Raymond Morel
3435 days ago
Table of contents
Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 7
CALL – ENERGY EFFICIENCY ........................................................................................ 10
A – Buildings and consumers ................................................................................................ 11
EE 1 – 2014: Manufacturing of prefabricated modules for renovation of buildings ............... 12
EE 2 – 2015: Buildings design for new highly energy performing buildings .......................... 14
EE3 – 2014: Energy strategies and solutions for deep renovation of historic buildings.......... 15
EE 4 – 2014: Construction skills .............................................................................................. 16
EE 5 – 2014/2015: Increasing energy performance of existing buildings through process and organisation innovations and creating a market for deep renovation ....................................... 18
EE 6 – 2015: Demand response in blocks of buildings ............................................................ 19
EE 7 – 2014/2015: Enhancing the capacity of public authorities to plan and implement sustainable energy policies and measures ................................................................................ 20
EE 8 – 2014: Public procurement of innovative sustainable energy solutions ........................ 21
EE 9– 2014/2015: Empowering stakeholders to assist public authorities in the definition and implementation of sustainable energy policies and measures .................................................. 22
EE 10 – 2014/2015: Consumer engagement for sustainable energy ........................................ 23
EE 11 – 2014/2015- New ICT-based solutions for energy efficiency ..................................... 24
EE 12 – 2014: Socioeconomic research on energy efficiency ................................................. 25
B – Heating and cooling ......................................................................................................... 25
EE 13 – 2014/2015: Technology for district heating and cooling ........................................... 25
EE 14 - 2014/2015: Removing market barriers to the uptake of efficient heating and cooling solutions ................................................................................................................................... 26
C - Industry and products ..................................................................................................... 28
EE 15 – 2014/2015: Ensuring effective implementation of EU product efficiency legislation28
EE 16 – 2014/2015: Organisational innovation to increase energy efficiency in industry ...... 29
EE 17 – 2015: Driving energy innovation through large buyer groups ................................... 31
EE 18 2014/2015: New technologies for utilization of heat recovery in large industrial systems, considering the whole energy cycle from heat production to transformation, delivery and end use ............................................................................................................................... 31
D - Finance for sustainable energy ....................................................................................... 33
EE 19 – 2014/2015: Improving the financeability and attractiveness of sustainable energy investments ............................................................................................................................... 33
EE 20 – 2014/2015: Project development assistance for innovative bankable and aggregated sustainable energy investment schemes and projects ............................................................... 34
EE 21 – 2014/2015: Development and market roll-out of innovative energy services and financial schemes for sustainable energy ................................................................................. 35
CONDITIONS FOR THIS CALL ........................................................................................................ 37
CALL – COMPETITIVE LOW-CARBON ENERGY ...................................................... 40
LCE 1 - 2014: New knowledge and technologies .................................................................... 40
Renewable electricity and heating/cooling ........................................................................... 41
LCE 2 – 2014/2015: Developing the next generation technologies of renewable electricity and heating/cooling ......................................................................................................................... 43
LCE 3 – 2014/2015: Demonstration of renewable electricity and heating/cooling technologies .................................................................................................................................................. 46
LCE 4 – 2014/2015: Market uptake of existing and emerging renewable electricity, heating and cooling technologies .......................................................................................................... 49
Modernising the European electricity grid .......................................................................... 52
LCE 5 – 2015: Innovation and technologies for the deployment of meshed off-shore grids .. 52
LCE 6 – 2015: Transmission grid and wholesale market ........................................................ 54
LCE 7 – 2014: Distribution grid and retail market .................................................................. 55
Providing the energy system with flexibility through enhanced energy storage technologies ............................................................................................................................. 59
LCE 8 – 2014: Local / small-scale storage .............................................................................. 59
LCE 9 – 2015: Large scale energy storage .............................................................................. 61
LCE 10 – 2014: Next generation technologies for energy storage .......................................... 62
Sustainable biofuels and alternative fuels for the European transport fuel mix ............. 64
LCE 11 – 2014/2015: Developing next generation technologies for biofuels and sustainable alternative fuels ........................................................................................................................ 64
LCE 12 – 2014/2015: Demonstrating advanced biofuel technologies ..................................... 65
LCE 13 – 2015: Partnering with Brazil on advanced biofuels ................................................. 67
LCE 14 – 2014/2015: Market uptake of existing and emerging sustainable bioenergy .......... 69
Enabling the decarbonisation of the use of fossil fuels during the transition to a low-carbon economy ...................................................................................................................... 70
LCE 15 – 2014/2015: Enabling decarbonisation of the fossil fuel-based power sector and energy intensive industry through CCS ................................................................................... 70
LCE 16 – 2014: Understanding, preventing and mitigating the potential environmental impacts and risks of shale gas exploration and exploitation .................................................... 71
LCE 17 – 2015: Highly flexible and efficient fossil fuel power plants ................................... 72
Supporting the development of a European research area in the field of energy ............ 73
LCE 18 – 2014/2015 : Supporting Joint Actions on demonstration and validation of innovative energy solutions ...................................................................................................... 73
LCE 19 – 2014/2015 : Supporting coordination of national R&D activities ........................... 74
Social, environmental and economic aspects of the energy system ................................... 75
LCE 20 – 2014: The human factor in the energy system ......................................................... 75
LCE 21 – 2015: Modelling and analysing the energy system, its transformation and impacts 76
Cross-cutting issues ................................................................................................................ 77
LCE 22 – 2014: Fostering the network of National Contact Points ......................................... 77
CONDITIONS FOR THIS CALL ........................................................................................................ 79
CALL – SMART CITIES AND COMMUNITIES ............................................................. 82
