€272.5 million requested for H2020 energy projects
INEA has received 24 project proposals by yesterday's deadline of the Competitive Low-Carbon Energy call, requesting overall €272.5 million in EU funding. The total available budget for six topics that closed yesterday is €85 million. Evaluation of the project proposals will start in October.
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€80 million in total are available for project proposals under five topics of the of the Competitive Low-Carbon Energy call in the area of 'Innovative renewable energy technologies':
- LCE-09-2016: Increasing the competitiveness of the EU PV manufacturing industry
- LCE-13-2016: Solutions for reduced maintenance, increased reliability and extended life-time of off-shore wind turbines/farms
- LCE-15-2016: Scaling up in the ocean energy sector to arrays
- LCE-19-2016-2017: Demonstration of the most promising advanced biofuel pathways
- LCE-20-2016-2017: Enabling pre-commercial production of advanced aviation biofuel
One topic, LCE-22-2016, with a total available budget of €5 million was open for 'International Cooperation with Brazil on advanced lignocellulosic biofuels'.
The submission data are:
| Topic | Number of proposals | Requested EC contribution, € million | Available funding, € million |
| LCE-09-2016 | 6 | 73.42 | 25 |
| LCE-13-2016 | 5 | 46.05 | 10 |
| LCE-15-2016 | 5 | 78.79 | 15 |
| LCE-19-2016-2017 | 5 | 57.27 | 15 |
| LCE-20-2016-2017 | 1 | 11.95 | 15 |
| LCE-22-2016 | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Total | 24 | 272.5 | 85 |
Evaluation of all the topics is expected to start on 3 October 2016. Applicants will receive the evaluation results by 8 February at the latest.
External evaluators of project proposals are drawn from the European Commission's independent expert database. The Commission is looking to expand the database through a call for experts covering a very broad range of fields. If you fit the expert profile and would like to be considered as a proposal evaluator, please sign up in the Participant Portal.