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Implementation of the Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge

'Secure, clean and efficient energy' (as of March 2016)

Data: CORDA data (H2020 universe, extracted in January 2016). For 2-stage proposals, only proposals submitted to the 2nd stage

have been considered. For 2015 calls, not all grant agreements have been signed at the time of data extraction – for this

analysis, proposals intended for funding but not yet signed have been considered as 'project'. For 'Other Actions', wherever

possible, actual commitments (not the amounts stated in the WP) have been taken into account.

Contents Key figures for 2014-2015 ......................................................................................................................... 2 1. Context .............................................................................................................................................. 3 2. Overall budget distribution ............................................................................................................... 3 3. Response to the calls ........................................................................................................................ 7

3.1. Quality of submitted proposals .............................................................................................. 12 3.2. Success rates ........................................................................................................................... 12

4. 1-stage versus 2-stage submission.................................................................................................. 14 5. Project portfolio .............................................................................................................................. 15 6. Budgetary obligations and commitments ....................................................................................... 19 7. Implementation .............................................................................................................................. 20 8. Project characteristics ..................................................................................................................... 21 9. Participants ..................................................................................................................................... 22 10. Contribution to other initiatives ................................................................................................. 29 11. Energy-related activities in other programme parts .................................................................. 29 12. Description of funded activities .................................................................................................. 32

Energy Efficiency ................................................................................................................................. 32 New Knowledge and Technologies ..................................................................................................... 35 Renewable energy technologies ......................................................................................................... 35 Biofuels ............................................................................................................................................... 39 Renewables - Cross-cutting activities ................................................................................................. 40 Integrated EU energy system .............................................................................................................. 41 Enabling the decarbonisation of the use of fossil fuels during the transition to a low-carbon economy ............................................................................................................................................. 42 Supporting the development of a European research area in the field of energy ............................. 43 Social, environmental and economic aspects of the energy system .................................................. 43 Smart Cities and Communities ............................................................................................................ 44

13. Gap analysis ................................................................................................................................ 46 14. Overview of funded projects per area ........................................................................................ 48

14.1. Energy efficiency ................................................................................................................. 48 14.2. Competitive Low-Carbon Energy ........................................................................................ 51 14.3. Smart Cities and Communities ............................................................................................ 57


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Key figures for 2014-2015 Overall budget: EUR 1 441 million of which EUR 1 212 million was for 443 projects, EUR 99

million for Other Actions and EUR 130 million transferred to the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen JU

Budget split between areas: Renewable energy technologies (33.1%), energy efficiency (18.3%), grids/storage (18.2%), Smart Cities and Communities (10.4%), FCH JU (9.1%), Decarbonising Fossil Fuels (6.9%), socio-economics (2%) and cross-cutting issues (2.2.%).

Open topics: on average 38 topics per year opened; ca. EUR 14 million per topic

Response to the call: 3925 proposals (58% of proposals for SME instrument, 24% for EE call, 16% for LCE and 2% for CC call) requesting EUR 8.45 billion (49% under the LCE call, 24% under the EE call, 16% under SCC and 11% under SME instrument call)

40% of the successful applicants have been new to the EU R&I Framework Programme

Success rate: 11.3% (14.4% without SME instrument call). The average success rate for proposals above all thresholds was 48%; oversubscription rate was 6.8

Project portfolio: 52.7% of project EU contribution for demonstration activities. 29.7% for research and 13.3% for market uptake activities

Commission is on track as regards its commitment for the budget share for market uptake actions (15.1% for market uptake actions (excluding FCH JU) and 6.9% for fossil fuels (excluding FCH JU).

Project characteristics: average EU contribution per project: EUR 5 million (RIA: EUR 4.73 million, IA: EUR 11.95 million, ERA-NET: EUR 9.91 million, CSA: EUR 1.67 million); average project size: 12.1 participants/project

Average funding rate: 75%

Participants: 43% of all participants from industry receiving 48% of the budget; research organisations: 17% of participants receiving 19% of the budget; universities: 16 of participants receiving 14% of the budget; public bodies: 11 of participants receiving 12% of the budget; other: 13% of participants receiving 7% of the budget

SMEs: account for 23.9% of the total budget (19.9% without SME instrument) and 28% of all participations (21.6% excluding the SME instrument). SMEs represent 58.1% of all coordinators (21.9% if the SME instrument is not taken into account).

Geographical origin: Organisations located in EU Member States accounted for 94.6% of the total budget and 93.5% of all participations. Organisations from countries associated to H2020 accounted for 4.9% of the total budget and 4.1% of the total participations. Organisations from third countries accounted for 2.4% of all participations receiving 0.4% of the total budget.

Energy outside the Energy Challenge: Additional 50% of the Energy Challenge's budget is spent outside the Energy Challenge, mainly on energy efficiency.

Gap analysis: All areas outlines in the Horizon 2020 Specific Programme have already been covered with topics and projects


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1. Context The Energy work programme (WP) 2014-2015 included

3 main calls (Energy Efficiency, Low-Carbon Energy Technologies, Smart Cities and

Communities),

1 topic for the SME instrument (placed in a common call for all SME topics)

Financial contributions to the call 'Blue Growth' (2014) and the Fast-track-to-innovation (FTI)

Pilot (2015).

In addition, a number of 'Other Actions' was included.

The Energy Efficiency call included one topic which was financed by Societal Challenge 5 (topic EE-3-

2014; 1 project with an EU contribution of EUR 5 million).

The Smart Cities and Communities call was financed also by contributions from the Transport Challenge

(in total EUR 40 million).

For this analysis, the project financed by SC5 has been included while the financial contributions to the

Blue Growth call and the FTI pilot have not been included. The consideration of the Transport

contribution is clarified in the text.

2. Overall budget distribution

Graph 1

Budget figures are indicative forecasts based on the current Multi-Annual Financial Framework.


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The distribution of available budget over the programme period is slightly back-loaded, i.e. the available

budget increases towards the end of the programme.

Actual budgets committed /transferred in 2014-2015,

The total available budget of the Energy Challenge for 2014-2015 was EUR 1 441 million. Of this budget,

around 9% was contributed to the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen JU and an additional 6.9% was implemented

outside calls for proposals (through so-called 'Other Actions'). The total budget available for projects

was 1 211 million (84% of the total budget).

As regards the overall budget distribution per thematic area, the biggest single share of the budget has

been dedicated to renewable energy technologies (33.1%), followed by energy efficiency (18.3%),

grids/storage (18.2%) and Smart Cities and Communities (10.4%).

Type of 'Other Action'

EU contribution (2014-2015,

Mio €)

Public procurements

37.00

ELENA Facility 30.00

Provision of technical/scientific services by the JRC

12.40

Concerted Actions 8.50

Experts 5.83

Grant to identified beneficiary

4.11

Subscription 1.47

TOTAL 99.31

Graph 2 Table 1


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Graph 3

*

Budgets include projects of Energy calls and the 2nd phase of the SME instrument1 as well as 'Other Actions'. The

contribution of the Transport Challenge to the SCC call (40 M€) has been deducted.

Compared to the previous programme period (2007-2013) – FP7 and the Intelligent Energy for Europe

Programme (IEE) – all areas (except New Knowledge and Technologies) could increase the absolute

average annual amount of EU funding with the highest absolute increases for grids/storage (+83.7 M€),

renewable energies (+61.4 M€), Smart Cities and Communities (+ 57.4 M€) and energy efficiency (+45.5

M€). In relative terms (difference of percentage points of the total budget share), the highest increase

was in the area of grids/storage (+ 7 percentage points) and Smart Cities and Communities (+6

percentage points) while renewable technologies’ share reduced by 9 percentage points.

1 The SME instrument consists of 3 phases: phase 1 supports a feasibility study with a lump sum of EUR 0.05 million (representing 10% of the budget dedicated to the SME instrument topic), phase 2 supports innovation projects up to an amount of EUR 2.5 million (representing 88% of the budget dedicated to the SME instrument topic), and phase 3 provides mentoring and coaching support (representing 2% of the budget dedicated to the SME instrument topic).


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Graph 4

The budget of the IEE programme has been allocated 60% to energy efficiency and 40% to renewable energy. The contribution

of the Transport Challenge to the H2020 SCC calls 2014-2015 (40 M€) has been deducted. For FP7, the first call on Smart Cities

and Communities (SCC) was opened only in 2012, but the annual average has been calculated over a period of 7 years. If

calculated over 2 years (i.e. for the years in which dedicated topics were opened), the absolute increase in 2014-2015 compared

to 2007-2013 goes down to EUR 15.1 million. The colour of the squares showing the relative difference indicates the

development compared to the previous funding period – green colour indicates an increase in percentage points, red indicates a

decrease in percentage points.

The 3 main energy calls in 2014-2015 included in total 70 topics on an annual basis (i.e. topics opened in

both years are counted in both years). This is below the average annual number of topics in the FP7

Energy Theme (41), not even including the topics of the previous IEE programme which has been

integrated in the Horizon 2020 Energy Challenge. The average budget available per topic is around EUR

14 million for the period 2014-2017, with the highest average budget per topic in the SCC call, followed

by the LCE call. The average available budget per topic in the FP7 Energy Theme was EUR 7 million, i.e.

half the amount of H2020. The decreasing number of topics and related budget increase per topic

reflects the challenge-based approach in Horizon 2020 with fewer topics which are however less

prescriptive than in FP7.


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Table 2

year call number of open topics

Available budget (Mio EUR)2

Available budget / number of open topics (Mio EUR)

2014 EE 18 92,5 5,1 LCE 16 359,31 22,5 SCC 3 73,82 24,6 TOTAL 37 525,63 14,2

2015 EE 16 100,71 6,3 LCE 15 383,57 25,6 SCC 2 85,68 42,8 TOTAL 33 569,96 17,3

2016 EE 17 93 5,5 LCE 23 349,66 15,2 SCC 1 60 60,0

TOTAL 41 502,66 12,3

2017 EE 17 101 5,9 LCE 23 367,62 16,0 SCC 1 71,5 71,5 TOTAL 41 540,12 13,2

TOTAL 152 2138,37 14,1

3. Response to the calls The feedback to the calls 2014 and 2015 was very good: 3925 proposals have been submitted

requesting a total of EUR 8.45 billion. 58% of these proposals were submitted to the SME instrument

topic which accounted however only for 11% of the total requested budget (the great majority of

proposals targeted small-scale feasibility studies).

The calls attracted in total almost 19600 applications from 10 941 unique applicants3. Most of the

applications were in the energy efficiency call (4403), followed by the LCE call (3442).

Compared with previous years, a very high number of proposals (and requested EU funding) has been

received for energy efficiency for buildings and consumer, for energy storage as well as for socio-

economic research. While energy efficiency in buildings has also been addressed in the previous

programme period (2007-2013), energy storage and socio-economic research have not been addressed

with the same level of ambition for many years which explains the great interest in the 2014-2015 calls.

