Project Development Assistance for sustainable energy investments
Pays EUR 1-1.5 million in technical assistance to project developers who turn sustainable energy ideas into launched, bankable investments, and expects at least EUR 15 of private investment triggered for every EUR 1 of EU support.
Technical assistance can cover bundling several projects together, running technical studies and energy audits, working through financing options, giving legal advice, preparing tendering procedures, and reaching out to stakeholders, and proposals can build on investment concepts already developed under the European City Facility or LIFE CET's support for heating networks and industrial clusters. …
LIFE Clean Energy Transition wants Project Development Assistance that helps public or private project promoters — public authorities, energy agencies, energy service companies, retail chains, large property owners, industry — turn sustainable energy project ideas into actually-launched, bankable investment pipelines. Eligible sectors include building renovation, district heating and cooling, public infrastructure, industry and clean urban mobility, and proposals should show organisational or financial innovation, such as blending public and private funding or new facilitation structures.
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