Call: COMPETITIVE LOW-CARBON ENERGY Budget: €361.8 million in 2014 and €374.73 million in 2015. The 2050 EU energy roadmap sets the target of reducing the Union’s greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent of the 1990 levels by 2020, followed by a further reduction of 85-90 per cent by 2050. Equally, renewables should cover a growing share of energy consumption. This call has a special focus on new technologies, biofuels, renewable electricity and modernising the grid, while providing flexibility in the system with energy storage technologies. Topics of relevance to the Irish local and regional government sector are: Renewable electricity and heating/cooling Proposals should address one or more of a menu of specific technology challenges relating to photovoltaics, wind, ocean, solar, geothermal, renewable heating and cooling, bringing the proposed solutions to a higher level of technological readiness, aiming at their “demonstration”, accompanied, where appropriate, by supporting research activities and actions targeting market uptake. Deadline: 10 September This topic will be repeated as ‘’LCE-03-2015’’ with a 3 March 2015 deadline and somewhat different technology focuses. To ensure the level of growth needed to deliver the EU targets for renewable energy, and to create the appropriate business environment for EU industrial leadership in low-carbon energy technologies, a number of important market-uptake challenges are to be addressed by this topic, notably: Ensuring sustained public acceptance of renewable energy projects and renewable energy overall, while taking into account the implications of the substantial increase in renewable energy sources (RES) share in the final energy consumption; Ensuring speedy and user friendly permitting procedures; Implementing renewable energy policies, codes and legislations at EU, national, regional and local levels in a coordinated manner using best practice examples with significant replication potential; Capacity-building and contributing to the further development of renewable energy policy, legislation and regulation, and informing the debate on post-2020 horizons; Capacity-building and facilitating the deployment of improved business models and innovative financing schemes for mobilising investments in innovative and established renewable energy systems and services. Deadline: 7 May This topic will be repeated as ‘’LCE-04-2015’’ with a 3 March 2015 deadline Modernising the European electricity grid
Call: COMPETITIVE LOW-CARBON ENERGY Budget: €361.8 million in 2014 and €374.73 million in 2015. The 2050 EU energy roadmap sets the target of reducing the Union’s greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent of the 1990 levels by 2020, followed by a further reduction of 85-90 per cent by 2050. Equally, renewables should cover a growing share of energy consumption. This call has a special focus on new technologies, biofuels, renewable electricity and modernising the grid, while providing flexibility in the system with energy storage technologies. Topics of relevance to the Irish local and regional government sector are: Renewable electricity and heating/cooling Proposals should address one or more of a menu of specific technology challenges relating to photovoltaics, wind, ocean, solar, geothermal, renewable heating and cooling, bringing the proposed solutions to a higher level of technological readiness, aiming at their “demonstration”, accompanied, where appropriate, by supporting research activities and actions targeting market uptake. Deadline: 10 September This topic will be repeated as ‘’LCE-03-2015’’ with a 3 March 2015 deadline and somewhat different technology focuses. To ensure the level of growth needed to deliver the EU targets for renewable energy, and to create the appropriate business environment for EU industrial leadership in low-carbon energy technologies, a number of important market-uptake challenges are to be addressed by this topic, notably: Ensuring sustained public acceptance of renewable energy projects and renewable energy overall, while taking into account the implications of the substantial increase in renewable energy sources (RES) share in the final energy consumption; Ensuring speedy and user friendly permitting procedures; Implementing renewable energy policies, codes and legislations at EU, national, regional and local levels in a coordinated manner using best practice examples with significant replication potential; Capacity-building and contributing to the further development of renewable energy policy, legislation and regulation, and informing the debate on post-2020 horizons; Capacity-building and facilitating the deployment of improved business models and innovative financing schemes for mobilising investments in innovative and established renewable energy systems and services. Deadline: 7 May This topic will be repeated as ‘’LCE-04-2015’’ with a 3 March 2015 deadline Modernising the European electricity grid
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