欧盟将向清洁技术项目投资10亿欧元

据油气新闻网7月6日布鲁塞尔报道，欧盟委员会最近启动了创新基金下的第一个提案，该基金将为清洁技术的大型项目提供10亿欧元的资助，以帮助它们克服商业化和大规模示范的风险。

这种支持将有助于新技术进入市场。对于尚未准备上市的有前景的项目，将单独拨出800万欧元的预算用于项目发展援助。

创新基金将资助可再生能源、能源密集型产业、能源存储以及碳捕获、使用和存储等领域的突破性技术。它将通过创造当地的未来就业机会，为气候中和铺平道路，并加强欧洲在全球范围内的技术领导地位，从而推动绿色复苏。

执行副总裁弗朗斯·蒂默曼斯（Frans Timmermans）表示，这项提案征集恰逢适当时机。 欧盟将投资10亿欧元用于有前途的，市场准备好的项目，例如清洁氢或其他低碳解决方案，用于钢铁，水泥和化工等能源密集型行业。 我们还将支持储能，电网解决方案以及碳捕集与封存。 这些大规模投资将有助于重启欧盟经济，并实现绿色复苏，从而引领我们在2050年实现气候中和。

在2020-2030年期间，除了来自创新基金前身NER 300计划的未支付收入外，创新基金还将从欧盟排放交易体系下的拍卖配额中拨出约100亿欧元。

该呼吁对所有欧盟成员国、冰岛和挪威符合条件的行业的项目开放。这些资金可以与其他公共资助计划合作使用，例如国家援助或欧盟其他资助计划。

将根据项目避免温室气体排放的潜力、创新潜力、资金和技术成熟度、扩大规模和成本效益的潜力对项目进行评估。提交申请的截止日期是2020年10月29日。项目可以通过欧盟资助和招标门户网站申请，那里有关于整个程序的更多细节。

该创新基金旨在为企业和政府当局提供适当的财政激励，鼓励他们现在就投资下一代低碳技术，并让欧盟企业拥有成为全球技术领导者的先发优势。

郝芬 译自 油气新闻网

原文如下：

EU to invest €1bn in clean technology projects

The European Commission recently launched the first call for proposals under the Innovation Fund, which will provide grant funding of €1 billion to large-scale projects for clean technologies to help them overcome the risks linked to commercialisation and large-scale demonstration.

This support will help new technologies to reach the market. For promising projects which are not yet ready for market, a separate budget of €8 million is set aside for project development assistance.

The Innovation Fund will finance breakthrough technologies for renewable energy, energy-intensive industries, energy storage, and carbon capture, use and storage. It will provide a boost to the green recovery by creating local future-proof jobs, paving the way to climate neutrality and reinforcing European technological leadership on a global scale.

Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans said: “This call for proposals comes at just the right time. The EU will invest €1 billion in promising, market-ready projects such as clean hydrogen or other low-carbon solutions for energy-intensive industries like steel, cement and chemicals. We will also support energy storage, grid solutions, and carbon capture and storage. These large-scale investments will help restart the EU economy and create a green recovery that leads us to climate neutrality in 2050.”

For the period 2020-2030, the Innovation Fund will allocate around €10 billion from the auctioning of allowances under the EU Emissions Trading System, in addition to undisbursed revenues from the Innovation Fund's predecessor, the NER 300 programme.

The call is open for projects in eligible sectors from all EU Member States, Iceland and Norway. The funds can be used in cooperation with other public funding initiatives, such as State aid or other EU funding programmes.

Projects will be evaluated according to their potential to avoid greenhouse gas emission, innovation potential, financial and technical maturity, and potential for scaling up and cost efficiency. The deadline for submission of applications is October 29, 2020. Projects can apply via the EU Funding and Tenders portal where more details on the overall procedure are available.

The Innovation Fund aims to create the right financial incentives for companies and public authorities to invest now in the next generation of low-carbon technologies and give EU companies a first-mover advantage to become global technology leaders.