Further Information

Market players see the Directive on the promotion of electricity produced from RES in the internal market as a welcome step and it has provided confidence for future projects. Implementation by the Member States and subsequent monitoring by the Commission are the next important steps. Projects to be supported under this key action should address the objectives and priorities of the Directive, and support its implementation. Furthermore, looking beyond the boundaries of this specific Directive, thorough analyses of other relevant developments and policy related initiatives that may affect the development of the RES electricity market, should be covered by this key action. Examples of such are agriculture, environment and fiscal policies as well as policies which address the problems of remote/outermost regions.

The Key Action €RES electricity€ will support organisations in different Member States and candidate countries to work together and to encourage a considerably greater fraction of electricity consumption produced from RES in order to achieve the EU level targets.

This Key Action objective can only be reached through collaborative efforts mainly between National Governments, the market actors and various associations concerned. This implies that proposals within this Key Action should involve at least two or more of these actors to secure a strong link between theory and practice. The Key Action objective does not target specific RES electricity technologies, but focuses more on some of the most important non-technological issues to be addressed to facilitate the accelerated market introduction of all RES technologies. In the context of this key action, projects involving fuel cells and hydrogen technologies combined with RES technologies and as storage options may be supported.

The Target areas below all have a number of concrete aims to fulfil in order to provide the optimum support for the successful implementation of the RES electricity directive:

• National indicative targets
• Support schemes
• Grid system issues
• Green electricity
• Distributed electricity generation