.de
Additional Information
In previous years, we have received funding from Staeubli. We are currently actively seeking further funding and are in discussions with industry stakeholders. Naturally, we represent the interest of our donators, however, only as far as these fall within the limits of our goals and mission, which includes establishing rating systems aiming for proper sustainability including a sufficient minimum standard of quality. The rating system rules that we develop aim to create an equal level playing field and transparency for all stakeholders (whether originating from within our outside the EU). An own website outlining more detail is expected to appear in late 2025 or early 2026.
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.