The number of proposals for most areas was slightly higher in 2015 compared to 2014 (exceptions are

energy storage and energy grids4), the requested EU contribution was significantly higher in 2015 (EUR

2 The available budget shown in this table corresponds to the indicative budget figures stated in the work programme, not to the actual funding for proposals submitted under the calls. 3 A 'unique participant' is a distinct organisation which can however account for several 'applications' (i.e. participations in different proposals).

Number of proposals

Requested EU contribution

Number of proposals


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4.8 billion compared to EUR 3.6 billion). This is mainly due to the stronger feedback for demonstration

activities in the areas of Smart Cities and Communities, renewable energies, biofuels, as well as to the

increased feedback to the SME instrument and the buildings and consumer activities of the Energy

Efficiency call.

Table 3

Area Number

of proposals

number of

projects

Requested EU

contribution (proposal,

Mio €)

EU contribution (project, Mio

€)

success rate

Over-subscrip-

tion

EE - Buildings 643 60 € 1.501,52 € 120,63 9,3% 12,4 EE - Financing 103 23 € 159,43 € 36,10 22,3% 4,4

EE - Heating and Cooling 80 10 € 155,05 € 19,13 12,5% 8,1 EE - Industry 104 13 € 260,87 € 32,46 12,5% 8,0

EE - Total 930 106 € 2.076,87 € 208,32 11,4% 10,0 LCE - Renewable energy

/ bioenergy 328 65 € 2.109,48 € 368,72 19,8% 5,7

LCE - Electricity grids 47 13 € 325,92 € 139,65 27,7% 2,3 LCE - Energy storage 98 11 € 989,96 € 97,65 11,2% 10,1 LCE - Decarbonising

fossil fuels 28 10 € 227,02 € 80,20 35,7% 2,8

LCE - New knowledge and technologies

22 5 € 78,83 € 18,25 22,7% 4,3

LCE - Social Sciences and Humanities

92 8 € 304,14 € 28,02 8,7% 10,9

LCE - ERA-NET 7 7 € 75,56 € 69,40 100,0% 1,1 LCE - other 6 3 € 3,91 € 2,79 50,0% 1,4

LCE - Total 628 122 € 4.114,82 € 804,68 19,4% 5,1 Smart Cities and Communities

84 9 € 1.325,29 € 176,57* 10,7% 7,5

SME instrument 2283 206 € 937,06 € 61,93 9,0% 15,1 Grand Total 3925 443 € 8.451,68 € 1.251,51* 11,3% 6,8

* The contribution of the Transport Challenge to the H2020 SCC calls 2014-2015 (40 M€) has not been deducted.

For a number of topics opened in 2014 and 2015 (although in some cases with different scopes), there

was a substantial difference between the response in 2014 and 2015 – usually with a higher response in

2015. The stronger response in the second year (in terms of number of proposals and requested budget)

can be explained by the longer time for preparing proposals and double submission (in case of similar

topic scope for both years, a large part of the applicants not being successful in the first year,

participated again in the second year).

4 The activities supported in this area in 2015 focussed on large-scale storage and transmission while in 2014 the focus was on small-scale and distribution. The lower number of proposals in 2015 does not indicate a reduced interest in the area as a whole.


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40% of the successful applicants have been new to the EU R&I Framework Programme, i.e. they have

not participated in FP75. Almost 2/3 of all new participants are from industry. Within the same category

of participants, the highest share of new participants can be found among 'Other' (71%) and industry

(56%), while the share of new participants among universities (2%) and research centres (10%) is rather

low. Especially the SME topic attracted new participants, but also market uptake activities (previously

supported under the IEE programme) and Smart Cities and Communities were above average.

Graph 5

5 Due to lack of data it was not possible to analyse to what extent 'new participants' to Horizon 2020 have participated in the previous IEE programme. Given that market uptake activities feature a high share of new participants, it can be assumed that a significant part of the 'new participants' are in fact previous IEE participants.


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Buildings and consumers Industry and

products Financing Heating /

cooling

Graph 6


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Graph 7

RES-E,

RES-H/C Smartgrids Energy

storage

Renewable /

alternative fuels Decarbonising

Fossil Fuels

European

Research

Area

Socio-

economics NKT


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Graph 8

The contribution of the Transport Challenge to the H2020 SCC calls 2014-2015 (40 M€) has not been deducted.

3.1. Quality of submitted proposals

The success rate is calculated taking into account all proposals submitted even if they are of poor

quality. If only good proposals (i.e. proposals having received evaluation marks above all thresholds) are

taken into account, the chances of proposals improve dramatically: almost half of all proposals above

thresholds are funded, for the SME instrument even more. Around ¼ of the proposals passed all

thresholds while ¾ of all proposals missed at least one threshold.

Table 4

EE LCE* SCC SME Grand Total

main-listed proposals / all proposals (success-rate) 10% 18% 11% 9% 11% main-listed proposals / above-threshold proposals 44% 45% 45% 52% 48% above-threshold proposals / all proposals 23% 41% 24% 18% 23% below-threshold proposals / all proposals 77% 59% 76% 82% 77% * For 2-stage topics, only proposals submitted to stage 2 are taken into account.

3.2. Success rates

The overall success rate of the Energy Challenge calls 2014-2015 is 11.3% (i.e. 11.3% of all submitted

proposals receive EU funding). Without considering the SME call, the overall success rate was 14.4%.

The success rate for proposals above all thresholds was 48%.

The oversubscription rate was 6.8 (i.e. the budget requested by proposals was 6.8 times higher than the

available budget). Without considering the SME call, the oversubscription rate was 6.3.

There have been significant differences among

Calls: Highest success rates for LCE calls, lowest for SME call (Energy topic).


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Topics: More than 23% of all topics have a success rate above 30%. However the huge majority

of proposals has been submitted under topics with a success rate around 10%.

Funding instruments: Highest success for ERA-NET Cofund, lowest for SME instrument.

Submission mode: success rates for 2-stage submission have been almost double as high as for

single-stage proposals6.

Success rates per call

Table 5

Call Number of proposals

Number of projects

Success rate

(proposals)

Over-subscription

EE 930 106 11,4% 10,0 LCE 628 122 19,4% 5,1 SCC 84 9 10,7% 7,5 SME 2283 206 9,0% 15,1

TOTAL 3925 443 10,8% 6,8 TOTAL

w/o SME

1642 237 14,4% 6,3

Success rates per topic

Table 6

Success rate number of topics Number of proposals submitted under these topics

Number of projects funded

Share of total topics

above 50% 9 27 (1%) 18 (4%) 12% Between 30-40% 8 130 (3%) 45 (10%) 11% Between 20-30% 10 208 (5%) 50 (11%) 14% Between 10-20% 31 2590 (66%) 284 (64%) 42% Below 10% 16 970 (25%) 46 (10%) 22% TOTAL 74 3925 443 100%

Success rates per funding instrument

Table 7

Instrument EU contribution (Mio €)

number of

projects

requested EU contribution

(Mio €)

number of

proposals

Success rate

(proposals)

Over-subscription

CSA € 175,31 105 € 1.096,85 648 16,2% 6,3 ERA-NET- € 69,40 7 € 73,20 7 100,0% 1,1

6 This is due to the different methodology of calculating success rates: for 2-stage topics, only the proposals of the 2nd stage are taken into account. If the number of proposals received in stage 1 is used as a basis, the success rate of 2-stage proposals would be lower than for 1-stage proposals.


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Cofund IA € 585,67 49 € 3.973,80 372 13,2% 6,8

RIA € 359,60 76 € 2.370,76 615 12,4% 6,6 SME € 61,93 206 € 937,06 2283 9,0% 15,1

Grand Total

€ 1.251,91 443 € 8.451,68 3925 11,3% 6,8

Success rates per submission mode

Table 8

Stages EU contribution (Mio €)

number of

projects

requested EU contribution

(Mio €)

number of

proposals

Success rate

(proposals)

Over-subscription

1-stage € 1016.4 349 € 7504.3 3756 10,8% 7,4 1-stage

(w/o SME) € 954.4 190 € 6567.2 1473 12,9% 6,9

2-stage € 235.5 41 € 947.4 169 24,3% 4,0

4. 1-stage versus 2-stage submission The Energy WP 2014-2015 included in total 9 topics (out of 74 topics in total7; 5 topics in 2014; 4 topics

in 2015) following a two-stage submission procedure. These topics were included in the LCE call and

targeted exclusively Research & Innovation Actions (RIA). Proposals funded under these 9 topics

account for 28% of the LCE call budget and 34% of LCE call proposals.

The success rate for 1-stage proposals was 12.9% (10.8% when including the SME instrument topic). For

2-stage proposals, the success rate is calculated on the basis of the number of proposals received only in

stage 2 – therefore the rate was 24.3%. The success rate for proposals going form stage 1 to stage 2 was

31.8%8, the rate of proposals received in the first stage in relation to the main-listed proposals was 7.7%

and thus below the average success rate of 1-stage proposals.

Due to the additional submission step, the time from the (first) call deadline to the signature of the

grant agreement by the Commission is around 6 months longer than for single-stage proposals. The

average duration between first call deadline9 and grant signature was

237 days for single-stage proposals (excluding the SME instrument),

7 The number of topics has been counted on an annual basis, i.e. topics which were open in both years have been counted as 2 topics (one topic for each year). 8 All proposals passing the thresholds for stage 1 (S&T and impact criterion) were invited to submitted a proposal for stage 2. 9 For 2-stage calls this means the deadline of the first stage. However, it should be noted that the official time-to-grant statistics for 2-stage calls are calculated on the basis of the deadline of the 2nd stage.


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419 days for 2-stage proposals.

Probably due to the longer time period between call publication and grant agreement signature, the

budget share of industry participations in projects funded under 2-stage RIAs was significantly lower

compared to single-stage RIAs (1-stage: 49% vs; 2-stage: 36%). On the other side, the budget share of

research centres participations was significantly higher (1-stage: 20%; 2-stage: 40%), while for

universities it was slightly lower (1-stage: 27%; 2-stage: 23%).

5. Project portfolio

Graph 9

The contribution of the Transport Challenge to the SCC call (IA) has been deducted from the Innovation Actions.

More than half of the budget (52.7%) projects during 2014-2015 has been dedicated to demonstration

activities ('Innovation Actions' – IA, and ERA-NET Cofund actions), while the budget share for research

actions ('Research and Innovation Actions' - RIA) was 29.7%. Market uptake actions (implemented

through Coordination and Support Actions, CSAs) accounted for 13.3% and (non-market-uptake-related)

Coordination and Support Actions for an additional 1.2%. The budget share for the SME instrument was

around 5.1%.


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The share of demonstration activities is highest in the areas of Smart Cities and Communities as well as

in grids/storage. The highest share of research activities was in the area of New Knowledge and

Technologies and Decarbonisation of Fossil Fuels, while the Energy Efficiency areas featured a strong

component of market-uptake actions.

Graph 10

Compared to other H2020 programme parts, the Energy Challenges dedicates by far the highest share of

its budget to demonstration activities.

On the other hand, the share of research activities is lower than in other programme parts. The budget

share the Energy Challenges is dedicating to CSAs and ERA-NETs is among the highest of the programme.

