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EU Support Programmes
to help implement the
RES-Directive
Patrick Lambert, EACI Director
7th Inter-Parliamentary Meeting, Berlin, 5 October 2007
THE EACI
The first Executive Agency created by the Commission
- previously known as the IEEA
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…EXECUTIVE AGENCY ?
A new organisation type
created by the European
Commission
to manage EU programmes
for a limited duration, and
under Commission control
and responsibility
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OUR REMIT
Manage the following EU programmes:
Competitiveness and Innovation
Programme (CIP) 2007-13
Intelligent Energy
- Europe
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Business support
network
Eco-innovation
Marco Polo
EU Programmes – a coherent set
Intelligent Energy
- Europe
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RTD Framework
Programme
EU
Structural Funds
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INTELLIGENT ENERGY - EUROPE
€ 730 million from 2007-13
Develops and promotes policies and
favourable market conditions for
energy efficiency and renewables
Supports uptake of state of the art
technologies
Helps convert policy into action
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IEE - 350 EUROPEAN PROJECTS
Energy efficiency and rational energy use
SAVE
New and renewable energy sources
ALTENER
Energy in transport
STEER
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IEE - 60 NEW LOCAL OR REGIONAL
ENERGY AGENCIES
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POLICY AND ACTION – THE ROLE OF IEE
EU renewable
energy policy
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Changes
on the ground
WINDSKILL
Europe leads the global wind power market,
but the qualifications of installation and
maintenance staff (70% of wind workforce) are
still regulated locally or nationally
A public / private partnership in which
industry associations and academics
are working together across the EU to
produce :
European qualification profile for
onshore and offshore workers
modularised curriculum
pilot training courses
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OPTRES
Effective and cost-efficient policies are
needed to support renewables in a
liberalised European electricity market
Insight into successes and failures of
support schemes
Green-X model to determine costs and
benefits of policy options
Definition of “best practice criteria” for
support schemes
Important feedback to European and
national policy makers
www.optres.fhg.de
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ENERGY EFFICIENCY WATCH
Initiated and supported by
more than 30 members of
the European and national
Parliaments
Expected results:
Parliamentary network
Communication platform on energy efficiency
for Parliamentarians, industry and others
Evaluation of National Energy Efficiency
Action Plans to show best and worst practice
Complements the evaluation of the European
Commission
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IEE CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2008
Publication in January 2008
Some € 50 million
of funding at a rate
of up to 75%
European Info Day:
Brussels, 31 January 08
(EU Sustainable Energy Week 2008,
www.eusew.eu)
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MORE INFORMATION
IEE web site: http://ec.europa.eu/energy/intelligent/index_en.html
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Thank you for your attention!