Industrial Energy: Renewable Heat and Storage
Funds €7–9M projects that replace fossil process energy with renewable heat, electrification and resilient industrial storage.
Energy-intensive process industries need to cut emissions while keeping plants productive when renewable electricity and heat are variable. This two-stage topic funds integrated solutions that replace fossil energy inputs, lower demand, improve efficiency and store or manage energy across the production process.
Projects can address low- and medium-temperature heat with renewable sources, heat pu…
Developing and demonstrating integrated renewable-energy, electrification, hybrid heating, energy-management and storage solutions for energy-intensive process industries. Projects should reduce process GHG emissions by at least 20%, address low/medium and high-temperature inputs, manage fluctuating renewable supply, use advanced materials where relevant, and validate technologies at pilot scale in real industrial conditions.
Sign up free to see the funding breakdown
Sign up free to see the industries in scope
Sign up free to see the full eligibility
Sign up free to see how to apply
Sign up free to see what you submit
Sign up free to see how they score you
Sign up free to see the timeline
Sign up free to see where teams trip up
Guides for this application
All guides →Horizon Europe Grants for Startups: A Founder Guide
A practical guide to Horizon Europe grants for startups, including EIC, consortia, eligibility, Funding & Tenders, TRL, budgets, and EU strategy.
Start hereTRL Levels Explained for Deeptech Founders
Learn what TRL levels mean, how to estimate technology readiness, and how TRL affects grants, EIC Accelerator, SBIR/STTR, funding stage, and application evidence.
Write proposalHow to Write a Grant Proposal Reviewers Can Score
Learn how to write a grant proposal around reviewer criteria, evidence, work packages, budget logic, and commercialization for deeptech and R&D funding.
DocumentsGrant Work Plan Template: Work Packages, Gantt, Milestones, and Risks
Use this grant work plan template to structure work packages, tasks, owners, deliverables, Gantt timing, dependencies, and risk registers.
More from European Commission
All grants from this funder →Digital Europe Programme
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds Europe-wide digital capability development in AI, cybersecurity, semiconductors, hardware, and IoT.
Crime prevention approaches, online and off-line, tackling the nexus between addictions and crime
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research and pilot collaboration between police authorities and civil-society groups to prevent addiction-linked crime across the EU.
Horizon Border Security: Accessible Travel Facilitation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4M border-crossing tech projects, run with Border or Coast Guard Authorities, built for travelers with disabilities or low digital skills.
Horizon Border Security: Age Assessment Reliability
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €1.33M project, run with border and coast guard authorities, that compares how reliable different ways of estimating a young migrant's age really are.
Horizon Border Security: Surveillance & Drone Detection
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €6M projects that build border detection and surveillance tech, run jointly with national Border and Coast Guard authorities.
Horizon Civil Security: Bioterrorism Prevention
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €3M project that reviews how synthetic biology could be misused for bioterrorism and pinpoints where monitoring and regulation fall short.
Similar grants
Browse the directory →
TÜBİTAK 1509 — International Industrial R&D Grant (Seed)
🇹🇷TÜBİTAK · Türkiye
Supports Turkish participants in international research consortia through joint development partnerships with overseas programmes.
EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Advanced Materials for Miniaturised Energy Harvesting Systems
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports developing advanced materials for miniaturised energy harvesters to power IoT and sensor networks autonomously.
Energy Efficiency Loan with Capital Discount
🇱🇻ALTUM · Latvia
Funds enterprise energy-efficiency and renewable upgrades in Latvia through discounted financing.
DRIVE35 Supplier Readiness and Transformation Fund
🇬🇧WMCA · United Kingdom
Funds West Midlands businesses scaling EV supply-chain manufacturing capacity through capital grants.
Horizon Europe EIC Accelerator — Estonian Applicant Support
🇪🇪EIS · Estonia
Funds research teams and institutions for Horizon Europe EIC Accelerator Estonian Applicant Support in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and climate technology.
Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future
🇮🇪Research Ireland · Ireland
Funds high-risk investigator-driven research in Ireland across frontier technology and translational discovery.