The portfolio of projects financed under the Energy Challenge does not take into account the

contribution to the FCH JU and the 'Other Actions'. The biggest share of the budget has been dedicated

to renewable energy projects, followed by grids/storage, energy efficiency and Smart Cities and

Communities.

54.4% 52.7%

24.2% 31.3%

13.4% 12.8%


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Graph 11

The contribution of the Transport Challenge to the SCC call (40 M€) has been deducted.

As regards the project portfolio of energy efficiency projects, close to half of the budget has been

dedicated to buildings and consumers. The budget share for heating and cooling is expected to increase

in the calls 2016-2017.

As regards renewable energies, the budget share for bioenergy and PV decreased significantly compared

to FP7, while the share for geothermal energy, ocean energy and wind energy increased. It is important

to note that in 2014-2015 as regards renewables and bioenergy, no technology-specific budgets have

been earmarked (only maximum budget shares across all technologies ensuring a certain overall

balance) – thus the budget distribution between the different RES technologies has been the result of a

competitive process.


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Graph 12

A more detailed description of the projects portfolio is in chapter 12.

An important novelty in Horizon

2020 is the introduction of the

SME instrument. In the case of

the Energy Challenge, the

dedicated topic is completely

bottom-up and allows proposal

submission for all areas

included in the Energy

Challenge as described in the

H2020 legal base. Projects

supported under this topic can

therefore not always be

categorized along the structure

of the EE, LCE or SCC call. While

most projects are supported in

the area of energy efficiency,

Bioenergy; 101,1; 22% PV; 33,6; 7%

CSP; 40,4; 9%

wind energy; 83,6; 19%

Geothermal energy; 69,7;

15%

Heating and cooling; 38,4;

9%

Ocean energy; 60,5; 13%

Cross-cutting; 26,9; 6%

Project portfolio of RES (Energy calls 2014-2015, incl. SME instrument, EU contribution, Mio €)

Graph 13


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the highest EU contribution was dedicated to projects in the renewables area, especially as regards

phase 2.

6. Budgetary obligations and commitments The H2020 Legal base stipulates that at least 85% of the total Energy Challenge budget must be

dedicated non-fossil fuel10 related activities. In addition, the Declaration of the Commission which is

annexed to the legal base includes the political commitment that at least 15% of the budget has to be

dedicated to market uptake activities11.

As regards the obligation on the budget share for non-fossil fuel related activities, only 6.9% of the

budget was dedicated for supporting the decarbonisation of fossil fuels thus fully respecting the

commitment12.

As regards the market-uptake commitment, the share of projects dedicated exclusively on market-

uptake was 13.3%. In addition, an important part of market uptake activities has been implemented

outside calls for proposals (as 'Other Actions'). If these activities are included, the budget share for

market-uptake activities increases to 15.1%.

In addition, a significant number of activities (demonstration projects as well as all SME instrument

projects) including important market-uptake aspects has been supported.

The Commission is therefore on track as regards its commitment for the budget share for market uptake

actions.

Table 9

Activity / Year Non market-uptake actions (Mio €)

Market-uptake actions (Mio €)

Total (Mio €)

Budgetary share of market uptake actions

Projects 2014 514.1 82.1 596.2 13.8% 2015 536.7 79.0 615.7 12.8% Total Projects 1 050.8 161.1 1 211.9 13.3%

10 The Regulation establish the FP states: "With a view to achieving the Union's long-term climate and energy objectives, it is appropriate to increase the share of the budget dedicated to renewable energy, end-user energy efficiency, smart grids and energy storage activities as compared to the Seventh Framework Programme, and increase the budget dedicated to market uptake of energy innovation activities undertaken under the Intelligent Energy Europe Programme within the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (2007 to 2013). The total allocation to these activities shall endeavour to reach at least 85 % of the budget under this societal challenge". 11 The Declaration of the Commission annexed to the FP states: "The Commission will endeavour to ensure that at least 85 %, of the energy challenge budget of Horizon 2020 is spent in non-fossil fuels areas, within which at least 15 % of the overall energy challenge budget is spent on market up-take activities of existing renewable and energy efficiency technologies in the Intelligent Energy Europe III Programme". 12 The legal base does not specify how the budgetary contribution of the Energy Challenge to the FCH JU in 2014-2015 (EUR 130 million corresponding to 8.9% of the total budget) is to be considered.


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Other Actions13 2014 52.4 15.0 67.3 22.3% 2015 23.2 23.5 46.7 50.3% TOTAL Other Actions

75.6 38.5 114,0 33.8%

TOTALS Projects 13.3%

Projects + Other Actions 15.1% The contribution of the Transport Challenge to the SCC call (40 M€) has been deducted.

The contribution of the Energy Challenge to the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU) has not been taken into

account. It will be included in the analysis once data for FCH JU activities targeting market uptake is available.

7. Implementation The activities of the Energy Challenge are implemented by Executive Agencies (INEA, EASME) and

Commission services (RTD, ENER, CNECT). While EASME implements around 2/3 of all projects (including

SME instrument), INEA implements almost ¾ of the total project budget.

13 The amount of 'Other Actions' which have been previously supported under the IEE programme was EUR 30 million in 2014 and EUR 32.1 million in 2015. However, for this analysis only the contributions to the ELENA facility and the support for the Concerted Actions have been considered as 'market uptake'.

Graph 14 Graph 15

The contribution of the Transport Challenge to the SCC call (40 M€) has been deducted in the right-hand graph.


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8. Project characteristics The average size and EU contribution per project differs significantly according to the type of funding

instrument. The biggest projects in terms of number of participants and EU contribution are Innovation

Actions.

Table 10

funding instrument

EU contribution

(Mio €)

number of

projects

number of participants

average EU contribution per

project

(Mio €)

average number of

participants per project

average EU contribution

per participant

(Mio €)

CSA € 175,31 105 1095 € 1,67 10,4 € 0,16 ERA-NET-

Cofund € 69,40 7 94 € 9,91 13,4 € 0,74

IA € 585,67 49 842 € 11,95 17,2 € 0,70 RIA € 359,60 76 844 € 4,73 11,1 € 0,43

Total (w/o) SME

€ 1.189,97 237 2875 € 5,02 12,1 € 0,41

SME € 61,93 206 213 € 0,30 1,0 € 0,29 Grand Total € 1.251,91 443 3088 € 2,83 7,0 € 0,41 The contribution of the Transport Challenge to the SCC call (40 M€) has not been deducted.

The average project size in the FP7 Energy Theme was 11.6 participants, the average EU contribution per

project EUR 5.1 million while the average EU contribution per participation was EUR 0.44 million. The

global averages for the Horizon 2020 Energy Challenge are very similar (if SME instrument is excluded),

but differences exist at the level of the type of activity. Demonstration activities in Horizon 2020 involve

more participants than in FP7 (17 compared to 12) and receive a higher EU funding (EUR 11.95 million

compared to EUR 8.3 million). Research projects involve a similar number of participants but the

average EU contribution increased significantly (EUR 4.7 million compared to 4.1 million). The increase

of budget for research and demonstration activities is offset by the significant number of smaller-scale

CSAs targeting market uptake. Such projects have previously been financed under the IEE programme

and have been integrated in the Horizon 2020 Energy Challenge.

Compared to other programme parts (based on data for the 2014 calls), the average EU contribution per

project is similar to other programme parts, whereas the average number of participants per project is

at the lower end of the range. This leads to a relatively high EU contribution per participant. As regards

research activities (RIAs), projects of the Energy Challenge receive significantly less EU contribution

compared to other similar programme parts and projects include less participants. On the contrary, the

EU contribution for demonstration projects (IAs) is very high (second only to the Transport Challenge)

and the EU contribution per participant is highest.

EU contribution

Number of projects


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Table 11 The average funding rate of all Energy

Challenge projects in 2014-2015 was 75%,

but significant differences exist between

different types of action in line with the

Rules for Participation14.

9. Participants The majority of

participations were

from industry (43%),

receiving also the

biggest part of the

budget (48%). The

shares are lower if the

SME instrument is

excluded: 38% of all

participants receiving

45% of the budget).

The share of industry

coordinators is even

higher (63%), but drops

to 32% if the SME

instrument is excluded

(in the latter case, the

share of coordinating

research organisations

increases to 31%).

However, at the level of unique participants (i.e. a single entity), the highest amount of EU contribution

was for research centres, followed by universities, because they tend to participate on more occasions

in the programme (for 2014-2015, on average 2 participations per unique research centre and 1.8

participations per unique university).

Compared to the FP7 Energy Theme, the average annual EU contribution15 increased for all categories of

entities because of the overall budget increase of Horizon 2020. The relative increase was highest for

14 According to the Rules for Participation, the maximum funding rate for CSAs and RIAs is 100%, for IAs 70% (the actual higher funding rate for IAs is due to the special funding rate for non-profit organisations of 100%) . For the SME instrument, a funding rate of 70% was specified in the work programme. 15 The total amount of EU contribution per category of entity in FP7 has been divided by 7 (years), while for the H0220 Energy Challenge it has been divided by 2 (years).

Type of action Average funding rate (2014-2015)

CSA 99,4% ERA-NET-Cofund 31,3%

IA 74,3% RIA 91,1% SME 69,9%

Grand Total 75,0%

Graph 16

Participations

EU contribution

EU contribution

Number of

participations

The contribution of the Transport Challenge to the SCC call (40 M€) has not been deducted.


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'other' (+597%), followed by public bodies (+448%), industry (+224%), research centres (+201%) and

universities (+174%)16.

Table 12

EU contribution

(Mio €)

participations unique participants

EU contribution

per participation

(Mio €)

EU contribution per unique participant

(Mio €)

Participations per unique participant

Universities € 174,30 468 264 € 0,37 € 0,66 1,77 Other € 81,76 369 294 € 0,22 € 0,28 1,26 Industry € 594,11 1276 1200 € 0,47 € 0,50 1,06 Public bodies € 147,71 316 232 € 0,47 € 0,64 1,36 Research Organisations

€ 240,09 515 252 € 0,47 € 0,95 2,04

Grand Total € 1.237,98 2944 2242 € 0,42 € 0,55 1,31 The contribution of the Transport Challenge to the SCC call (40 M€) has not been deducted.

SMEs’ participations account for 23.9% of the total budget (19.9% if the SME instrument is not taken

into account) and 28% of all participations (21.6% excluding the SME instrument). SMEs represent 58.1%

of all coordinators (21.9% if the SME instrument is not taken into account).

Outside the SME instrument, SMEs were most active in the area of renewable energy/bioenergy, energy

efficiency in buildings and consumer, Smart Cities and Communities and grids/storage.

16 The increase will be lower (especially as regards 'other' and 'public bodies') if participants of the IEE were included. However, due to unavailability of data, this could not be done so far.


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Graph 17

Graph 18



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Participation of industry is particularly high in the area of grids/storage and renewables/biofuels.

Research organisations are most active in the decarbonisation of fossil fuels as well as in New

Knowledge and Technologies. Public bodies dominate in ERA-NETs and are strong in Smart Cities and

Communities. The share of universities is highest in socio-economic projects and in New Knowledge and

Technologies.

