Crowding in private finance
LIFE Clean Energy Transition · LIFE-PJG · Can apply alone
What this call funds
This call funds projects that set up practical financing schemes to attract private money into energy efficiency projects, potentially combined with renewable energy and storage. The goal is to make energy efficiency investments more attractive to banks and investors by piloting new financing mechanisms like blended finance, guarantees, on-bill financing, or green bonds, and to have them operational and ready to scale by the end of the project.
renewable energy · energy efficiency · energy storage · fintech finance · climate adaptation · regional development
Who wins this
A financial institution, energy services company, or public/private consortium (single applicant or from one eligible country) that wants to design and pilot-test an innovative financing mechanism to unlock private capital for energy efficiency investments.
Could you win this call?
We read your site to see what you build.
The call in detail
- Funding model
- LIFE-AG
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- LIFE Project Grants
- Partners
- Not required. You can apply on your own.
- Funding rate
- 95% (Other Action Grants)
- Also required
- Proposals may be submitted by a single applicant or by applicants from a single eligible country, and must establish the financing scheme in at least 1 eligible country under the LIFE programme; indicative EU contribution up to EUR 1.5 million per proposal, though other amounts are not precluded.
- Sectors
- CleanTech · Energy · Circular Economy
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
Conditions 1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout 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 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. 5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual. 5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds described in section 9 of the call document. 5c. Evaluation and award: 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. Call document and annexes: Call document
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