Integrated local energy systems (energy islands)

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Integrated local energy systems (energy islands): international cooperation with India.

Key facts

• Horizon 2020 topic: LC-SC3-ES-13-2020
• Focus area: building a low-carbon, climate-resilient future
• Type of action: innovation action, single-stage
• Opened: 5 May 2020
• Deadline: 1 September 2020 at 17:00 Brussels time
• Indicative EU contribution: €2.5 to 3.5 million per proposal, combined with co-funding from India’s Department of Science and Technology
• Technology readiness: TRL 5 to 8

The challenge

The fast growth of renewable energy offers new opportunities to decarbonise local energy systems, such as isolated villages, small cities, urban districts and rural areas with weak or no grid connection. Proposals were to develop and demonstrate solutions that combine all the energy vectors in a well-defined local system, optimise their joint operation, and show a higher share of renewables and better energy efficiency, with high potential for replication across Europe and India.

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