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Funds up to EUR 1.5 million (95% of costs) to set up and pilot an innovative financing scheme that pulls private capital into energy efficiency and renewables investments.
The topic responds to the European Green Deal and REPowerEU's push to cut fossil-fuel imports, aiming to mobilise more private capital into energy efficiency and renewables because most investors still see these projects as risky, complex or insufficiently profitable at the scale financial institutions expect. Applicants must define their target region and sector, prove the scheme is genuinely add…
LIFE Clean Energy Transition wants applicants to design, launch and pilot-test a new financing scheme that mobilises private finance for energy efficiency, potentially combined with renewables and energy storage, in at least one eligible country. Eligible mechanisms include blended grants and loans, guarantees and risk-sharing instruments, on-bill or on-tax financing, green bonds and securitisation, crowdfunding, and brokering platforms that match sustainable-energy demand with supply. The scheme must be operational with a real pipeline of investments by the end of the project, even if the investments themselves close afterward.
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