The European Fee has chosen 4 challenge research for a complete funding assist of EUR 1.02 million ($1.1 million) beneath the 2023 Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) for Power name.
The research will assess deliberate cross-border photo voltaic and offshore wind initiatives involving Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Poland and Portugal for feasibility or to organize them for implementation, based on an announcement by the Fee’s European Local weather, Infrastructure and Surroundings Government Company.
The CEF for Power is a funding program to implement the EU’s Trans-European Networks for Power (TEN-E) Regulation, which goals to hyperlink nationwide and regional energy and pure fuel infrastructure for integration right into a single market.
One of many 4 research is for a challenge known as the Pomeranian Inexperienced Hydrogen Cluster, which plans to develop a cluster of wind and photovoltaic manufacturing websites, electrolyzers and ancillary pipelines connecting renewable energy and hydrogen manufacturing amenities to prospects.
One other challenge plans to construct a radial wind farm on the Danish aspect of the Baltic Sea that may connect with the German grid.
Madoqua Inexperienced Fuels Terminal Lda, in the meantime, plans to construct a solar-powered inexperienced gas storage and bunkering terminal on the Port of Sines in Portugal. “The challenge will speed up massive scale deployment of renewable era to be reworked into inexperienced methanol, biogenic CO2 and inexperienced ammonia, and exported to different EU Member States in Northwestern Europe hub”, the Fee govt company mentioned.
Rounding up the grant selectees is a research for the potential of setting up a wind farm within the North Sea for connection to a high-voltage direct present hybrid interconnection. The deliberate challenge would serve Germany and Scotland.
Earlier this 12 months the Fee supplied as much as EUR 850 million ($919.9 million) for the inaugural grant of the revised TEN-E Regulation, implement June 2022 to align with the European Union’s purpose of turning right into a net-zero emissions economic system by 2050.
The supply is for cross-border carbon seize amenities, vitality storage amenities, fuel pipelines, hydrogen market hubs and energy grid interconnections.
The supply is restricted to the preapproved checklist of so-called initiatives of frequent curiosity and initiatives of mutual curiosity, formulated beneath the TEN-E Regulation and printed November 28, 2023, as Regulation 2022/869. For the primary time, offshore electrical energy grids and hydrogen initiatives can qualify for TEN-E assist.
TEN-E initiatives obtain EU help by means of the 2021–27 CEF for Power, which has a price range of practically EUR 6 billion ($6.5 billion).
“Whereas fossil gas initiatives have been excluded in precept from eligibility to PCI/PMI standing and CEF Power, new varieties of initiatives resembling offshore electrical energy grids and hydrogen initiatives have turn out to be eligible”, the Fee mentioned April 30 in a name for proposals.
Accepted proposals for CEF Power funding beneath the revised TEN-E Regulation are for challenge research and development works. Within the inaugural supply, builders have till October 22, 2024, to make submissions. The Fee plans to announce outcomes subsequent 12 months.
The pre-approved checklist goals to scale up cleaner vitality within the 27-member area, in addition to assist member states whose grid remains to be linked to Russia emigrate their energy distribution system to continental Europe.
The pre-approved initiatives embody north-south energy interconnections within the Baltics, Central Jap Europe, Southeastern Europe and Western Europe; offshore grids within the Atlantic, North Sea, Jap Europe, Southern Europe and Western Europe; hydrogen production-distribution networks within the Baltics, Central Jap, Southeastern and Western Europe; and carbon seize and storage networks within the Baltics, the Mediterranean, the North Sea and between Croatia and Hungary.
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