SCC 1 – 2014/2015: Smart Cities and Communities solutions integrating energy, transport, ICT sectors through lighthouse (large scale demonstration - first of the kind) projects .......... 83
Enhancing the roll-out of Smart Cities and Communities solutions by stimulating the market demand ....................................................................................................................... 86
SCC 2 – 2014 : Developing a framework for common, transparent data collection and performance measurement to allow comparability and replication between solutions and best-practice identification ............................................................................................................... 87
SCC 3 – 2015 : Development of system standards for smart cities and communities solutions .................................................................................................................................................. 88
SCC 4 – 2014 : Establishing networks of public procurers in local administrations on smart city solutions ............................................................................................................................ 89
SCC 5 – 2015: Smart solutions for creating better cities and communities – assistance for a prize competition ...................................................................................................................... 90
CONDITIONS FOR THIS CALL ........................................................................................................ 91
CALL – SMEs AND FAST TRACK TO INNOVATION FOR ENERGY ...................... 93
SIE 1 – 2014/2015: Stimulating the innovation potential of SMEs for a low carbon and efficient energy system ............................................................................................................. 93
SIE 2 – 2015: Fast track to Innovation Topic - Pilot ............................................................... 95
CONDITIONS FOR THIS CALL .............................................................................................. 96
OTHER ACTIONS , .............................................................................................................. 99
B.1. Energy efficiency ....................................................................................................... 99
B.1.1: Buildings and consumers ........................................................................................... 99
B.1.2: Heating and cooling ................................................................................................. 105
B.1.3: Industry and products .............................................................................................. 106
B.1.4: Innovative financing for sustainable energy ................................................................ 107
B.2.: Competitive low-carbon energy technologies ......................................................... 109
B.2.1.: Support to policy development and implementation of the Renewable Energy Directive ................................................................................................................................ 109
B.2.2.: Coordination of Renewable Energy policies development and implementation through concerted actions with Member States ................................................................................... 110
B.2.3.: Support to Research and Innovation Policy in the areas of Renewable Energy, Carbon Capture and Storage and Clean Coal ..................................................................................... 114
B.2.4.: JRC's assistance, through a specific Administrative Arrangement, for Research and Innovation policy ................................................................................................................... 115
B.2.5.: Engine tests with new types of biofuels and development of biofuel standards under Framework Partnership Agreement with CEN-CENELEC .................................................. 116
B.2.6.: Realization of a reliable and stable energy supply systems integrating increasing share of variable renewable energy and storage ............................................................................. 116
B.2.7.: Energy Storage Mapping and Planning ..................................................................... 117
B.2.8.: Energy Policy support on CCS .................................................................................. 118
B.2.9.: Energy Policy support on unconventional gas and oil .............................................. 118
B.2.10.: Innovative Financial Instruments for First-of-a-kind Commercial Demonstration Projects in the field of Energy ............................................................................................... 119
B.2.11.: Supporting first-of-a-kind, commercial-scale industrial demonstration projects in the field of competitive low carbon energy ................................................................................. 119
B.2.12.: Studies to support the Internal Energy Market ........................................................ 120
B.2.13.: Mapping and analyses of the current and future (2020 - 2030) heating/cooling fuel deployment (fossil/renewables) .............................................................................................. 121
B.2.14.: Support to key activities of the European Technology Platform on Renewable Heating and Cooling .............................................................................................................. 122
B.2.15.: Support to key activities of the European Wind Energy Technology Platform (TP Wind) ................................................................................................................................. 122
B.2.16.: Support to R&D strategy in the area of SET Plan activities in smart grids and energy storage ................................................................................................................................. 123
B.2.17.: Contribution to Implementing Agreements (IA) of the International Energy Agency (IEA) ................................................................................................................................. 123
B.2.18.: Contribution to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) ................. 124
B.3. Smart Cities and Communities ................................................................................ 125
B.3.1.: Studies to support Smart Cities and Communities .................................................... 125
B.3.2.: Support Services for the Covenant of Mayors Initiative , ......................................... 126
B.3.3.: Support the coordination of cities' activities via the Green Digital Charter .............. 127
B.3.4.: Administrative arrangement with the JRC on measurement methodologies in the context of the International telecommunications Union (ITU) ............................................. 128
B.4. Cross-cutting issues ................................................................................................. 129
B.4.1: Contribution to the IEA Energy Policy Review ......................................................... 129
B.4.2: Modelling and analysing energy policy, system transformation and climate change measures ................................................................................................................................ 129
B.4.3.: Support to the Italian Presidency Conference on the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan) 2014 ........................................................................................ 130
B.4.4.: Support to the Luxembourg Presidency Conference on the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan) 2015 ........................................................................................ 130
B.4.5.: Communication activities ........................................................................................... 130
B.4.6.: External expertise ....................................................................................................... 131
B.4.7.: Experts for policy relevant analyses and forward looking reflection ......................... 131
INDICATIVE BUDGET ...................................................................................................... 132
Appendix: Manufacturing Readiness Levels ("MRL") .......................................................... 135
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