Energy Transition, Environmental legislation, EU Climate and energy framework
European Green Deal
EGEC views on the EU Critical Raw Materials Act EGEC, the voice of the European geothermal industry, is a not-for-profit association representing the entire value-chain of the industry across 28 countries. It is included on the European Transparency Register number: 11458103335-07. Further information can be found at www.egec.org.
The Clean Energy Transition Partnership (CETPartnership) Joint Call 2022 was launched on the 14th September and will remain open to pre-proposals submissions until 23 November 2022, 14:00 CET.
The European Parliament has voted on 5 July 2022 to consider gas and nuclear energy to be sustainable investments in the Sustainable Finance Taxonomy, provide they comply with a set of criteria.
EU Climate and energy framework, Financing
Sustainable finance
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Environmental legislation, EU Climate and energy framework
Energy price crisis, Licensing and EIA, Renewable Energy Directive
In a bid to accelerate renewable energy deployment, the European Commission is looking at means to accelerate permitting processes.
On 11 April 2022, 151 business and industries called on the European Commission to prepare a European strategy to unlock the potential of geothermal energy as well as associated sustainable mineral extraction. Download the full version of the letter
EU Climate and energy framework
Energy price crisis, Geothermal electricity, Internal market for heat
At the beginning of summer 2021, gas prices started increasing tremendously globally due to a wide array of factors, from an exceptionally cold winter in Europe in 2020, to macroeconomic fallouts of the COVID 19 pandemic, without mentioning geopolitics, to technical issues in infrastructure bottlenecks of the fossil fuel production infrastructure.
Energy Transition, Financing, Research, Innovation & Development
2030 targets, Energy infrastructures, Lithium
The Batteries Strategy cannot be implemented without a sustainable supply of Lithium, with security of supply ‘Made in Europe’.
EU Climate and energy framework
Energy price crisis, Recovery Plans
The geothermal sector needs you. It is vital to get the European Commission's regulatory, financial and political support behind the geothermal sector. This will allow it to identify and rectify regulatory and fiscal roadblocks to mass deployment of geothermal energy including sustainable mineral extraction.
