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EU policy perspectives

InnoEnergy is a long-standing partner to the European Union to help deliver and implement clean energy and industrial transition goals. We support strong and robust policies to decarbonise faster, strengthen a competitive and resilient Single Market and ensure citizens benefit from the clean transition.

Our focus areas

24/7 decarbonised power for industry

Driving industrial transformation through electrification or low-carbon hydrogen. Our focus includes integration of innovative renewables like wave and tidal into the grid, enabling large-scale energy storage for supply security, prevention of curtailment, and grid stability. Continuing to streamline permitting processes and improved access to land and grid infrastructure are also crucial.

Made-in-Europe, sustainably

Ensuring the best business case for clean tech manufactured in the EU. Our focus includes policies to embed resilience, sustainability, traceability into EU-made products, to consolidate product demand, and to ensure fair competition with a robust trade defence toolbox. Finally, facilitating cross-border programs for re- and upskilling Europe’s workforce for new jobs in clean industries.

Public-private financing solutions

Access to public finance is a crucial factor in de-risking clean tech startups and attracting private capital. We address gaps in the public finance toolbox, and better prioritisation of current and future funds in the long-term EU budget. In addition, we focus on new, innovative public-private funding instruments to mobilise further private capital for the clean transition.

Industrial-scale clean tech in the EU

The EU’s Clean Industrial Deal offers a critical opportunity to fast-track industrial decarbonisation and expand clean technologies. A policy framework that supports the scaling of domestic clean manufacturing capacities, the building of secure and sustainable supply chains and the acceleration of access to finance for frontrunners is essential.

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InnoEnergy leads 3 industrial alliances strategic to Europe

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European Battery Alliance (EBA250)

Launched in 2017 by the European Commission, mandated to be led by InnoEnergy. It brings together more than 800 industrial, financial and innovation actors from mining to recycling with the common objective to build a strong, competitive and resilient European battery industry. EBA works towards quadrupling the European battery cell capacity to between 400 and 500 GWh by 2030. This would meet the Net Zero Industry Act target of 40% domestic manufacturing capacity, thereby empowering the European car industry and other sectors in a more sustainable, competitive, and resilient manner.

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European Solar PV Industry Alliance (ESIA)

The alliance aims to accelerate solar PV deployment in the EU by scaling-up to 30 GW of annual solar PV manufacturing capacity in Europe, facilitating investment, derisking sector acceleration, to support Europe’s decarbonisation targets. Launched by the European Commission in 2022, EIT InnoEnergy leads the alliance as Secretariat and alongside SolarPower Europe and the European Solar Manufacturing Council who are on the steering committee.

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The European Green Hydrogen Acceleration Centre (EGHAC)

EGHAC focuses on building the business case for and accelerating the uptake of industrial low-carbon hydrogen projects for specific hard-to-abate sectors such as steel, fertilisers and aviation. EGHAC collaborates with the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance (ECH2A) to accelerate and de-risk their pipeline of hydrogen projects.

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