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Federal flagship industrial development plan (P+B)
Launched in April 2016, Brazil's federal flagship industrial development Plan (P+B) is led by the Ministry of Development, Industries and Commerce (MDIC), and focuses on enhancing the productiveness of industrial small and medium enterprises (SMEs). By the end of 2017, the…
Experimental Car Sharing
In 1999, Italy launched pilot projects for car sharing in the Italian cities of Palermo and Venice. According to the ENEA, other Italian cities began experimenting with the service in 2000 - including Milan, Rome, Genoa, Bologna, Turin, and Naples. Under this model, cars are…
SmartWay Transport Partnership
The SmartWay Transport Partnership is a collaboration designed to help businesses reduce fuel costs while transporting goods in the cleanest most efficient way possible. SmartWay works with freight carriers and shippers committed to benchmarking their operations, tracking their…
Science and Technology National Policy
The Science and Technology National Policy puts forth an integrated framework intent on making Saudi Arabia one of the world leading energy researchers as well as serving as a reference for future system development and performance enhancements in the long-term.This policy is…
National Energy Policy
Building on the Kiribati Development Plan 2008-2011, the National Energy Policy of Kiribati of 2009 aims at providing "available, accessible, reliable, affordable, clean and sustainable energy options for the enhancement of economic growth and improvement of livelihoods in…
Basic Plan for the Promotion of the Development, Use and Diffusion of New and Renewable Energy
Low-interest loans offered to companies that employ renewable energy technologies, processes and equipment. - A 10% investment tax credit for companies investing in energy RD & D projects. - Priority in receiving tax credits for companies reserving funds to invest in renewable…
Access Energy Found (pilot)
Contribute to energy access and use it, which means better quality of life users (communities, social organizations, etc.) through the systems implemented, expanding the supply of energy that can be used. This pilot program aims to improve access to energy and the development…
Drive Sweden
Drive Sweden is a Strategic Innovation Program launched by the Swedish government. The program is funded by the Swedish Energy Agency, the Swedish Research Council Formas and Sweden’s innovation agency VINNOVA. Lindholmen Science Park is the host for the program. Drive Sweden´s…
Electric Vehicles Programme
On 5 May 2016, the Government announced its Electric Vehicles Programme. This includes measures to increase the number of electric vehicles in New Zealand and has a goal of reaching approximately 64,000 electric vehicles on our roads by the end of
Retrofit Programme of Sustainable Improvement in Existing Housing
In 2016, the Housing National Commission (CONAVI) with the support of the Ministry of Energy (SENER), the Electric Power Savings Trust Fund (FIDE), the Mexican National Development Bank (NAFIN) and the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) implemented a programme to support…
National programme on Energy Efficiency and Technology Up gradation of SMEs
Indian SME sector consumes energy equivalent to about 50 million tons of oil equivalent annually, which is about 20 to 25% of the energy consumption by large industries. SMEs in India are exists in form of clusters which are spread across the length and breadth of the country,…
National Strategy for Research, Development, Demonstration and Commercialisation of New Energy Technology
Energi21, the national strategy for research and development of new energy technology, was adopted in 2008 on the initiative of the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (MPE) as the national RD&D strategy for the Norwegian energy sector. The main purpose is to provide the…
Production of the future
The RTI programme "Production of the Future" by the Federal Ministry of Climate Action has the following goals since the year 2012:Efficient resources and resource management, efficient production technologies - to increase international competitiveness and to strengthen…
Mid- to Long-term Development Plan for the Automotive Industry
The Plan plots a roadmap for the nation to achieve a high efficiency and low carbon vehicle fleet in the next few years. It sets out specific targets of meeting 5 and 4.5 L/100 km fleet-average fuel consumption for all new passenger cars and fuel-efficient passenger vehicles,…
Energy Research Program (Swiss Federal Office of Energy)
In common with other industrialised nations, energy research represents an important pillar of energy policy in Switzerland. The public authorities spend some 200 million Swiss francs a year on energy research. The objectives are to create a secure and sustainable energy supply,…
Better Buildings Accelerators
Better Buildings Accelerators are designed to demonstrate specific innovative policies and approaches, which will accelerate investment in energy efficiency upon successful demonstration. Initiated under President Obama's Climate Action Plan in 2013, each Accelerator is a…
Market Transformation through Introduction of Energy Efficient Electric Vehicles Project (E-Trike Project)