Graph 19

In terms of funding instruments, demonstration activities (IA) are dominated by industry participants,

nevertheless universities and research centres account for around ¼ of the demonstration budget.

Industry participants are also the most significant group in terms of budget in research activities (RIA),

but research centres account for around 1/3 of the budget and universities for around ¼. The

participation in market-uptake activities is more balanced with industry, 'Other' and

universities/research centres each receiving around 30% of the available EU contribution.

Organisations located in EU Member States accounted for 94.6% of the total budget and 93.5% of all

participations. Organisations from countries associated to H2020 accounted for 4.9% of the total budget

and 4.1% of the total participations. Organisations from third countries accounted for 2.4% of all

participations receiving 0.4% of the total budget17 (excluding organisations from Switzerland, only 0.6%

of all participations were from third countries).

17 Organisations from a number of third countries can only receive funding from Horizon 2020 if their participation is considered essential for carrying out the action.

Participations

EU contribution


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The most successful third

countries were South

Africa and Morocco (accounting

for 2/3 of the total EU

contribution to third countries).

Participation of third countries

was particularly high in the

renewable energy/bioenergy

area.

46 out of 237 projects

(excluding SME instrument call)

– 19% of all projects - had at

least one participation from a

third country organisation

(excluding Switzerland, only 12

projects – 5% of all projects

(except SME instrument) had at

least one participation from a

third country organisation).

Table 13

Country EU contribution (Mio €) Participations

Argentina € 0.30 1

Australia* € 0 1

Switzerland* € 0.02 54

India* € 0.32 1

South Korea* € 0 3

Morocco € 1.91 4

Mexico* € 0 2

US* € 0.2 3

Uruguay € 0.13 1

South Africa € 2.07 3

TOTAL € 5.1 73

The contribution of the Transport Challenge to the SCC call (40 M€) has not been deducted. * Organisations of this country are not eligible for EU funding, except if participation is essential to carry out the project.

Graph 20

EU contribution

16

1 22 CEE

IR

Impl…

Number of

participations

The contribution of the Transport Challenge to the SCC call (40 M€) has not been

deducted.


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Graph 22



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10. Contribution to other initiatives The Energy Challenge committed to support the PPP on Energy-efficient Buildings (EeB) and SPIRE.

So far, 5 projects with a total budget of EUR 20 million have been supported contributing to SPIRE

and 6 projects with a EU contribution of EUR 25.8 million contributing to EeB. In addition, the Energy

Challenge also contributed EUR 3 million to the Blue Growth initiative; however there were no topics

exclusively focussing on energy issues in 2014.2015.

The Societal Challenge 5 ('Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials')

supported 1 project with a total budget of EUR 4.96 million in 2014 (topic EE-03-2014).

11. Energy-related activities in other programme parts Energy is a cross-cutting issue and therefore addressed in many programme parts. An analysis of all

projects funded under the 2014/2015 calls18 shows that other parts of the programme have

committed an additional EUR 614.2 million to energy-related projects. This amount is equivalent to

50% of the Energy Challenge's budget of EUR 1219.9 million. When the EUR 406.7 million budget of

Euratom (excluding ITER) in 2014-2015 is added, this brings the combined total devoted to energy in

2014-2015 to over EUR 2.2 billion.

Energy-relevant activities are supported in 20 different programme parts which shows the cross-

cutting relevance of energy. Almost 32% of the weighted energy-related funding outside SC3 comes

from the PPPs:

Energy-efficient Buildings: 15.3%,

Factories of the Future: 4.1%,

Green Vehicles: 5.3%,

SPIRE: 7.2%.

However, for most programme parts, the energy-relevant component represents a rather modest

part of the overall funding (exceptions are 2.1.5. Advanced manufacturing and processes, 2.1.3.

Advanced materials and 3.4. Transport).

In terms of the number of projects, the highest number was funded under the Marie-Skłodowska-

Curie Actions (MSCA) (96 out of 422), followed by the European Research Council (ERC) (57), the

Transport Challenge (51), Advanced manufacturing and processing (47), Societal Challenge 5 (Climate

action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials) (44).

18 Data extracted from CORDA on 25 November 2015 (only grants of the 2014-2015 calls that are at least already in preparation are included). Projects have been categorised, based on their abstract and their keywords, as either 'not relevant to energy', 'partially relevant to energy' or 'relevant for energy' (abstracts and keywords had to include an explicit reference to energy for being considered). This methodology should result in rather conservative estimations since a number 'partially relevant' projects will probably not have mentioned their energy-relevance sufficiently explicit and have therefore been considered 'not relevant'. Following the logic of the Rio-Markers, 'partially relevant' projects have been taken into account with 40% of their budget while 'relevant' projects have been taken fully into account. This categorisation can't provide exact amount but only estimates of the order of magnitudes. Other forms of support, e.g. financial instruments under the 'Access to Risk Finance' part could not be considered in this analysis.


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Graph 23

* weighted EU contribution: EU contribution of 'partially relevant' projects are weighted by a factor of 0.4.

Transport – Societal Challenge 4 'Smart, green and integrated transport'

Climate – Societal Challenge 5 'Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials'

ERC – European Research Council

FET – Future Emerging Technologies

MSCA – Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions

RI – Research Infrastructures

ICT - Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies - Information and Communication Technologies

Materials - Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies - Advanced Materials

Advanced manufacturing - Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies - Advanced manufacturing

Almost half of the energy-related funding outside SC3 was on energy efficiency. More than 150

projects have been found to be partially (total budget of these projects: EUR 471 million) and 20

projects fully relevant. The majority of this funding (53%) was provided under the PPPs. The weighted

funding for energy efficiency in 2014-2015 was higher than the funding on energy efficiency in SC3.


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Graph 24

As regards grids/storage, the highest weighted funding (EUR 58 million) and number of relevant

projects (13 partially relevant, 22 fully relevant) was for energy storage (mainly ERC, MSCA,

Advanced Materials and Transport Challenge).

As regards renewable energies and biofuels, almost half of the total 96 projects and weighted budget

was dedicated to solar energy (mainly PV; 44 projects; EUR 49 million). For PV, this amount is higher

than the contribution under SC3. Most of the PV-related projects were financed under the ERC and

MSCA. Significant weighted funding was also dedicated to wind energy (9 projects, EUR 15.6 million;

mainly MSCA) and bioenergy (18 projects, EUR 11.6 million; mainly MSCA, ERC and SC5).


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12. Description of funded activities

Energy Efficiency

More than half of the projects and EU contribution in the area of energy efficiency has been

dedicated to non-technological challenges aiming at supporting the market-uptake of existing and

innovative solution.

Buildings

Improving the energy efficiency of buildings was supported under the Energy Efficiency call 2014-

2015 with the following actions:

1 research project addressing thermal insulation of historic buildings (2014, EU contribution

EUR 5 million),

3 demonstration projects targeting pre-fabricated modules for renovation of buildings (2014,

total EU contribution: EUR 13.1 million),

3 demonstration projects addressing building designs for new highly energy performing

buildings (2015, total EU contribution: EUR 11.5 million).

Under the SME instrument call, 3 innovation projects dealing with energy efficiency in buildings have

been supported in 2015 (total EU contribution: EUR 5.4 million) and around 20 feasibility studies

(2014, 2015; total EU contribution: EUR 1 million). Demonstrating energy efficiency in buildings is

also included in some activities funded under the Smart Cities and Communities call.

Energy efficiency on buildings is also supported outside the Energy Challenge part of the programme,

mainly through the PPP on Energy-efficient Buildings (PPP EeB). In the context of this PPP, additional

22 projects were supported in 2014-2015 with a total 'weighted' EU contribution of EUR 81.4 million

('non-weighted': EUR 97.5 million).

The total EU contribution for energy efficiency for buildings in 2014-2015 was EUR 111.4 million (EUR

30 million from the Energy Challenge + EUR 81.4 million 'weighted' contribution from other

programme parts).

For 2016-2017, the Energy Efficiency call foresees support for:

Demonstration actions on deep renovation of buildings,

Market-uptake measures stimulating deep renovation of buildings, cost reduction of new

Nearly Zero-Energy buildings and improvement of construction skills.

Consumers

Regarding the improvement of energy efficiency with a focus on the consumer, the following

activities have been supported in 2014-2015:

9 research projects addressing the ICT-based solutions for energy efficiency (2014, 2015;

total EU contribution: EUR 17.3 million),

5 research projects investigating socio-economic aspects of energy efficiency (2014, total EU

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2 demonstration projects on demand response in blocks of buildings (2015, total EU

contribution: EUR 8.1 million)

11 market uptake projects (CSA) targeting capacity building of public authorities for defining

and implementing sustainable energy policy and measures (2014, 2015; total EU

contribution: EUR 18.8 million),

4 market uptake projects (CSA) addressing public procurement of innovative energy solutions

(2014, total EU contribution: EUR 5.8 million),

5 market uptake projects (CSA) supporting stakeholders in assisting public authorities in

policy development (2014, 2015; total EU contribution: EUR 8.6 million),

8 market uptake projects (CSA) supporting consumer engagement for sustainable energy

(2014, 2015; total EU contribution: EUR 11.1 million).

The total EU contribution for energy efficiency for consumer in 2014-2015 was EUR 96.4 million.


Socio-economic research on consumer's behaviour related to energy efficiency,

Demonstration actions targeting behavioural change toward energy efficiency through ICT,

Market-uptake measures engaging private consumers as well as public authorities towards

sustainable energy.

Heating and cooling

Heating and cooling was supported under the Energy Efficiency call 2014-2015 with the following

actions:

7 research projects on technologies for district heating and cooling (2014, 2015; total EU


3 market-uptake actions targeting the removal of barriers for uptake of heating and cooling

solutions (2014, 2015; total EU contribution: EUR 4.8 million)

Technology development for renewable heating and cooling was also supported under the LCE call (4

projects, total EU contribution: EUR 37.2 million), the SME instrument topic (6 innovation projects

(phase 2) with a total EU contribution: EUR 9.1 million, and 11 feasibility studies (phase 1) with a

total EU contribution of EUR 0.55 million). Heating and cooling is also included in some activities

funded under the Smart Cities and Communities call.

The total EU contribution for heating and cooling in 2014-2015 was EUR 66.9 million.


Research actions targeting models and tools for heating and cooling mapping and planning,

Research and demonstration actions on low grade sources of thermal energy,

Demonstration actions on waste heat recovery as well as on standardised installation

packages integrating renewable and energy efficiency solutions for heating and cooling

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Market-uptake measures for improving the performance of inefficient district heating

networks.

Industry, services and products

Energy efficiency in industry was supported under the Energy Efficiency call 2014-2015 with the

following actions:

4 research projects addressing heat recovery in industrial systems (2014, 2015; total EU


6 market-uptake actions targeting organisational innovation in industry (2014, 2015; total EU

contribution: EUR 10.5 million).

In addition, 5 innovation projects have been funded under the SME instrument topic (phase 2; 2014,

2015; total EU contribution: EUR 6 million) as well as 7 feasibility studies (SME instrument phase 1;

2014, 2015; total EU contribution: EUR 0.4 million).

