November 2018: EUR 6 Billion for Energy Innovation

November 2018

Germany’s Federal Government recently adopted its seventh energy research program, which defines energy research policy for the coming years. The budget for the period to 2022 totals a hefty EUR 6 billion. The funding announcement defines four focus areas for energy research:

• Energy use: buildings and neighborhoods, industry and commerce, energy transition in the transport sector and fuel cells
• Energy supply: wind, solar, bioenergy, geothermal, hydro- and marine energy as well as solar and conventional thermal plants
• System integration: power grids, power storage, sector coupling, hydrogen technologies
• System-wide energy transition research: e.g. CO2 circular economy, digitization, resource efficiency

If your business is interested in researching and developing the clean energy solutions of tomorrow here in Germany, don’t hesitate to contact our team.

Read more:

• Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy – Funding Announcement (in German)
• Energy research funding (in German)