In the EU, polluters have to pay for their greenhouse gas emissions via the Emissions Trading System (ETS). The money raised via the ETS is reinvested into the Innovation Fund: one of the world’s largest funding programmes for innovative low-carbon technologies. What projects does the Innovation Fund support? Discover them in the table below -just click on the name of a project to see its factsheet.
In the ‘main technology pathways’ column, you can find the different technologies used to reduce greenhouses gases. For projects that are already being implemented, you can find up to date quantitative information through the dashboards developed by the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA).
We will also be gradually sharing a few project stories, which will tell you all about how the projects are helping people and business.
| Project | Type of project | Category | Sector | Location | Main technology pathways | Project stories | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO2ncrEAT: Integrated low carbon footprint solution for cement-free building products by using exhaust CO2 gas from lime manufacturing plant and wasted by-product from stainless steel production | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Glass, ceramics and construction material | Belgium | CO2 use and permanent sequestration in building materials | Invited for grant preparation | |
| CIRQLAR: Low temperature heat recovery and upgrade for industrial use by heat pumps | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Other | Spain | Waste heat recovery and upgrade | Invited for grant preparation | |
| BEAR: A first of a kind HyBrid REgenerative glAss fuRnace | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Glass, ceramics and construction material | Slovenia | Hybrid glass furnace; electrification | Invited for grant preparation | |
| SOL: Sugar: the gOdfather of fueLs | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Refineries | Netherlands | Using sugar for producing a sustainable marine fuel blend component for heavy fuel oil | Invited for grant preparation | |
| InnoSolveGreen: Demonstrating a novel Energy-as-a-Service solution for industrial sector energy consumers | Small-scale | Energy storage | Other energy storage | Lithuania | Solar PV-plus-storage system | Invited for grant preparation | |
| Listlawelbattcool: An energy and resource efficient battery cooler technology | Small-scale | Energy storage | Manufacturing of components for production of renewable energy or energy storage | Czechia, France, Spain | Battery cooler technology for Electric Vehicles | Invited for grant preparation | |
| HyPush: Construction of a fuel cell pusher boat operating with two hydrogen fuel cells and a lithium battery designed for inland river navigation | Small-scale | Renewable energy | Use of renewable energy outside Annex I of the EU ETS Directive | France | Hydrogen-powered pusher boat for inland river navigation | Invited for grant preparation | |
| VOZARTEK: Initiating the Production of Green Hydrogen for Transport and Other Applications in the Czech Republic | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Refineries | Czechia | Hydrogen production by electrolysis powered by solar PV and biomass combined heat and power (CHP) | Invited for grant preparation | |
| HFP: A first of a kind Hybrid Furnace Project for glass wool production | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Glass, ceramics and construction material | Netherlands | Hybrid glass wool furnace; electrification | Invited for grant preparation | |
| CLYNGAS: first of a kind technology to Substitute petroleum coke in the cement industry by synthesis gas (syngas) generated from gasification of stabilized refused derived fuels | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Cement and lime | Spain | Syngas from waste residues | Invited for grant preparation | |
| PRIMUS: Prime Manufacturing of crystal glass under innovative Solution | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Glass, ceramics and construction material | Italy | Hybrid furnace and waste heat recovery | Invited for grant preparation | |
| AGRIVOLTAIC CANOPY: The Brouchy Agrivoltaic Canopy - An acceleration toward energy transition | Small-scale | Renewable energy | Solar energy | France | Photovoltaic panels in agriculture | Invited for grant preparation | |
| SUSTAIN-SEA: Reducing maritime transport CO2 emissions using wind | Small-scale | Renewable energy | Wind energy | Spain | Reducing fuel consumption in maritime transport through wind energy. | Invited for grant preparation | |