Energy Efficiency in products was supported under the Energy Efficiency call 2014-2015 through 3

market-uptake actions supporting the effective implementation of EU product efficiency legislations

(2014, 2015; total EU contribution: EUR 6.4 million).

Energy efficiency in industry (including industrial processes) and products has been supported in

many other programme parts, notably 'Advanced manufacturing and processing', 'ICT',

'Nanotechnologies', 'Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials', as well as

'Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research

and the bioeconomy', with around 100 projects with a 'weighted' EU contribution of EUR 101.6

million (non-'weighted': EUR 242.2 million).

The total EU contribution for energy efficiency in industry and products was in 2014-2015 was EUR

140.4 million (EUR 38.8 million from the Energy Challenge + EUR 101.6 million 'weighted'

contribution from other programme parts).


Demonstration actions on the valorisation of waste heat in industrial systems, on more

energy efficient data centres as well as on transnational cooperation on energy efficiency in

industry and services (through an ERA-NET Cofund),

Market-uptake measures regarding the effective implementation of EU product efficiency

legislation, capacity building for implementing energy efficiency measures in industry and

services, improving energy efficiency in industrial parks,

Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions as regards innovative solutions for energy

efficiency.

Finance for sustainable energy

Supporting the access to financing for energy efficiency measures have been supported under the

Energy Efficiency call in 2014 and 2015 with the following actions:


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12 market-uptake actions on improving the financeability and attractiveness of sustainable

energy investments (2014, 2015; total EU contribution: EUR 21.3 million),

6 market-uptake actions providing project development assistance (2014, 2015; total EU


5 market-uptake actions supporting the market rollout of innovative energy services and

financial schemes (2014, 2015; total EU contribution: EUR 8 million).

In addition, one feasibility study on financing for energy efficiency was supported under the SME

instrument (2015, EU contribution: EUR 0.05 million).

The total EU contribution for financing of energy efficiency in 2014-2015 was EUR 36.1 million.


Market-uptake measures providing project development assistance, making the energy

efficiency market investible and supporting innovative financing schemes as well as the roll-

out and development of innovative energy efficiency services.

New Knowledge and Technologies

A topic on new knowledge and technologies in the areas of renewable energies and decarbonisation

of fossil fuels was supported in 2014. As a result 5 projects with a total EU contribution of EUR 18.25

million have been funded addressing new generations of solar cells, electricity generation from low-

grade heat, power electronics and wave energy converters.

For 2016-2017, the LCE call foresees again a dedicated topic on knowledge and technologies –

covering all renewable technologies – with an indicative budget of EUR 20 million.

Renewable energy technologies

Research, demonstration and market-uptake of renewable energy technologies have been addressed

in 2014 and 2015. Topics have addressed certain parts of the innovation cycle for all renewable

energy technologies in parallel, i.e. all RES-technologies at a certain TRL level were competing for

funding.

Photovoltaics

Photovoltaics has been addressed in the following calls of the Energy Challenge in 2014-2015:

The LCE calls resulted in 6 projects with a total EU contribution of EUR 26.3 million. Of these

6 projects, 2 research actions focussed on next generation high performance cells (2014) and

and 1 on cost reductions (2015), 1 innovation action targeted Building-Integrated PV (2014),

1 ERA-NET Cofund (2015) promoted transnational cooperation and 1 market-uptake action

(2014) addressed business models for PV. There was no successful proposal for the

development of the EU inorganic thin-film industry (IA in 2014).

Under the SME instrument topic, 10 feasibility studies (Phase 1, total EU contribution: EUR

0.5 million), dealing with various aspects of PV, and 4 innovation projects dealing with thin


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film PV, Building Integrated PV and Concentrated PV (Phase 2, total EU contribution: EUR 7.4

million) have been supported.

In the context of 'New Knowledge and Technologies' (see above), 2 projects have been funded (EUR

6.8 million) dealing with photovoltaics.

In addition, Photovoltaics was strongly supported by other programme parts, mainly the European

Research Council (ERC, 15 projects) and Marie-Sklodowska-Curie-Actions (17 projects), resulting in

more than 40 projects with a total 'weighted'19 EU contribution of EUR 49.1 million ('non-weighted':

EUR 63.9 million).

The total EU contribution for photovoltaics in 2014-2015 was EUR 88.1 million (EUR 39 million from

the Energy Challenge + EUR 49.1 million 'weighted' contribution from other programme parts).

For 2016-2017, the LCE call foresees specific support for:

Research actions targeting next-generation increased efficiency high-performance crystalline

silicon c-Si PV cells and modules as well as perovskite PV cells and products,

Demonstration actions for increasing the competitiveness of the EU PV manufacturing

industry and for reducing the cost of PV electricity.

Market-uptake actions on tackling bottlenecks for high penetration of PV electricity into the

electric power network.

Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)

CSP has been addressed in 2014 and 2015 by several projects:

Under the LCE call, 1 research project dealing with the cost competitiveness of CSP (2014,

EUR 6.1 million) and 2 projects addressing the environmental profile of CSP (2015, EUR 11.8

million) have been supported. Additional 2 demonstration projects aiming at improving

flexibility and predictability of CSP plants have been supported in 2014 with a total of EUR

20.7 million (no project was funded under the same challenge in 2015).

In the SME instrument call, one innovation project (phase 2) targeting improved collector

technology has been supported in 2015 (EUR 1.8 million) as well as 2 feasibility studies

(phase 1, 2014 and 2015).

The total EU contribution for CSP in 2014-2015 was EUR 40.5 million.


19 All H2020 projects funded under the calls 2014-2015 (as of November 2015) have been categorised, based on their abstract and their keywords, as either 'not relevant to energy', 'partially relevant to energy' or 'relevant for energy' (abstracts and keywords had to include an explicit reference to energy for being considered). This methodology should result in rather conservative estimations since a number 'partially relevant' projects will probably not have mentioned their energy-relevance sufficiently explicit and have therefore been considered 'not relevant'. Following the logic of the Rio-Markers, 'partially relevant' projects have been taken into account with 40% of their budget while 'relevant' projects have been taken fully into account. This categorisation can't provide exact amount but only estimates of the order of magnitudes. Other forms of support, e.g. financial instruments under the 'Access to Risk Finance' part, could not be considered in this analysis.


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Research actions for innovative components and configurations for CSP plants as well as

new cycles and innovative power blocks for CSP plants,

Demonstration actions for reducing the water consumption of CSP plants,

Market-uptake actions for facilitating the supply of electricity from CSP plants in Southern

Europe to Central and Northern European countries.

Wind energy

Wind energy has been supported under the following calls:

In the LCE call 2 research projects – one addressing floating structures (2014, EU contribution

EUR 7.3 million) and one targeting cost reduction of a floating substructure with a self-

erecting telescopic tower (2015, EU contribution: EUR 3.5 million) – have been supported. In

addition, 2 demonstration projects dealing with improved rotor blades and drive trains

(2014, EU contribution: EUR 13.9 million) and 2 demonstration projects on offshore wind

foundations and substructures (2015, EU contribution: EUR 30.4 million) have been funded.

The LCE call also supported 2 ERA-NET projects focussing on cost reductions (2014 and 2015,

total EU contribution: EUR 19.4 million).

Under the SME instrument calls, 5 projects dealing with several aspects of wind energy

haven been supported in 2014 (total EU contribution: EUR 9.1 million) and a total of 16

feasibility studies in 2014 and 2015.

Wind energy was also supported by 10 projects financed in other programme parts in 2014-2015, in

particular Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions (7 projects) with a total 'weighted' EU contribution of EUR

18.3 million ('non-weighted': EUR 27.3 million).

The total EU contribution for wind energy in 2014-2015 was EUR 102.7 million (EUR 84.4 million from

the Energy Challenge + EUR 18.3 million 'weighted' contribution from other programme parts).


Research actions on the physics of wind as a primary resource and wind energy technology,

on advanced control of large scale wind turbines and farms as well as on the reduction of

the environmental impact of wind energy,

Demonstration actions on reduced maintenance, increased reliability and extended life-time

of off-shore wind turbines/farms as well as development of cost-effective and reliable large

>10MW wind turbines,

Market-uptake actions for increasing the market share of wind energy systems.

Ocean energy

Ocean energy has been supported under the LCE call with

1 research project funded under 'New Knowledge and Technologies (2014, EU contribution:

EUR 3.5 million) aiming at early-stage breakthroughs for wave energy,

2 research projects (2015, EU contribution: 10.8 million) on tidal power and wave energy (no

research project was funded on emerging designs and components in 2014),

3 demonstration projects (2014 and 2015, total EU contribution: EUR 47.6 million), 2 of them

targeting demonstration of wave converters and 1 tidal stream turbines.


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In addition, 4 feasibility studies were financed under the SME instrument call in 2014 (EU

contribution: EUR 0.2 million) and EUR 2 million was contributed to the Blue Growth call in 2014.

The total EU contribution for ocean energy in 2014-2015 was EUR 64.1 million.


Research actions on increased performance and reliability of ocean energy subsystems and

on innovative power take-off systems and control strategies,

Demonstration actions the scaling up in the ocean energy sector to arrays and on 2nd

generation of design tools for ocean energy devices and arrays development and

deployment.

In addition, the Energy Challenge supports a coordination action on compatibility, regulations,

environmental and legal issue as regards multi-use of the oceans' marine space, offshore and near-

shore in the 2016 Blue Growth call.

Hydropower

No research project on hydropower was supported under the LCE call (proposals addressing

improved turbines/generators (2014) and the increase of ramping rates/start-stop cycles (2015) were

not successful).

However, under the SME instrument call, 1 innovation project (phase 2, 2015, EU contribution: EUR

1.1 million) on small hydropower and 1 feasibility study (2014) have been supported.


Research actions on environmentally friendly hydropower solutions and on increasing the

flexibility of hydropower.

Deep geothermal energy

Deep geothermal energy has been supported under the LCE call with the following projects:

2 research projects (2014, total EU contribution: EUR 12.1 million) dealing with novel drilling

technologies and 3 research projects (2015, total EU contribution: EUR 14.9 million)

addressing well completion and monitoring technologies, co-production of energy and

metals, as well as water jet drilling.

2 demonstration projects (2015, total EU contribution: EUR 30.7 million) supporting

enhanced geothermal systems in different geographical environments.

In addition, projects (total EU contribution: EUR million) have been supported in the area of shallow

geothermal energy (see below).

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Research actions on materials for geothermal installations, and unconventional geothermal

systems (cooperation with Mexico),

Demonstration of EGS in different geological conditions,

Market-uptake measures tackling the bottlenecks of high penetration levels for geothermal

energy systems.

Renewable heating and cooling

Renewable heating and cooling was supported under the Energy Efficiency call (10 projects, total EU

contribution: EUR 19.1 million, for detailed description see above) and the Low-Carbon Energy call:

2 research projects (2014, total EU contribution: EUR 11.8 million) on small scale Combined

Heat and Power (CHP) systems, and 2 research projects on shallow geothermal energy (2014,

EU contribution: EUR 12 million)

2 research projects (2015, total EU contribution: EUR 9 million) on biomass heating systems

and 1 research project on solar heating for industrial processes (2015, EU contribution: EUR

4.4 million),

In addition, 6 innovation projects (phase 2, 2014 and 2015, total EU contribution: EUR 9.1 million) –

addressing cooling systems, solar process heat, low-grade waste-heat, room heaters and high

concentration photovoltaic thermal energy (HCPVT) – and 11 feasibility studies (2014 and 2015, total

EU contribution: EUR 0.6 million) have been funded under the SME instrument topic.

