Research, Innovation & Development

The Batteries Strategy cannot be implemented without a sustainable supply of Lithium, with security of supply ‘Made in Europe’.

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The first Horizon Europe Strategic Plan will define the strategic orientations for Europe’s R&I investments over the period 2021-2024. Among its recommendations, EGEC underlined the R&I funding needs for innovative technologies, like geothermal lithium.

EGEC, together with eight renewable associations, urged the European Commission to maintain the Horizon Europe budget for Cluster 5 (Climate, Energy and Mobility) and the climate-relevant parts of Cluster 4 (Digital, Industry and Space) at least at the levels outlined in the Commission’s original June 2018 proposal. More details here.

EGEC responded to the Inception Impact Assessment (IIA) on the European initiative on the use of Galileo in Critical Infrastructures.

EGEC and two other associations sent a joint letter to Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, proposing to close the gap in the Green Deal Call when dealing with Geothermal District Heating.

EGEC supports the European Commission’s proposal to create a Common European energy dataspace that will focus on the improvement of the interoperability in smart buildings and products.

In April 2020 the European Commission has launched an online public consultation process (questionnaire) that aims to outline the first Multiannual Work Programme of LIFE covering the period 2021-2024.

Following the proposal in the PPE (multiannual programming for energy) by the French Government to stop financial support to geothermal electricity, EGEC and the French industry call for a stable and forward looking framework.

As part of the Decarbheat initiative, which gathers several heating and cooling industry associations with the objective to advocate for European policies that are in line with the decarbonisation of the heating and cooling sector, EGEC co-signed a press release on the topic of the European Green Deal.