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Fostering sustainable energy uptake along the whole value chain in industry and services

LIFE Project Grants

Basic Information

Identifier: LIFE-2021-CET-VALUECHAIN
Programme: LIFE Clean Energy Transition
Programme Period: 2021 - 2027
Status: Closed (31094503)
Opening Date: July 13, 2021
Deadline: January 12, 2022
Deadline Model: single-stage
Budget: €4,000,000
Min Grant Amount: –
Max Grant Amount: –
Expected Number of Grants: –
Keywords: LIFE-2021-CET-VALUECHAINLIFE-2021-CET

Description

Expected Impact:

Development and implementation of economically viable business models at value chain level, ready to be rolled out on the market
Number of companies and value chains involved in the implementation of the business models and business cases
Data evidence on value chain energy use made available to relevant market actors
Development of innovative benchmarking and monitoring systems for whole energy use at value chain level
Improvement of standards, governance and regulatory frameworks to support the integration of energy efficiency and renewable energy at value chain level
Replicable use cases demonstrating value chain solutions implementing energy efficiency measures and integrating renewable energy
Primary energy savings/Renewable energy generation triggered by the project (in GWh/year)
Investments in sustainable energy triggered by the project (cumulative, in million Euro)

Objective:

In 2018, the industry and services sectors made up about 40% of the total EU-27 final energy consumption (respectively accounting for 26% and 14%). As highlighted in the European Green Deal, the achievement of climate-neutrality by 2050 will require a full mobilisation and deeper cooperation among all players operating across the different value chains.

Companies tend to focus their efforts on energy consumptions related to their own activities, which excludes those of their value chain (i.e. all delivery technologies, products and services contributing to the final product). The objective of this topic is to engage companies to embrace a more holistic approach in order to better take into account the risks associated to high energy intensity in the supply chain (e.g. exposure to energy prices, image, litigation, etc.), and to make it more sustainable and resilient.

This paradigm shift can further unlock the market potential for sustainable solutions while enabling to benchmark the entire lifecycle impacts (e.g. water consumption, CO2 emissions, soil impacts, etc.) of industrial and service processes.

In this regard, large companies can play a crucial role to support SMEs, which operate in their supply chain, to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions.

Scope:

The scope of this topic is to establish collaborations between SMEs and larger companies, operating in the same value chain, in order to ensure that energy efficiency measures and the use of renewable energy sources are maximised at each step of the process, in line with the EU strategy on energy system integration and more in general with the EU Green Deal and the EU industrial strategy.

Proposals are expected to develop, test and validate innovative business models and approaches fostering collaboration among companies within one or several specific value chains in the industry and service sectors. Proposals should clearly describe these models and approaches, their relevance and added value for the targeted value chains. Business cases should be produced based on the real interaction and experiences gained among the relevant actors during the timeframe of the project. A detailed exploitation strategy should be provided in order to effectively roll out the project results to the relevant value chains across the EU.

Additionally, benchmarking mechanisms and monitoring systems focusing on the energy use at value chain level could be developed, in order to avoid shifting carbon emissions from one level to another of the value chain; such benchmarks should focus specifically on energy and not on a broader GHG approach. In this regard, proposals are expected to provide policy recommendations to further improve the collection, transparency and accessibility of companies’ energy use data in order to support the development of reporting standards to monitor progress towards the EU’s 2030 and 2050 climate and energy objectives.

The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of up to EUR 2 million would allow the specific objectives to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.

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Eligibility & Conditions

Conditions

Conditions

1. Admissibility conditions: described in section 5 of the call document

Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System

2. Eligible countries: described in section 6 of of the call document

3. Other eligibility conditions: described in section 6 of the call document

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in section 7 of the call document

Submission and evaluation processes: described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual

Award criteria, scoring and thresholds: described in section 9 of the call document

Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in section 4 of the call document

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in section 10 of the call document

Documents

Call documents:

Call document

Standard application form — call-specific application form is available in the Submission System

Detailed budget table

Participant information

LIFE General MGA v1.0

LIFE Work Programme 2021-2024

LIFE Regulation 2021/783

EU Financial Regulation 2018/1046

Info session recordings and presentations

Support & Resources

Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – Submission of proposals.

IT Helpdesk – Contact the IT helpdesk for questions such as forgotten passwords, access rights and roles, technical aspects of submission of proposals, etc.

Online Manual – Step-by-step online guide through the Portal processes from proposal preparation and submission to reporting on your on-going project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes.

Latest Updates

Last Changed: May 16, 2022

Topic code	Call Topic	Budget (M EUR)
LIFE-2021-CET-LOCAL	Technical support to clean energy transition plans and strategies in municipalities and regions	7
LIFE-2021-CET-POLICY	Towards an effective implementation of key legislation in the field of sustainable energy	6
LIFE-2021-CET-GOV	Multilevel climate and energy dialogue to deliver the energy Governance	5,5
LIFE-2021-CET-BUILDRENO	Large-scale rollout of industrialised deep renovation solutions	6
LIFE-2021-CET-AUDITS	Uptake of energy audits recommendations for the energy transition of companies	5,5
LIFE-2021-CET-VALUECHAIN	Fostering sustainable energy uptake along the whole value chain in industry and services	4
LIFE-2021-CET-BUILDSKILLS	BUILD UP Skills – rebooting the National Platforms and Roadmaps	6
LIFE-2021-CET-COOLING	Facing the increase in cooling demand of buildings in the coming years	4
LIFE-2021-CET-SMARTSERV	Establish innovative business models and contractual schemes for smart and sector-integrating energy services	4
LIFE-2021-CET-SMARTREADY	Creating the conditions for a global improvement of smart readiness of European buildings	6
LIFE-2021-CET-MAINSTREAM	Mainstreaming sustainable energy finance and integrating energy performance in EU sustainable finance criteria and standards	5,5
LIFE-2021-CET-INNOFIN	Innovative financing schemes for sustainable energy investments	5,5
LIFE-2021-CET-HOMERENO	Integrated Home Renovation Services	6
LIFE-2021-CET-HOMERECOM	EU community of "Integrated Home Renovation Services" practitioners	2
LIFE-2021-CET-COALREGIONS	Community-driven clean energy transition in coal, peat and oil-shale regions	3
LIFE-2021-CET-PDA	Disruptive PDA – Technical Assistance to advance market boundaries for sustainable energy investments	6
LIFE-2021-CET-ENERPOV	Addressing building related interventions for vulnerable districts	5,5
LIFE-2021-CET-ENERCOM	Developing support mechanisms for energy communities and other citizen-led initiatives in the field of sustainable energy	7

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

Call LIFE-2021-CET:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 171