Heating and cooling issues were also supported through 3 projects in other programme parts (Marie-

Curie Sklodowska Actions, Fast-Track-to-Innovation) with a total EU 'weighted' contribution of EUR

0.9 million (non-weighted: EUR 2.1 million).

The total EU contribution for heating and cooling in 2014-2015 was EUR 66.9 million.


Research actions on CHP, in particular as regards the transformation of renewable energy

into intermediates and on highly-efficient, low-emission medium- and large-scale biomass-

based CHP systems, as well as on shallow geothermal energy (improvement of borehole

heat exchangers),

Demonstration actions targeting geothermal systems for retrofitting buildings,

Market-uptake measures for accelerating the penetration of heat pumps for heating and

cooling purposes and on tackling the bottlenecks of high penetration levels for geothermal

energy systems.

Biofuels

Biofuels and alternative fuels have been supported under the LCE with the following activities:

2 research projects (2014, total EU contribution: EUR 10.6 million) targeting biobutanol from

lignocellulosic materials and municipal solid wastes and solar fuels using microorganisms

(alternative fuels),


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4 research projects (2015, total EU contribution: EUR 22 million) addressing biofuels from

macro-algae, 2nd generation ethanol from agricultural residues, biobutanol from agrofood

wastes and solar fuels (alternative fuels),

2 demonstration projects (2014, total EU contribution: EUR 30.2 million) on bioethanol using

exhaust gases form the steel industry or agricultural residues and wood. In 2015, no

demonstration proposal was funded (2 out of 17 proposals passed all thresholds but lost in

the competition against other renewable energy areas).

14 projects on various issues related to the market update of bioenergy (solid biomass,

biogas and bio-methane) (2014, 2015, total EU contribution: EUR 20.6 million),

transnational cooperation was supported with 1 ERA-NET Cofund action (2015, EU

contribution: EUR 8.6 million) and 1 CSA (2015, EU contribution: EUR 0.5 million).

Under the call for the SME instrument, 2 innovation projects (2014, total EU contribution: EUR 3.5

million) and 17 feasibility studies (2014 and 2015, EU contribution: EUR 0.9 million) have been

supported.

Different aspects of bioenergy have been supported also in other H2020 programme parts, notably

Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Actions and the European Research Council, with 18 projects receiving a

'weighted' EU contribution of EUR 11.6 million (non-weighted: EUR 20.5 million), while alternative

fuels were supported in 12 projects with a 'weighted' EU contribution of EUR 7.4 million (non-

weighted: EUR 11.9 million).

The total EU contribution for biofuels and alternative renewable fuels in 2014-2015 was EUR 119.8

million.


Research actions on the diversification of renewable fuel production through novel

conversion routes and novel fuels, on next generation biofuel technologies and on advanced

lignocellulosic biofuels (cooperation with Brazil),

Demonstration of the most promising advanced biofuel pathways, and pre-commercial

production of advanced aviation biofuel,

Market-uptake measures for facilitating the market roll-out of liquid advanced biofuels and

liquid renewable alternative fuels.

Renewables - Cross-cutting activities

Activities targeting the market uptake of existing/innovative renewable energy technologies and

biofuels have been supported through 23 projects in 2014 and 2015 with a total EU contribution of

EUR 40.6 million. Of the 23 projects, 9 have been addressing renewable energy technologies (EU

contribution: EUR 16.1 million) and 14 biofuels (EU contribution: EUR 24.5 million).


Research actions on integration of renewable energy technologies in the energy system,

Market-uptake measures in the areas of PV, heat pumps, CSP, wind energy, geothermal

energy and sustainable fuels.


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Integrated EU energy system

The integration of the EU energy system combines activities addressing the modernisation of the

European electricity grid as well as enhanced energy storage technologies for enhanced flexibility.

Regarding the electricity grids, the following activities have been supported in 2014 and 2015:

3 research projects (2015, total EU contribution: EUR 42.4 million) on TSO/DSO interaction,

regional grid balancing and HVAC pan-European transmission system.

3 demonstration projects (2014, total EU contribution: EUR 37.6 million) on electricity retail

markets, Low-voltage/Medium-voltage networks, and advanced tools and ICT services for

energy DSOs cooperatives and medium-size retailers,

6 demonstration projects (2014, total EU contribution: EUR 19.4 million) on smart metering

and active consumer participation,

1 demonstration project (2015, total EU contribution: EUR 39.3 million) on meshed HVDC

offshore grids,

2 coordination and support actions on smart grid communication infrastructure (2014, EU

contribution: EUR 1 million) and on ICT footprint calculation methodologies (2015, EU


1 ERA-NET Cofund (2014, EU contribution: EUR 13.5 million) supporting transnational

cooperation on smart grids.

In addition, 2 innovation projects (phase 2, 2014, total EU contribution: EUR 2.7 million) and 12

feasibility studies (2014 and 2015, total EU contribution: EUR 0.6 million) have been supported

through the SME instrument.

Smart grids have also been supported in other programme parts, notably Marie-Sklodowska-Curie

Actions and Research Infrastructures, through 11 projects with a 'weighted' EU contribution of 23.7

million (non-weighted: EUR 27.8 million).

The total EU contribution for smart grids in 2014-2015 was EUR 180.6 million.

Energy storage, intended to provide flexibility for the energy system, was supported in 2014-2015

through the following projects:

1 research project (2014, EU contribution: EUR 6.5 million) on Na-ion batteries,

6 demonstration projects (2014, total EU contribution: EUR 66.2 million) dealing with

local/small-scale storage (electricity storage, heat storage, cold storage).

2 demonstration projects (2015, total EU contribution: EUR 25 million) addressing large-scale

energy storage.

In addition, 2 innovation projects (2014 and 2015, total EU contribution: EUR 2.9 million) and 7

feasibility studies (2014 and 2015, total EU contribution: EUR 0.35 million) have been supported

under the SME instrument.

Energy storage has also been addressed in other programme parts through 35 projects with a

'weighted' contribution of EUR 58.1 million (non-weighted: EUR 72.6 million), notably the European


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Research Council (ERC, 8 projects, weighted contribution: EUR 7.5 million), Marie-Sklodowska-Curie

Actions (7 projects, weighted contribution: EUR 1.2 million), Advanced materials (5 projects,

weighted contribution: EUR 32.9 million), Smart, green and integrated transport (13 projects,

weighted contribution: EUR 14 million) and Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and

raw materials (2 projects, weighted contribution: EUR 4.9 million).

The total EU contribution for energy storage in 2014-2015 was EUR 159 million.


Research actions on next generation innovative technologies enabling smart grids, storage

and energy system integration with increasing share of renewables (electricity distribution

network) as well as on tools and technologies for coordination and integration of the

European energy system,

Demonstration actions on smart grid, storage and system integration technologies with

increasing share of renewables (distribution system) as well as on system integration with

smart transmission grid, and storage technologies with increasing share of renewables (the

main change to 2014-2015 is the compulsory integration of grid and storage),

Coordination action for supporting a R&I strategy for smart grid and storage.

Enabling the decarbonisation of the use of fossil fuels during the transition to a low-

carbon economy

Fossil-fuels related activities for the decarbonisation of the energy system have been supported

under the LCE call:

2 research projects aiming at applying CCS technology to the cement and lime sector (2014

and 2015, total EU contribution: EUR 20.7 million) and 1 project addressing advanced

sorption (2014, EU contribution: EUR 13 million).

2 research projects on geological storage of CO2 (2015, total EU contribution: EUR 28.5

million)

4 research projects (2014, total EU contribution 11.5 million) on the investigation of

environmental risks associated with shale gas exploration/exploitation.

1 research project on improving the flexibility of fossil fuel power plants (2015, EU


Transnational cooperation on CCS was supported by 1 ERA-NET Cofund action (2015, EU

contribution: EUR 12.8 million) and a CSA (2014, EU contribution: 0.8 million).

In addition, one feasibility study dealing with energy efficiency of natural gas processing facilities is

being supported under the SME instrument (phase 1).

The total EU contribution for the decarbonisation of fossil fuels in 2014-2015 was EUR 93.8 million.



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Research actions on new generation high-efficiency capture processes (cooperation with

Korea), the utilisation of captured CO2 as feedstock for the process industry, the application

of CCS in industry (including Bio-CCS) as well as geological storage pilots,

Research actions on measuring, monitoring and controlling the potential risks of subsurface

operations related to CCS, EGS and unconventional hydrocarbons,

Research actions on highly flexible and efficient fossil fuel power plants,

Transnational cooperation on applied geosciences.

Supporting the development of a European research area in the field of energy

The creation of a European Research Area has been supported through ERA-NET Cofund actions -

aiming at stimulating transnational cooperation by means of implementing joint calls – and through

dedicated support actions that targeted the coordination of national R&D activitites.

A total of 7 ERA-NET Cofund actions have been funded with a total EU contribution of 69.4 million in

the following areas:

Smart Cities and Communities (2014, EU contribution: EUR 9.1 million),

Wind energy (2 projects: 2014 - EU contribution: EUR 10.4 million; 2015 – EU contribution:

EUR 8.9 million),

Smart grids (2014, EU contribution: EUR 13.5 million),

Solar energy (2015, EU contribution: EUR 5.9 million),

Bioenergy (2015, EU contribution: EUR 8.6 million),

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) (2015, EU contribution: EUR 12.8 million),

In addition, 2 support action have been supported in the area of CCS (2014, EU contribution: EUR 0.8

million) and bioenergy (2015, EU contribution: EUR 0.5 million).

The total EU contribution for supporting the development of a European research area in the field of

energy in 2014-2015 was EUR 70.7 million.

For 2016-2017, energy calls foresee specific support for:

ERA-NET Cofunds on

o renewable energy technologies and socio-economic aspects (bottom-up),

o on local and regional energy systems,

o and on energy efficiency in industry and services,

Implementation of European Common Research and Innovation Agendas (ECRIAs) in support

of the SET Action Plan.

Social, environmental and economic aspects of the energy system

Socio-economic research has been supported by mainstreaming, i.e. embedding relevant issues in

technology-oriented topics, and through stand-alone topics.

The latter approach has resulted in the following projects funded under the LCE call:


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3 education and training networks (2014, total EU contribution: EUR 10 million) addressing

bioenergy, thermal energy storage and energy efficiency (mainly in buildings),

1 research project (2014, EU contribution: EUR 3.5 million) on human behaviour in the

energy system,

4 research projects (2015, total EU contribution: EUR 14.5 million) on modelling of the

energy system.

Under the Energy Efficiency call, 5 socioeconomic research projects have been funded in 2014 (total

EU contribution: EUR 5.1 million) addressing different aspects related to energy efficiency.

