The competitiveness of European industry and its interdependent relationship with decarbonisation sits at the centre of the European Union’s policy agenda, as put forward by Commission President Von der Leyen’s political guidelines and the European Council Strategic Agenda 2024-2029. The fundamental relationship between competitiveness and decarbonisation pathways is also advocated by Mario Draghi’s report “The future of European...
Policy Papers
Joint letter to EIB calling for expanding EIB guarantees to unlock EU industrial competitiveness.
This Friday, the European Investment Bank (EIB) Board of Governors will approve its new Strategic Roadmap for 2024-2027, which will support the EU build leadership and competitiveness in strategic cleantech sectors. Together with a group of 39 European cleantech innovators, investors, industry associations, researchers and NGOs, we have sent a letter to EIB President Nadia...
Joint Open Letter: Updated national Long-Term Strategies needed
WWF, EUREC and 20 other organisations have sent an open letter to the European Commission, encouraging the institution to push EU Member States to update their national Long Term Strategies (nLTS) along with the revision of their National Energy & Climate Plans (NECPs) which is currently taking place. As the NECPs only outline a plan...
Joint-letter Over 200 stakeholders call for a European geothermal strategy and action plan
The letter, sent on 5th June 2024, recommended the European geothermal strategy and action plan incorporate: A target of 250 GWs of new electricity, heating and cooling supplied energy by 2040 in public, residential and commercial buildings; agriculture; transport and manufacturing sectors; Harmonisation and development of new support schemes, including cross-border financial risk guarantees; Endorsement of...
Open Letter to leading EU candidates – Europe needs a Cleantech Competitiveness Deal
In the wake of the European Council’s call for a new Competitiveness Deal and Enrico Letta’s report on the Single Market, and ahead of the European Parliament’s vote on the Net Zero Industry Act on Thursday, 24 leading cleantech scale ups, investors, industry associations and think tanks – including EUREC – have signed an open...
Critique of Draft NECPs 2023 coverage of Research, Innovation & Competitiveness for ten Member States
The NECPs will, as the European Commission noted, need a “renewed and stronger focus on competitiveness, innovation and investments within the Energy Union.” With the Net Zero Industry Act agreed and set to become law by the time final version of NECPs must be submitted (30 June 2024), Member States should, in the time remaining,...
Joint Open letter: Delivering a Net Zero Industry Act that is strategic, targeted and impactful
The world is entering a new era of cleantech competition. According to the IEA, well-designed industrial strategy is key. China, the USA and Japan are all moving quickly to ensure they capture their share of a cleantech market likely to reach $650 billion by 2030, delivering long-term competitiveness for their economies, green jobs for their citizens, support for their climate goals,...
Joint Press release: Building a Greener Future — European PV Industry and Researchers United for an Ecodesign Reform
Representatives from prominent European PV research institutes and organizations, European PV associations, and European PV manufacturers have come together to advocate for changes in the proposed methodologies for the Ecodesign and Energy Label legislation. In a joint letter addressed to the European Commission (February 1st 2024), they emphasize the need for regulations that serve the climate, the environment...
Open letter: EU needs to up its investment game if it wants to become the home of cleantech
Last year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, President Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission announced a Green Deal Industrial Plan to make Europe the “home of cleantech.” This was a sorely needed response to the US Inflation Reduction Act, creating a path to de-risk green supply chains, reduce the cost of the transition and reclaim EU strategic...
Joint Letter: Make the most of the SGP reform for green investment in the EU
To achieve the green transition, the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) needs to be redesigned to incentivise Member States to invest. The current reform proposal on the table, however, falls short of the EU’s ambition to achieve the green transition. To address this shortcoming, seven organisations including EUREC have signed an Open Letter which...
Use EPBD to promote sharing of anonymised building energy management system data
The European Commission, Council and European Parliament all agree that “Member States shall ensure that building owners, tenants and managers can have direct access to their building systems’ data” and that “At their request, the access or data shall be made available to a third party.” This is good; it allows building owners, tenants or...
Open letter: Delivering a Net Zero Industry Act that is strategic, targeted & impactful!
The world is entering a new era of cleantech competition. According to the IEA, well-designed industrial strategy is key. China, the USA and Japan are all moving quickly to ensure they capture their share of a cleantech market likely to reach $650 billion by 2030, delivering long-term competitiveness for their economies, green jobs for their citizens, support for their climate goals,...
Joint-statement to support the Delegated Act on the additionality of Renewable Hydrogen
The Delegated Act on the additionality of Renewable Hydrogen brings regulatory certainty for market growth. Ahead of tomorrow’s vote by the European Parliament, more than 60 companies and organisations asked Members of the European Parliament and Member States to support the Delegated Act on the additionality of Green Hydrogen. Read the statement here.
Over 40 organisations are calling on the EU to make a success of the proposed Green Deal Industrial Plan.
Forty organisations representing business innovation, green growth associations, clean tech entrepreneurs, think-tanks, institutes and NGOs are calling on the EU to make a success of the proposed Green Deal Industrial Plan. In a letter to EU leaders, signatories offer guidance and call for rapid action on ten priority measures before this week’s Special European Council...
ETIP-PV supports “at least 5% innovative renewables”
The European Technology and Innovation Platform for Photovoltaics (ETIP PV) supports “at least 5% innovative renewables” in Renewable Energy Directive revision. Read the position paper here.