| GeoHuberila: An innovative heating and cooling system for Huberila | Small-scale | Renewable energy | Geothermal energy | Finland | Geothermal heating and cooling system | Invited for grant preparation | |
| GreenH2CY: Green Hydrogen Project for Transport in Cyprus | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Refineries | Cyprus | Green hydrogen for transport applications | Invited for grant preparation | |
| VITRUM: Virtuous Innovative Transformation of high-quality container glass manufacturing | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Glass, ceramics and construction material | Italy | Hybridization, energy efficiency, circularity, digitalisation and automation solutions | Invited for grant preparation | |
| GreenH2: Small-scale green hydrogen production facility | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Hydrogen | Poland | Hydrogen production through 1 MW electrolyser + photovoltaic plant + energy management system + waste heat recovery system | Invited for grant preparation | |
| HH: Holland Hydrogen | Large-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Hydrogen | Netherlands | Hydrogen production through 400MW electrolyser + offshore wind energy | Grant signed | |
| PULSE: Pretreatment and Upgrading of Liquefied waste plastic to Scale up circular Economy | Large-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Chemicals | Finland | Chemical recycling of waste plastics – feedstock for refinery | Grant signed | |
| N2OWF: Nordsee Two Offshore Windfarm Innovation Project | Large-scale | Renewable energy | Wind energy | Germany | 450 MW offshore wind with 15 MW turbines + electrolyser | Grant signed | |
| FUREC: Fuse, Reuse, Recycle | Large-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Hydrogen | Netherlands | Waste to hydrogen | Grant signed | |
| ReLieVe: Recycling Li-ion Batteries for electric vehicles | Large-scale | Energy storage | Manufacturing of components for energy storage | France | Li-ion Battery recycling for production and refining of black mass | Grant signed | |
| C2B: Carbon2Business | Large-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Cement and lime | Germany | Oxy-fuel + carbon capture; carbon use for methanol production | Grant signed | |
| BIOZIN: Conversion of waste and residue BIOmass from Norwegian forestry and sawmills to advanced low carbon fuels for Zero emission transportation INdustry | Large-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Refineries | Norway | Second-generation biofuels (drop-in) & biochar from forestry waste | Grant signed | |
| RISE: Rec Innovation at Sarreguemines Enterprise | Large-scale | Renewable energy | Manufacturing for components for solar energy | France | Solar PV HJT cells manufacturing 2 GW | Withdrawn | |
| ANRAV: ANRAV-CCUS, an innovative stakeholder supported CCUS value-chain to realize the first CCUS-cluster in Eastern Europe, supporting the Balkan region to reach it’s climate goals by 2030 | Large-scale | Carbon capture and storage | Cement and lime | Bulgaria | Oxy-fuel + CCS | Grant signed | |
| Coda Terminal: Coda by Carbfix - a highly scalable, cost effective CO2 mineral storage hub | Large-scale | Carbon capture and storage | CO2 transport and storage | Iceland | Carbon storage: carbon mineralization in onshore basalt formation | Grant signed | |
| AIR: Production of sustainable methanol as raw material for chemical products by first-of-a-kind Carbon Capture and Utilization process integrated with world scale electrolysis unit | Large-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Chemicals | Sweden | Methanol production from renewable hydrogen and carbon capture | Grant signed | |
| HySkies: A partnership to develop Sustainable Aviation Fuel | Large-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Refineries | Sweden | Synthetic aviation fuels from RES H2 and CC | Grant signed | |
| ELYgator: Kick-starting a renewable hydrogen value chain for industry and mobility: highly integrated, flexible large-scale 200MW water electrolyser producing renewable hydrogen and oxygen. | Large-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Hydrogen | Netherlands | Hydrogen production through 200MW electrolyser | Grant signed | |
| NorthSTOR PLUS: Industrialising Green Optimised Li-ion Battery Systems for ESS | Large-scale | Energy storage | Manufacturing of components for energy storage | Poland | GW scale manufacturing of battery energy storage | Grant signed | |
| IONFibre: First-of-its-kind commercial plant producing new sustainable textile fibres applying novel green chemistry | Large-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Chemicals | Finland | Textile fibre from pulp to replace polyester | Grant preparation unsuccessful | |