Relevant socio-economic research has also been funded in other programme parts, notably Marie-

Sklodowska-Curie Actions, through 10 projects with a total weighted contribution of EUR 5.8 million

(non-weighted: EUR 7.2 million).

The total EU contribution for socio-economic energy-relevant related in 2014-2015 was EUR 36.9

million.

For 2016-2017, the energy calls foresee specific support for:

Research on individual/collective choices and behaviour as well as on incentive structures

and framework conditions,

Research on consumer's behaviour related to energy efficiency,

Creation of a European platform for energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities research.

Smart Cities and Communities

Smart cities and Communities lighthouse projects are large, highly visible demonstration projects

that contain three main components: (i) Nearly zero energy districts; (ii) Integrated infrastructures;

and (iii) Sustainable urban mobility. A horizontal ICT component bonds the three components

together.

These large scale integrated projects are demonstrated in 21 'lighthouse cities' under the 2014/2015

H2020 calls with a strong focus on replication of bankable smart district solutions. For this reason the

consortia feature not only leading 'lighthouse cities', industry/SME and research, but also 'follower

cities' committed to replication of tested solutions in their cities.

Large CO2-emissions reductions and a leverage factor, as high as 20, are expected.

Projects in the area of Smart Cities and Communities were supported in 2014 and 2015 with:

7 large-scale demonstration projects (2014, 2015; total EU contribution: EUR 174.6 million of

which EUR 40 million have been contributed by Societal Challenge 4 "Smart, green and

integrated transport' ) supporting 'lighthouse' projects;

2 coordination and support actions (2014 and 2015; total EU contribution: EUR 2 million)

focussing on standardisation and monitoring systems;

1 ERA-NET Cofund Action (2014, EU contribution: EUR 9.1 million) targeting cross-national

cooperation.


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The total EU contribution for Smart Cities and Communities in 2014-2015 was EUR 185.7 million.

For 2016-2017, specific support is foreseen for:

Demonstration of Smart Cities and Communities lighthouse projects (less focus on

implementation of single technical solutions and more focus on integration between sectors,

innovative approaches and business models; advanced district integration concepts as

opposed to building centric approach)


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13. Gap analysis The H2020 legal base specifies the activities that the Energy Societal Challenge is supposed to cover

during the duration of the programme. The structuring of calls in 2014-2015 followed however a

different logic than that of the Specific Programme (SP). The below matches the structuring of the

both SP and WP and states the number of projects/EU contribution for each SP area.

Table 14

Areas defined in the SP Relevant calls in the WP EU contribution to projects20 (2014-2015)

EU 3.3.1. Reducing energy consumption and carbon footprint by smart and sustainable use

EU.3.3.1.1. Bring to mass market technologies and services for a smart and efficient energy use

Addressed under the Energy Efficiency call, the SME instrument topic and partially under the SCC call

100 projects with a total EU contribution EUR 194.8 million (92 projects under the EE call, 8 projects under the SME instrument call)

EU.3.3.1.2. Unlock the potential of efficient and renewable heating-cooling systems

Addressed under the Energy Efficiency call, the LCE call (Renewable electricity and heating/cooling), the SME instrument topic and partially the Smart Cities and Communities call,

20 projects with a total EU contribution of EUR 52.2 million (10 projects under the EE call, 5 projects under the LCE call and 5 projects under the SME instrument)

EU.3.3.1.3. Foster European Smart cities and Communities

Addressed under the Smart Cities and Communities call and the LCE call (ERA-NET Cofund)

10 projects with a total EU contribution of EUR 145.7 million (9 projects under the SCC call, 1 ERA-NET Cofund under the LCE call)

EU.3.3.2. Low-cost, low-carbon energy supply

EU.3.3.2.1. Develop the full potential of wind energy

Addressed under the LCE call (Renewable electricity and heating/cooling), and the SME instrument topic

13 projects with a total EU contribution of EUR 83.6 million (8 projects under the LCE call, 5 projects under the SME instrument)

EU.3.3.2.2. Develop efficient, reliable and cost-competitive solar energy systems

Addressed under the LCE call (Renewable electricity and heating/cooling), and the SME instrument topic

15 projects with a total EU contribution of EUR 72 million (10 projects under the LCE call, 5 projects under the SME instrument)

EU.3.3.2.3. Develop competitive and environmentally safe technologies for CO2 capture, transport, storage and re-use

Addressed under the LCE call (Enabling the decarbonisation of the use of fossil fuels during the transition to a low-carbon economy), and the SME instrument topic

12 projects with a total EU contribution of EUR 93.8 million

EU.3.3.2.4. Develop geothermal, hydro, marine and other renewable energy options

Addressed under the LCE call (Renewable electricity and heating/cooling)), and the SME

24 projects with a total EU contribution of EUR 145.3 million (23 projects under the

20 Projects have been classified according to their centre of gravity, no double counting unless specified. Projects of the first phase of the SME instrument have not been included in the analysis.


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instrument topic LCE call, 1 project under the SME instrument)

EU.3.3.3. Alternative fuels and mobile energy sources

EU.3.3.3.1. Make bio-energy more competitive and sustainable

Addressed under the LCE call (Sustainable biofuels and alternative fuels for the European transport mix)


EU.3.3.3.2. Reducing time to market for hydrogen and fuel cells technologies

Addressed under the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen JU and supported under the SME instrument

2 projects with a total EU contribution of EUR 4.3 million supported under the SME instrument Contribution of the Energy Challenge to the FCH JU in 2014-2015: EUR 130.6 million. The FCH JU funded 21 energy-related projects with a total EU contribution of 97.1 million

EU.3.3.3.3. New alternative fuels

Addressed under the LCE call (Sustainable biofuels and alternative fuels for the European transport mix)


EU.3.3.4. A single, smart European electricity grid

Addressed under the LCE call (Modernising the European electricity grid, and Providing the energy system with flexibility through enhanced energy storage technologies)


EU.3.3.5. New knowledge and technologies

Addressed under the LCE call (New Knowledge and Technologies)


EU.3.3.6. Robust decision making and public engagement

Addressed under the Energy Efficiency call and the LCE call (Social, environmental and economic aspects of the energy system)

13 projects with a total EU contribution of EUR 33.1 million21

EU.3.3.7. Market uptake of energy innovation

Addressed under the Energy Efficiency call, the LCE call and the Smart Cities and Communities call

97 projects with a total EU contribution of EUR 161.1 million22

All areas specified in the H2020 Specific Programme have been covered with topics and projects.

21 Of which 5 projects with a total EU contribution of EUR 5.1 million have already been accounted for under 3.3.1.1. 22 All projects have already been accounted for under other headings.


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14. Overview of funded projects per area

14.1. Energy efficiency

14.1.1. Energy efficiency – Buildings and consumers

WP Topic Project acronym Instrument EU

contribution (EUR)

2014-2015

Manufacturing of prefabricated modules for renovation of buildings (2014)

BERTIM

IMPRESS

MORE-CONNECT

IA 13.096.961,35

Buildings design for new highly energy performing buildings (2015)

ZERO-PLUS

InDeWaG IA 7.749.334,00

Energy strategies and solutions for deep renovation of historic buildings (2014)

RIBuild

RIA 4.962.375,00

Construction skills (2014)

BUStoB

ingREeS

MEnS

PROF-TRAC

Train-to-NZEB

CSA 7.196.550,22

Increasing energy performance of existing buildings through process and organisation innovations and creating a market for deep renovation (2014, 2015)

REFURB

ENERFUND

ABRACADABRA

TRANSITION ZERO

CSA 9.177.735,00

Demand response in blocks of buildings (2015)

SIMBLOCK

DR-BOB IA 8.050.662,76

Enhancing the capacity of public authorities to plan and implement sustainable energy policies and measures (2014, 2015)

FosterREG

multEE

R4E

URBAN LEARNING

EmBuild

EDI-Net

PUBLENEF

EMPOWERING

SIMPLA

INTENSSS-PA

ODYSSEE-MURE

CSA 18.806.216,00

Public procurement of innovative sustainable energy solutions (2014)

CEPPI 2

EURECA

GreenS

SPP Regions

CSA 5.817.141,83

Empowering stakeholders to assist public authorities in the definition and implementation of sustainable energy

BUILD UPON

ProCold CSA 8.591.610,50

http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/196760_en.html






















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policies and measures (2014, 2015) EU-MERCI

PremiumLight_Pro

PANEL 2050

Consumer engagement for sustainable energy (2014, 2015)

Save at Work

SMART-UP

STEP_BY_STEP

TOPTEN ACT

START2ACT

DOMINO

Digi-Label

RESCOOP Plus

CSA 11.062.658,50

New ICT-based solutions for energy efficiency (2014, 2015)

EnerGAware

ENTROPY

GreenPlay

OrbEEt

TRIBE

PEAKapp

GAIA

GREENSOUL

ChArGED

RIA 17.258.973,00

Socioeconomic research on energy efficiency (2014)

BRISKEE

COMBI

EUFORIE

HERON

IN-BEE

RIA 5.097.619,50

SME instrument – phase 2 (2015)

OptiLight

SMARTCIM

Q-Bot

SME instrument

5.437.495,88

TOTAL 62 projects 122.305.333,54 EUR

14.1.2. Energy Efficiency – Heating and Cooling


contribution (EUR)

2014-2015

Technology for district heating and cooling (2014, 2015)

FLEXYNETS OPTi

STORM E2District INDIGO

RIA 10.308.969,19

Removing market barriers to the uptake of efficient heating and cooling solutions (2014, 2015)

LabelPack Aplus HRE

SuperSmart CSA 4.812.747,50


14.1.3. Energy efficiency – Industry and products


contribution




















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(EUR)

2014-2015

Ensuring effective implementation of EU product efficiency legislation (2014, 2015)

EEPLIANT INTAS

MSTYR15 CSA 6.356.083,25

Organisational innovation to increase energy efficiency in industry (2014, 2015)

ENERWATER STEAM-UP EE-METAL WaterWatt SCOoPE

energywater

CSA 7.279.180,00

Driving energy innovation through large buyer groups (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 (2014, 2015)

TASIO SUSPIRE I-ThERM Indus3Es

RIA 15.565.933,00

SME instrument – phase 2 (2014, 2015)

CLEAN-HEAT POWERCLOUD

SmartAct-2-3 EFICONSUMPTION

EcoMultiCloud

SME instrument

5.984.225,45


14.1.4. Energy Efficiency - Financing


contribution (EUR)

2014-2015

Improving the financeability and attractiveness of sustainable energy

investments (2014, 2015)

ICPEU RentalCal RESFARM REVALUE SEI Metrics

Solar Bankability TRUST-EPC-

SOUTH ENERINVEST

BUILDINTEREST ET RISK SEFIPA SEAF

CSA 21.305.004,00

Project development assistance for innovative bankable and aggregated

sustainable energy investment schemes and projects (2014, 2015)

BEenerGI FESTA

RESCOOP MECISE

SUNShINE EnerSHIFT

LEMON

CSA 6.760.014,50

Development and market roll-out of innovative energy services and financial schemes for sustainable energy (2014,