A Brief Look at Europe’s Innovation Potential
EUREC previously released two reports in support of the European Parliament’s proposed amendment to the Renewable Energy Directive (“RED III”) calling for at least 5% of new renewable energy capacity to be of innovative renewable energy technology. This important and timely idea will speed up the commercialization of new, high-quality, European-made renewable energy technology across...
Joint Open letter: Protecting the Innovation Fund to ensure real climate action and support industrial transformation
A strong reform of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) is needed in order to rapidly reduce emissions from the goods and services Europe produces. Supporting clean technologies and innovation through the Innovation Fund is crucial to ensure the necessary tools to decarbonise, such as hydrogen, next generation renewables, carbon capture and storage, and carbon...
Joint-statement: Blue is not Green
50 industrial players, NGOs and think tanks come together to call on the Council of the European Union to reject an amendment that would allow low-carbon hydrogen to meet renewable hydrogen targets for industry & transport in the Renewable Energy Directive. Read the joint statement here.
Press Release: 5% of new capacity from “Innovative” Renewable Energy: A necessary and do-able enhancement to the Renewable Energy Directive
EUREC has released two reports in support of the European Parliament’s proposed amendment to the Renewable Energy Directive (“RED III”) calling for at least 5% of new renewable energy capacity to be of innovative renewable energy technology (Article 3). The report is EUREC’s latest effort to promote awareness of this important and timely idea. Through...
EU Investors and Thought-Leaders Join to defend Innovation Fund
The EU is considering slashing the size and diluting the focus of the ETS Innovation Fund, its main vehicle for financing the scale-up of clean technologies, to finance the REpowerEU plan. This at a time when the US is announcing unprecedented hundreds of billions of dollars of tax credits, grants and loans for clean technologies. EUREC, together...
Joint Letter: Renewables displace fossil fuels – the Innovation Fund must recognise this
Renewables displace fossil fuels; in doing so, they make a critical contribution to decarbonisation. EUREC, together with 11 associations, therefore welcomes the efforts to rebalance the Innovation Fund to better include renewable energy. The ‘clean tech manufacturing’ and ‘mid-sized & highly innovative’ windows are particularly important for renewables. These windows can deliver a wide range...
Press Release: The Renewable Energy Directive must drive the market uptake of innovative renewable technologies
Leading renewable energy industry federations, think tanks and research centres call for faster market uptake of renewable sources and next-generation RES technologies. BRUSSELS, 20 June 2022. The twin geopolitical and energy crises have thrown into sharp relief the high costs of Europe’s continued fossil gas dependency. Rising prices and supply threats clearly highlight the necessity...
Investors and civil society call for prioritizing climate and energy security in the 2023-24 Horizon Europe Work Programme
On 9 June 2022, 17 cleantech investors and NGOs signed an open letter to prioritise climate and energy security in Horizon Europe. Research and Innovation (“R&I”) has been at the heart of the European project and collaboration since 1984. Horizon Europe is the EU’s flagship R&I funding programme and with its budget of €95.5 billion,...
Joint-letter on how cleantech innovation will boost the Repowering of the EU
On 6 June 2022, EUREC, together with 11 organisations and investors, contributed to a joint-letter on how cleantech innovation will boost the Repowering of the EU. When Vladimir Putin’s forces invaded Ukraine three months ago, Europe’s fossil energy and resource dependence was exposed. Today, just like after the first oil shock in 1973 that spurred...
EUREC statement on data sharing in the Renewable Energy Directive
EUREC has long been keen to support measures to promote digitalisation and data sharing in the renewable energy space (i.e. through our Special Issue) and our DG Energy event this past February). We have therefore organised a statement to endorse data-friendly amendments to the upcoming Renewable Energy Directive revision (RED III). MEP Eva Maydell (EPP)...
Pan-renewables Innovation Fund joint letter
The Innovation Fund is the EU’s most impactful tool to drive clean energy innovation. But its award criteria put renewable projects at a structural disadvantage. This is contrary to the original policy intent. And it undermines the REPowerEU objective of substituting fossil fuels with renewables. EUREC, together with 8 renewable energy organisations, therefore calls upon...
Joint-letter proposing FitFor55 policy changes & investment to act for peace, freedom and our climate future
On 24 March 2022, EUREC contributed to a joint letter “To REPowerEU we must REPower Cleantech”. Fifteen organisations joined forces in a letter proposing FitFor55 policy changes & investment to act for peace, freedom and our climate future. This letter was addressed to the EU Commission, EU Parliament and 27 Permanent Representations of EU Member States. Since then,...
MEP Markus Pieper Advocates for Innovation in Amendments on ‘Fit for 55’
The ‘draft report’ of amendments to the Renewable Energy Directive proposed by MEP Markus Pieper (CDU, EPP) has been published and can be found here. Dr Pieper is the Member of the European Parliament who will lead the process to create and negotiate that institution’s position on the Directive. Explaining his amendments in a...
EC responds to EUREC ‘Access to documents’ official request: find here the Memoranda of Understanding of H Eu’s first 11 co-programmed European Partnerships
In June 2021 during the R&I Days, the European Commission signed Memoranda of Understanding with 11 entities representing the industry interest behind certain Horizon Europe research themes. Following an “Access to Documents” request by EUREC, the Memoranda of Understanding has been released to us. Contents The MoU set out the terms under which the...
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