| GO4ECOPLANET: KUJAWY GO4ECOPLANET | Large-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Cement and lime | Poland | Cryocap carbon capture technology + CCS | Grant signed | |
| CalCC: First industrial-scale carbon capture for lime production integrated with shared pipeline transport of dense phase CO2 to coastal hub for shipping to geological storage in the North Sea | Large-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Cement and lime | France | Cryocap carbon capture technology + CCS | Grant signed | |
| EAVOR LOOP | Large-scale | Renewable energy | Geothermal energy | Germany | Closed loop technology using geothermal energy | Invited for grant preparation from the reserve list | |
| TANGO: ITaliAN PV Giga FactOry | Large-scale | Renewable energy | Solar energy | Italy | Solar PV B-HJT cells and Tandem modules manufacturing 3GW | The TANGO story: Towards the largest solar factory in Europe | Grant signed |
| K6 Program | Large-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Cement and lime | France | Carbon capture and storage and Carbon capture and utilisation (CO2 incorporated in concrete) | Grant signed | |
| Beccs Stockholm: Bio Energy Carbon Capture and Storage by Stockholm Exergy | Large-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Biofuels and biorefineries | Sweden | Bio Energy Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) | Grant signed | |
| ECOPLANTA: Reduction of CO2 Emissions from municipal non-recyclable waste to produce methanol | Large-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Chemicals | Spain | Waste to chemicals and fuels (methanol) | Grant signed | |
| HYBRIT demonstration: Swedish large-scale steel value chain demonstration of Hydrogen Breakthrough Iron-making Technologies | Large-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Iron and steel | Sweden | Hydrogen-based iron and steelmaking, 500 MW eletrolyser, electric arc furnace | Grant signed | |
| SHARC: Sustainable Hydrogen and Recovery of Carbon | Large-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Hydrogen | Finland | Hydrogen with electrolysis and with CCS (green and blue hydrogen) | Grant signed | |
| Kairos@C: Building strong momentum for massive decarbonisation in the EU through a unique end-to-end CCS project | Large-scale | Energy-intensive industries | CO2 capture and storage | Belgium | Carbon capture and storage | Grant signed | |
| AAL SEB: Demonstration of the use of flexible electrical demand to assist Electrical grid facilitate higher levels of renewable power | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Non-ferrous metals | Ireland | Electrification (High- pressure electric boiler) | Grant signed | |
| AGGREGACO2: Fabrication of CO2 negative AGGREGAtes based on disruptive accelerated carbonation processes fuelled by carbon capture in refineries | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Glass, ceramics and construction material | Spain | Carbon negative aggregates; carbon capture | Grant signed | |
| BCP: Batch and Cullet Preheating technology first-of-a-kind, commercial-scale demonstration towards decarbonization of flat glass production | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Glass, ceramics and construction material | France | Waste heat recovery and use | Grant signed | |
| EB UV: EB/UV curing without Gas | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Iron and steel | France | Electron-beam curing of solvent-free pain | Grant signed | |
| FirstBio2Shipping: First Bio-LNG to Marine Shipping | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Biofuels and bio-refineries | Netherlands | Bio-liquefied natural gas for marine shipping | Grant signed | |
| W4W: Waga 4 World | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Biofuels and bio-refineries | Spain | Biomethane from landfill gas | Grant signed | |
| H2 Valcamonica: Green hydrogen for the decarbonisation of Valcamonica | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Hydrogen | Italy | Green hydrogen as a rail fuel | Grant signed | |
| HYVALUE: Novel upcycling production process based on an innovative circular business model for urban waste streams valorisation for the generation of high quality H2 | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Hydrogen | Spain | Waste to hydrogen through pyrolysis | Grant signed | |
| SUN2HY: First small-scale deployment (fsd) of a pre-commercial plant based on photoelectrocatalytic technology for hydrogen production | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Hydrogen | Spain | Photoelectrocatalytic technology for hydrogen production | Grant signed | |