2015)

CITYnvest EnPC-INTRANS

EPC_PLUS guarantEE

TrustEE

CSA 8.031.809,35

























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14.2. Competitive Low-Carbon Energy

14.2.1. Renewable energy

14.2.1.1. Renewable energy technologies – new knowledge and technologies


contribution (EUR)

2014-2015

New knowledge and technologies

GreenDiamond Nano-Tandem RED-Heat-to-

Power SWInG

WETFEET

RIA 18.249.638,00


14.2.1.2. Renewable energy technologies – Bioenergy and alternative fuels


contribution (EUR)

2014-2015

Developing next generation technologies for biofuels and sustainable alternative fuels (2014)

ButaNexT

Photofuel RIA 10.597.665,00

Developing next generation technologies for biofuels and sustainable alternative fuels (2015)

MacroFuels

BABET-REAL5

SUN-to-LIQUID

WASTE2FUELS

RIA 22.003.896,26

Demonstrating advanced biofuel technologies (2014)

2G BIOPIC

STEELANOL IA 30.192.059,73

Market uptake of existing and emerging sustainable bioenergy (2014)

Bin2Grid

Bioenergy4Business

BioRES

BIOSURF

greenGain

SECURECHAIN

CSA 9.627.481,75

Market uptake of existing and emerging sustainable bioenergy (2015)

BioVill

uP_running

ISABEL

BiogasAction

Biomasud Plus

FORBIO

SEEMLA

ISAAC

CSA 14.912.770,00

Supporting coordination of national R&D activities (2015)

Record Biomap CSA 499.921,00

Supporting Joint Actions on demonstration and validation of innovative energy solutions (2015)

BESTF3 ERA-NET Cofund

8.612.408,31

SME instrument – phase 2 (2014, 2015) BioValue

Hydrofaction SME

instrument 4.660.681,00




















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INSERTRONIC


14.2.1.3. Renewable energy – Photovoltaics

WP Topic Project acronym Instrument

EU contribution (EUR)

2014-2015

Developing next generation high performance PV cells and modules (2014)

CPVMatch

Sharc25 RIA 9.512.719,00

Developing very low-cost PV cells and modules (2015)

CHEOPS RIA 3.299.095,00

PV integrated in the built environment (2015)

PVSITES IA 5.463.111,75

Market uptake of existing and emerging renewable electricity, heating and cooling technologies (2014)

PV FINANCING CSA 2.050.938,75


SOLAR-ERA.NET Cofund

ERA-NET

Cofund 5.930.149,50


Cogem CPVTM

ADVANCED-BIPV

REPHLECT

NanoSol

SME instrume

nt 7.359.553,26


14.2.1.4. Renewable energy – Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)


contribution (EUR)

2014-2015

Making CSP plants more cost competitive (2014)

CAPTure RIA 6.104.032,93

Improving the environmental profile of the CSP technology (2015)

MinWaterCSP WASCOP

RIA 11.802.979,25

Improving the flexibility and predictability of CSP generation (2014)

ORC-PLUS

PreFlexMS IA 20.701.509,25

SME instrument – phase 2 (2015) HELIOtube SME

instrument 1.843.052,40


14.2.1.5. Renewable energy – Wind energy


contribution (EUR)

2014-2015

Develop control strategies and innovative substructure concepts (2014)

LIFES 50plus RIA 7.274.837,50

Substantially reduce the costs of wind energy (2015)

TELWIND RIA 3.498.530,00

Demonstrating and testing of new nacelle and rotor prototypes (2014)

EcoSwing

Riblet4Wind IA 13.898.905,39













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Demonstrating innovative substructure and floating concepts (2015)

DEMOGRAVI3

ELICAN IA 30.425.029,26

Supporting Joint Actions on demonstration and validation of innovative energy solutions (2014, 2015)

DemoWind

DemoWind 2 ERA-NET

Cofund 19.389.465,42

SME instrument – phase 2

Eciwind

IRWES

AMPYXAP3

POSEIDON

ELISA

SME instrument

9.145.697,50


14.2.1.6. Renewable energy – Geothermal energy and Heating / Cooling (H/C)


contribution (EUR)

2014-2015

Deep geothermal energy: Development of new drilling technologies and concepts for geothermal energy (2014)

DESCRAMBLE

ThermoDrill RIA 12.134.630,00

Deep geothermal energy: Development of new technologies and concepts for geothermal energy (2015)

CHPM2030

GeoWell

SURE

RIA 14.902.891,25

Deep geothermal energy: Testing of enhanced geothermal systems in different geological environments (2015)

DEEPEGS

DESTRESS IA 30.713.148,79

H/C: Improving efficiency of biomass CHP systems while widening the feedstock base (2014)

Bio-HyPP

FlexiFuel-SOFC RIA 11.764.032,50

H/C: Solar heating for industrial processes (2015)

SOLPART RIA 4.404.562,50

H/C: CHP systems while widening the feedstock base (2015)

FlexiFuel-CHX

Residue2Heat RIA 8.980.125,50

H/C: Improved vertical borehole drilling technologies to enhance safety and reduce costs (shallow geothermal energy) (2014)

Cheap-GSHPs

GEOTeCH IA 11.981.314,88

Market uptake of existing and emerging renewable electricity, heating and cooling technologies (2014, 2015)

progRESsHEAT

SDHp2m

CoolHeating

CSA 5.291.942,75


HEALEX

The Exergyn Drive

V-Tex Multi

FOCALSTREAM

Re-Deploy

SME instrument

7.912.052,49


14.2.1.7. Renewable energy – Ocean energy


contribution (EUR)
















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2014-2015

Ensure efficiency and effective long term cost reduction and high levels of reliability and survivability (2015)

PowerKite OPERA

RIA 10.815.686,25

Demonstration of ocean energy technologies (2014)

CEFOW IA 16.998.022,13

Demonstration of ocean energy technologies (2015)

UPWAVE FloTEC

IA 30.645.082,63

Contribution to the Call 'Blue Growth' 2.000.000,00


14.2.1.8. Renewable energy – Market-uptake*

WP Topic Project acronym Instrument EU contribution

(EUR)

2014-2015

Market uptake of existing and emerging renewable electricity, heating and cooling technologies (2014, 2015)

AURES

CrowdFundRES

IndustRE

progRESsHEAT**

PV FINANCING**

RiCORE

SDHp2m**

CoolHeating**

BestRES

CSA 16.074.057,25

(8.731.175,75)***

TOTAL 9 projects

(5 projects)***

16.074.057,25 (8.731.175,75)***

EUR

* Market-uptake support for bio-/renewable alternative fuels are included under 'Bioenergy'

** Projects are also listed under the corresponding thematic areas

*** Without projects already accounted under other thematic areas (see **)

14.2.2. Decarbonisation of the use of fossil fuels


contribution (EUR)

2014-2015

Enabling decarbonisation of the fossil fuel-based power sector and energy intensive industry through CCS (2014, 2015)

CEMCAP STEPWISE

STEMM-CCS LEILAC

RIA 62.178.406,0023

Understanding, preventing and mitigating the potential environmental impacts and risks of shale gas exploration and exploitation (2014)

FracRisk

M4ShaleGas

ShaleXenvironmenT

SHEER

RIA 11.540.566,75

Highly flexible and efficient fossil fuel power plants (2015)

FLEXTURBINE RIA 6.477.595,50

Supporting Joint Actions on demonstration and validation of innovative energy

ACT ERA-NET Cofund

12.814.312,50

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solutions (2015)

Supporting coordination of national R&D activities (2014)

GATEWAY CSA 787.700,00


14.2.3. Towards and integrated EU energy system


contribution (EUR)

2014-2015

Innovation and technologies for the deployment of meshed off-shore grids (2015)

PROMOTION IA 39.257.620,88

Transmission grid and wholesale market (2015)

SmartNet

FutureFlow

MIGRATE

RIA 42.377.169,75

Distribution grid and retail market (2014)

ENERGISE CSA 998.000,000

AnyPLACE

EMPOWER

Flex4Grid

FLEXICIENCY

FLEXMETER

NOBEL GRID

P2P-SmarTest

SmarterEMC2

UPGRID

IA 57.021.010,40

Supporting the community in deploying a common framework for measuring the energy and environmental efficiency of the ICT-sector (2015)

ICTFOOTPRINT.eu CSA 400.000,00

Local / small-scale storage (2014)

ELSA

NETFFICIENT

RealValue

SENSIBLE

STORY

TILOS

IA 66.177.999,37

Large scale energy storage (2015) CryoHub

STOREandGO IA 24.982.953,01

Next generation technologies for energy storage (2014)

NAIADES RIA 6.492.262,00


ERANet SmartGridPlus

ERA-NET Cofund

13.511.432,22


MobileBattery

PVPS

FCL

INCH

SME instrument

5.585.820,63


























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14.2.4. Supporting the development of a European research area in the field of

energy*


contribution (EUR)

2014-2015


DemoWind ENSCC ERANet

SmartGridPlus

ERA-NET Cofund

33.091.033,58


BESTF3 SOLAR-ERA.NET

Cofund ACT

DemoWind 2

ERA-NET Cofund

36.304.547,73

Supporting coordination of national R&D activities (2014, 2015)

GATEWAY

Record Biomap CSA 1.287.621,00


* Projects supported under this area are also listed in the relevant thematic areas

14.2.5. Social, environmental and economic aspects of the energy system*


contribution (EUR)

2014-2015

The human factor in the energy system

ENTRUST RIA 3.476.394,58

BioEnergyTrain INPATH-TES

NATCONSUMERS CSA 10.031.180,16

Modelling and analysing the energy system, its transformation and impacts

MEDEAS

REEEM

REFLEX

SET-Nav

RIA 14.512.847,50


* In the energy efficiency area, additional 5 projects focussing on socio-economic aspects of energy

efficiency have been supported with EUR 5.097.619,50.

14.2.6. Cross-cutting aspects


contribution (EUR)

2014-2015

Fostering the network of National Contact Points

C-ENERGY 2020 CSA 1.500.000,00

TOTAL 1 project 1.500.000,00 EUR












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14.3. Smart Cities and Communities


contribution (EUR)

2014-2015

Smart Cities and Communities solutions integrating energy, transport, ICT sectors

through lighthouse (large scale demonstration - first of the kind) projects

(2014)

GrowSmarter REMOURBAN

Triangulum IA 71.783.525,81

Smart Cities and Communities solutions integrating energy, transport, ICT sectors

through lighthouse (large scale demonstration - first of the kind) projects

(2015)

REPLICATE SMARTER

TOGETHER SmartEnCity SHAR-LLM

IA 102.767.255,01

Developing a framework for common, transparent data collection and

performance measurement to allow comparability and replication between

solutions and best-practice identification (2014)

CITYKEYS CSA 962.846,25

Development of system standards for smart cities and communities solutions (2015)

ESPRESSO CSA 1.059.912,50

Supporting Joint Actions on demonstration and validation of innovative energy

solutions (2014) ENSCC

ERA-NET Cofund

9.137.813,36


Projects funded under the SME instrument (phase 1) are not included.






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