Clean Energy Newsletter

The LIFE Clean Energy Transition Call for Proposals 2023 has EUR 99 million available to support your projects with a 95% co-funding rate. If you are preparing your proposal, read this article before submitting it as it contains important tips.

CINEA has launched a new call for proposals with EUR 1 million available to support preparatory studies in order to advance cooperation ideas for cross-border renewable energy projects. Check out the recording of the virtual info day on the call to know more on how to apply.

The virtual Info Day took place on 17 October and enabled participants to learn more about the research and innovation topics as well as funding available for 2024 under the Horizon Europe Cluster 5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility calls. Check out the recordings and presentations!

The European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) is looking for talent to contribute to the success of its main programmes. Check out the latest vacancy for Project Adviser for Sustainable Energy.

This new brochure highlights how 33 CINEA-managed projects coming from different countries, sectors and funding programmes are all working towards the same shared goal: to advance Europe’s clean energy transition.

Proposals come from 23 countries and cover sectors such as chemicals, glass, hydrogen, solar energy, manufacturing of components for renewable energy and energy storage, but also non-ferrous metals and hydro/ocean energy. Evaluation results will be published in early 2024.

Join the 2023 edition of the Covenant of Mayors Investment Forum - Energy Efficiency Finance Market Place on 25 October. The conference includes plenary sessions on how to finance the clean energy transition and climate adaptation, and offers networking opportunities with representatives of the Commission, cities and the investment community.

The fourth edition of the PCI Energy Days will take place on 28-29 November in Brussels. Register to discuss PCIs (Projects of Common Interest) and their implementation, and visit the PCI Garden where promoters will share their experience in building future-proof and innovative energy infrastructure.

Three Horizon projects (ORCELLE, AEGIS and SEATECH) and one CEF Transport project (iTERMINALS4.0) were awarded at the inaugural Waterborne awards on 25 September. They were recognised for their innovation and contribution to accelerating the transition towards a zero-emissions waterborne sector.

Through its flagship, citizen-led Solar Campaign, LIFE IP ZENAPA brings communities, local authorities, and experts together to make the future of tomorrow the reality of today.

Demand response programmes could bring European energy use down and benefit consumers, but their uptake has been slow. The EU-funded DRIMPAC project created a framework to ease this transition. The results could save costs and energy use, and help mitigate climate change

In the corn fields of Brouchy, a small village near the Somme in the North of France, a new remarkable canopy can be spotted in the agricultural landscape. Funded by the Innovation Fund, the Agrivoltaic Canopy project, with its low-carbon innovative technology, aims to create a new versatile solution, offering synergy between agriculture and renewable energy production and to set the stage for expansion in the growing agrivoltaics market.

The EU-funded EuropeWave project is using an innovative ‘pre-commercial procurement’ approach to identify and fund the most promising wave energy technologies from developers across Europe.