| ZE PAK green H2: Investment in 5 MW green hydrogen production facility located in Konin, Poland | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Hydrogen | Poland | Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) electrolysers | Grant signed | |
| LK2BM: Conversion of a pulp mill fuel source to biomass | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Pulp and paper | Portugal | Biomass as fuel for pulp mill | Grant signed | |
| TFFFTP: Towards a Fossil Fuel Free Tissue Production | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Pulp and paper | Sweden | Bio-syngas production connected to paper machine | Grant signed | |
| SKFOAAS: SKF Recondoil as a Service | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Refineries | Spain | Recycling of industrial oil | The SKFOAAS story: a new circular technology on oil regeneration for European industry and climate | Grant signed |
| TLP: Thermoplastic lignin production - Creating a green industry to replace fossil-based plastics | Small-scale | Energy-intensive industries | Chemicals | Sweden | Biomaterial to replace polyethylen | Grant signed | |
| Aquilon: Airborne wind hybrid renewable microgrid with RedOX Flow battery to provide flat renewable energy to an industrial site | Small-scale | Renewable energy | Wind energy | Germany | Airborne wind energy (AWE) production and redox-flow battery | Grant signed | |
| NAWEP@ Norse Airborne Wind Energy Project | Small-scale | Renewable energy | Wind energy | Norway | Airborne wind energy (AWE) | Grant signed | |
| CCGeo: Closed Carbon Geothermal Energy | Small-scale | Renewable energy | Renewable heating/ cooling | Croatia | Closed-loop geothermal power plant | Grant signed | |
| WH: Water Horizon Renewable Energy Solution | Small-scale | Renewable energy | Renewable heating/ cooling | France | Waste heat recovery | Grant signed | |
| DMC: Decarbomalt Croatia | Small-scale | Renewable energy | Renewable heating/ cooling | Croatia | Solar heat plant and storage facility for the malt industry | Grant signed | |
| CO2-FrAMed: CO2-Free Agriculture for the Mediterranean region | Small-scale | Renewable energy | Solar energy | Spain | Photovoltaic irrigation systems (PVI) | Grant signed | |
| HELEXIO line: Demonstrating manufacturing for innovative BIPV roof components | Small-scale | Renewable energy | Solar energy | France | Building Integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) technology | Grant signed | |
| CarBatteryReFactory: Assembly plant for serial production of industrial energy storage systems based on second-life car batteries and disruptive full-pack technology. | Small-scale | Energy storage | Other energy storage | Germany | Battery reuse | Grant signed | |
| Green Foil project: Low CO2 footprint battery foil for Li-ion battery | Small-scale | Energy storage | Other energy storage | Sweden | Manufacturing of aluminium foil for Li-ion batteries | Grant signed | |
| GREENMOTRIL: Development and operation of a GREEN energy community in the port of MOTRIL | Small-scale | Energy storage | Other energy storage | Spain | Fully renewable and self- Managed Motril seaport | Grant signed | |
| DrossOne V2G Parking: Large-scale vehicle-to-grid system with integrated stationary storage: harnessing EV batteries and their fast response to deliver grid services, currently provided by highly polluting gas plants | Small-scale | Energy storage | Intra-day electricity storage | Italy | Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) system | Grant signed | |
| EVVE: First European Large-Scale Vehicle-To-Grid Demonstrator for an efficient decarbonisation of the energy sector | Small-scale | Energy storage | Intra-day electricity storage | France | Vehicle-to-Grid; Virtual Power Plant (VPP) | Grant signed | |
| GtF: Green the Flex: Achieving significant greenhouse gas emission reductions by intelligent electricity load shifting on the customer level | Small-scale | Energy storage | Intra-day electricity storage | Austria | Virtual Power Plant (VPP) | Grant signed | |
| NorthFlex: Decarbonising temporary power & flexible storage | Small-scale | Energy storage | Intra-day electricity storage | Poland, Sweden | Scale-up a lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) | Grant signed | |
| PIONEER: airPort sustaInability secONd lifE battEry stoRage | Small-scale | Energy storage | Intra-day electricity storage | Italy | Battery reuse for energy storage | Grant signed | |
| Silverstone: Full-scale CO2 capture and mineral storage | Small-scale | Carbon capture and storage | CO2 transport and storage | Iceland | Mineral storage of CO2 | Grant signed |