EC – Renewable associations Co-Organised Workshop: Innovation Fund 3rd Large-Scale call

The RePowerEU Plan has announced how the Innovation Fund will be strengthened to further support the EU’s independence from Russian fossil fuels.

The Commission will double the funding available for the next large-scale call of the Innovation Fund to around EUR 3 billion.

In addition, DG Climate Action is organising four different workshops together with the relevant business associations on clean tech manufacturing. The aim of the workshops is to raise awareness about the role and new possibilities under the Innovation Fund’s third call for large-scale projects in the context of REPowerEU, and to collect information about potential project pipelines, the maturity of the projects, as well as their market needs and risks. The results of the discussions held during the workshops will be published on our website.

Agenda

14:00 - Welcome & introduction – Donagh Cagney, Policy Director, Ocean Energy Europe

14:05 - The role of Innovation Fund in the context of the REPowerEU – Maria Velkova, Deputy Head of Unit, & Ewelina Daniel, Policy Officer, DG CLIMA European Commission

Focus on manufacturing projects:

14:30 - Manufacturing project presentations* - 3 projects presented
• Wind – TBC
• PV – Andreas Waltinger, Team Leader of Line Processes, Meyer Burger
• Geothermal - TBC

14:50 - Key developments, challenges and opportunities in your sectors** - 5 minute presentations from wind, PV & geothermal, followed by questions
• Wind – Iván Pineda - Director Of Innovation, Wind Europe
• PV – Naomi Chevillard, Head of Regulatory Affairs, Solar Power Europe
• Geothermal – Sanjeev Kumar, Head of Policy, European Geothermal Energy Council

15:20 ***BREAK***

Focus on mid-sized projects:

15:40 - Mid-sized project presentations* - 7 projects presented
• PV – TBC
• Wave – Sam Roch-Perks, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Simply Blue Group
• Geothermal – TBC
• Tidal – Guillaume Greau, Head of Business Development, HydroQuest
• Hydro - Jean-Louis Drommi, Electrical Expert, EDF
• Biogas - Gabor Maifeld & John Cosmo Dwelle, Landwärme

16:20 - Key developments, challenges and opportunities in your sectors**- 5 minute presentations from geothermal, ocean & hydro, followed by questions
• Geothermal – Sanjeev Kumar, Head of Policy, European Geothermal Energy Council
• Hydro – Anton Schleiss, HYDROPOWER EUROPE
• Ocean – Donagh Cagney, Policy Director, Ocean Energy Europe

Group Discussion:

16:40 - Discussion of the possible challenges for the sectors on the different elements of the call for proposals (e.g., methodology to calculate and verify emissions avoidance, definition of degree of innovation, financial maturity, calculation of additional costs, etc.)

17:25 - Conclusions & Next Steps – OEE/ALL