In partnership with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Clean Technology Fund (CTF), the DOE is implementing the Market Transformation through Introduction of Energy Efficient Electric Vehicles Project or the E-Trike Project to promote energy efficiency and clean…
Funding for Tomakomai CCS demonstration
Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) commissioned the Tomakomai CCS Demonstration Project, which came online in 2016 near the site of a coastal oil refinery. The Tomakomai CCS Demonstration Project is led by Japan CCS Co. Ltd (JCCS), established in 2008 by…
Australian National Low Emission Coal Research and Development initiative (ANCLER&D)
Founded in 2010, the Australian National Low Emission Coal Research and Development initiative supports low emission coal technologies (LECT), including carbon capture and storage, with over AUD 100 million invested. The initiatives support R&D projects through calls for…
ICT of the Future
The funding initiative "ICT of the Future" covers the following programmes: The national funding programme "ICT of the Future" aims to give due consideration to the changing demands to be met by ICT research. The EU co-funded programmes "ARTEMIS" and "ENIAC", which were merged…
Development of innovative energy efficiency technologies
This project offers support for the development of innovative energy efficiency technologies, aiming at their commercialization. The applications should be reviewed by New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). Provision of subsidy differs by the…
Solar Decathlon
The US Solar Decathlon is a competition in which teams of college and university students compete to design, build, and operate the most attractive, effective, and energy-efficient solar powered house. Since 2002, the Solar Decathlon has challenged over 25,000 students from more…
Joint Programming Plattform ERA-Net Smart Energy Systems
The Joint Programming Platform Smart Energy Systems is an important instrument to support transnational RD&D funding co-operation in the field of energy systems. The platform contributes substantially to the implementation plan of the SET-Plan working group on energy systems…
Innovative Renewable Energy Research Program
The program aims to enable diversification of energy resources, ensuring a sustainable supply of energy and water in the future by providing innovative renewable energy and/or clean combustion solutions. The program includes studies to identify the optimum RE technologies to be…
Technology Subsidies - Flanders
The Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT-Vlaanderen) has several funding programmes:The Industrial Research and Development programme (O&O-programme) provides R&D support to firms (with (future) activities in the Flemish Region) for innovative projects that…
Renewable Energy Education and RD&D Strategy
The UAE has established two graduate-level research universities dedicated to clean energy in partnership with leading international universities, as well as dedicated, associated commercial product/service RD & D facilities. The projects are designed to create a supply of…
National Programme to Popularise the Jatropha Plant (PVEPP)
The government of Mali outlined a five year plan to promote the use of Jatropha for energy production in 2004. Programme was prolonged for next couple of years and therefore is still in force. The programme has several aims, targeting women and rural communities, and encouraging…
Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency (Law No. 13)
The Temporary Law on Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency 3 (which became a permanent law on April 12th, 2012 under the Law No. 13) aims to provide the government with suitable tools to reach the National Energy Efficiency Strategy targets. Since 2007, the Energy Efficiency…
Green Racing Initiative
The Green Racing Initiative uses motor sport competition to help rapidly develop cleaner, more fuel efficient vehicle propulsion systems that will eventually be used in consumer vehicles. Partners brought together by SAE International to form the Green Racing Working Group.…
Centres for Environmentally-friendly Energy Research (FME)
Established in 2009, the Centres for Environment-friendly Energy Research (FME) are time-limited research centres that are designed to generate solutions to climate- and energy-related challenges, and to promote innovation and industrial development. The FME scheme was…
National Renewable Resource Assessment Mapping
This task aims to provide quality solar and wind resource assessment data. Stat-of-the-art weather stations have been established at five strategically in-land selected sites in Kuwait. The data set covers Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI), Global Horizontal Irradiance (GHI), and…
Energy Storage Technology Advancement Act of 2007
The Act directs DOE to conduct a cost-shared R&D and demonstration programme to support the countrys ability to remain globally competitive in energy storage systems for electric drive vehicles, stationary applications, and electricity transmission and distribution. The Act…
Testing Centre in Renewable Energy Technologies (TCRET)
Testing Centre in Renewable Energy Technologies (TCRET) aims to build local knowledge capacity in renewable energy technologies field through a provision of a short and long term courses. Available courses are provided at bachelor and master levels in renewable energy…
