Towards an effective implementation of key legislation in the field of sustainable energy
Covers up to 95% of costs for projects that help national authorities implement the Renewable Energy Directive's permitting rules or installer-training requirements.
If a project is really about district heating and cooling, or about setting up energy communities, this is not the right topic to enter under -- the Commission explicitly points those proposals to two named sibling topics, LIFE-2025-CET-DHC and LIFE-2025-CET-ENERCOM, instead. Within the permit-granting area, covering both the permitting-procedure work and the renewables-acceleration-area work toge…
For the 2025 call, this LIFE Clean Energy Transition topic funds only implementation support for the Renewable Energy Directive, focused on one of two named areas. The first helps national authorities speed up renewable-energy permit-granting procedures and designate 'renewables acceleration areas'. The second helps authorities build a framework to certify enough trained installers and designers for renewable heating, solar PV and EV-charging systems. Support for the Energy Efficiency Directive or Energy Performance of Buildings Directive isn't open under this topic in this call — those are handled elsewhere.
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