Call for proposals under the annual work programme for grants in the field of the Trans-European Energy Network (TEN-E)
The European Commission has published a call for proposals under the annual work programme for grants in the field of the Trans-European Energy Network (TEN-E). The call is intended to encourage the effective operation and development of the internal market, reinforce the security of supplies and the diversification of energy suppliers and routes, facilitate the development and reducing the isolation of less-favoured regions, contribute to sustainable development and protection of the environment, inter-alia by involving renewable energies. Priorities under this call concern a variety of topics for both electricity and gas networks, including: - adapting and developing the energy networks in support of the operation of the internal energy market and, in particular, solving the problems of bottlenecks; - establishing energy networks in island, isolated, peripheral and ultra-peripheral regions; - adapting and developing electricity networks to facilitate the integration and connection of renewable energy production; - ensuring interoperability of electricity networks within the European Union with those in the accession and candidate countries and other countries in Europe and in the Mediterranean and Black Sea basins. - developing natural gas networks in order to meet the EU's natural gas consumption needs and to control its natural gas supply systems; - ensuring interoperability of natural gas networks within the EU and with those in accession and candidate countries and other countries in Europe, in the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and Caspian Sea basins, as well as in the Middle East and the Gulf regions, and diversification of natural gas sources and supply routes.To see the official call announcement, please consult: OJ No C 371 of 20 December 2011(opens in new window)