31 July 2025 EUREC submitted input to the European Commission’s public consultation on the Data Union Strategy on 20 July. The input advocated for clear and comprehensive data sharing policies as essential to Europe’s future renewable energy systems. Particularly when it comes to the use of data in Artificial Intelligence (AI), an effective AI ecosystem...
8 July 2025 On 7 July 2025, EUREC has joined more than 60 other organisations to call for the Commission to include an ambitious horizontal spending target for investments in climate and the environment in the post‑2027 Multiannual Financial Framework. Dedicating part of the overall EU budget to the climate is a simple, effective tool...
30 June 2025 On 30 June 2025, EUREC, along with 11 organisations representing clean technology innovators and renewable energy sectors from across Europe, sent a joint letter to the Commission President on the future of research and innovation. This letter underlines that the best way to support science and competitiveness in Europe is via a...
20 June 2025 On 27 May the European Commission released a Communication on its “EU-wide assessment of the final updated national energy and climate plans Delivering the Union’s 2030 energy and climate objectives” (COM(2025) 274). It claimed 10 Member States had “set ambitious targets for newly installed capacity by 2030, aiming to meet the indicative 5%...
21 May 2025 On 23 May 2025, European ministers will meet at the Competitiveness Council to focus on the next EU Research and Innovation program. Together with 12 other European organizations, we have signed a joint letter to EU institutions ahead of this meeting. We urge policymakers to maintain Europe’s long-term excellence in research and innovation...
17 April 2025 As the European Commission is set to reach a decision on the new Framework Programme (FP10), several ETIPs and renewable energy organisations have come together to advocate for political support and increased funding of “Pillar 2”. As the part of Horizon Europe that funds collaborative research, Pillar 2 is essential for Europe’s...
3 April 2025 The European Commission’s Clean Industrial Deal was published on 26 February. This roadmap communication proposes to “launch a flagship Horizon Europe call of ca. EUR 600 million under the 2026-2027 work programme to support fit-for-deployment projects. This will aim at fostering synergies between the Framework Programme for R&I and the Innovation Fund, creating...
EUREC has sent a letter to decision makers in the European Commission with priorities for the upcoming European Research and Innovation Framework Programme (FP10), particularly in terms of its budget, and which reiterates the importance of collaborative research. EUREC’s members, as representatives of the research community in Europe, have been involved in renewable energy R&D...
5 February 2025 – EUREC has endorsed an open letter – co-written and signed by 15 other renewable energy associations – on the need for the Clean Industrial Deal (CID) to have a “bold strategy to reinforce Europe’s Global Leadership in Cleantech and build a Competitive Net Zero Economy.” The letter highlights the fact that...
18 June 2024 – 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...
13 June 2024 – 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...
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...
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...
12 March 2024 – 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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...