Activities Implemented Jointly (AIJ)
In March 1995, the governments of Hungary and the Netherlands initiated a series of Activities Implemented Jointly (AIJ) projects to promote AIJ as a feasible means of energy conservation and emissions reduction. This pilot AIJ included a demonstration of small-scale energy…
Energy Strategy of Russia to 2030
The objective of the energy strategy of Russia is to maximize the effective use of natural energy resources and the potential of the energy sector in order to sustain economic growth, improve quality of life, and strengthen Russia's foreign economic positions.The Strategy…
Advanced Manufacturing Office: Industrial Distributed Energy
The Industrial Distributed Energy activity of the U.S. Department of Energys Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) provides cost-shared support for collaborative R&D to accelerate the deployment, testing, and validation of novel distributed energy and combined heat and power…
Future Mobility
Future Mobility is a mission-oriented and technology-based thematic research funding programme. It addresses the entire transport system as an interaction between user, infrastructure and vehicle in the ground and air transport sector, in order to initiate and accompany…
Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E)
Based on a 2005 recommendation by the National Academies, Congress in 2007 established the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E), inspired by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). ARPA-E is an agency within the DOE that advances early-stage,…
Cool Earth Energy Innovative Technology Plan
The development of innovative technology is essential in achieving the long-term target of halving global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 from the current levels under Cool Earth 50, proposed in May 2007. Based on awareness of this issue, an investigative commission comprising…
Promote renewable energy technologies (Policy no. 5, Maldives National Energy Policy and Strategy 2010)
Background: In order to minimize the vulnerability of energy supplies to external factors, the use of indigenously available renewable resources for energy generation is necessary. This will in turn reduce the pressure on the country's balance of payments. The Maldives has the…
Energy Development Corporation (EDC) Projects
The Energy Development Corporation (EDC) was established in January 2004 as a division of the Central Energy Fund (CEF). CEF is a private company comprising various divisions, owned by the Government of South Africa and controlled by the Department of Minerals and Energy (DME).…
Better Buildings Initiative
The Better Buildings Initiative was launched in 2011 by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to accelerate investment in the most promising technical solutions for improving buildings efficiency and share successful best practices among leaders in the public and private sectors.…
Energy Conservation Programme (ENCON)
Under the Energy Conservation Programme (ENCON) launched in 1992, the Energy Conservation and Promotion Fund was established to provide financial support to introduce and promote new and renewable energy technologies. The capital for the fund was initially secured through the…
Swedish Energy Agency, Strategic Vehicle Research and Innovation Programme
Partnership between government and automotive industry on climate, environment and
BPI France Innovation for SMEs - support for R&D
Established in 2005, OSEO is a French public organisation that funds and advises small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Part of OSEOs activities involves supporting innovation in SMEs, and since 2008, in larger enterprises meeting similar barriers to innovation as SMEs.…
Strategy Plan 2015-2019
The 2015-2019 Strategic Plan is second step in reaching Turkish national renewable energy target of 30% of the total electricity generated from renewable source by 2030. The 2015-2019 Strategic Plan enhancing aims of 2010-2014 Strategic Plan: increase Turkish energy security by…
Energy Efficiency Program in Public Buildings - PROCEL EPP
This Programme aims at reducing electricity consumption in buildings at the federal, state, and municipal levels. Conservation is promoted by disseminating efficient technologies in areas including lighting and HVAC systems. Initially, various energy analyses are completed to…
Energy Regulatory Commission established
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is established under the Energy Act of 2006. With effect from July 2007, the Electricity Regulatory Board became Energy Regulatory Commission.The Renewable Energy Department of the ERC is responsible for:- Assisting the Ministry of Energy…
Energy Management Offices
By mid-1999, all government and public sector buildings had established Energy Management Offices (EMO) in charge of planning energy saving measures. Provision had been made for a specific timetable of action; procedures and responsibilities were specified and plans of action…
Energy Bank: Fund for Energy Efficiency and CO2 Reduction
The Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), a government-affiliated financial institution, and Japan Smart Energy Co., a Japanese accounting firm specialized in environmental issues, announced on 22 June 2007 that they had jointly established Energy Bank, the first fund of its kind in…