據能源新聞2020年6月9日布魯塞爾報道，據一位高級官員透露，歐盟委員會將在7月底發起首個年度10億歐元(11億美元)的倡議，為大規模可再生能源、清潔氫、能源存儲和碳捕獲和存儲/使用（CCS）項目提供資金。

歐盟的目標是讓企業現在就投資低碳技術，以實現其2050年前達到氣候中性的目標。

這筆資金將來自歐盟的創新基金，后者將在2030年底前通過出售4.5億歐元的歐盟排放交易系統配額獲得這筆資金。按照歐盟目前的碳價格，該基金在10年內的預算約為100億歐元。

歐盟氣候行動部門創新金融部門負責人Christian Holzleitner在6月5日舉行的在線信息會上表示：“我們希望啟動氫能源經濟。”

他說：“我們想成為世界上第一個建立用于工業，用于難以減少行業的碳捕獲和儲存或使用。”這些難以減少行業包括水泥、鋼鐵和化工。

歐盟還希望支持創新的可再生能源，如海上風能、海洋能源、地熱、生物燃料和綠色氫。

與目前的技術相比，成功的創新項目能夠在長達10年的時間內獲得高達60%的額外資本和運營成本。

Holzleitner稱，考慮到創新項目的碳減排成本約為80-90歐元/噸二氧化碳，而目前歐盟的碳價格約為20-25歐元/噸二氧化碳，歐盟此舉旨在縮小投資差距。

李峻 編譯自 能源新聞

原文如下：

EU plans Eur1 billion call for renewables, hydrogen, CCS projects

The European Commission will open its first annual Eur1 billion ($1.1 billion) call to fund large-scale renewables, clean hydrogen, energy storage, and carbon capture and storage/use projects by the end of July, according to a senior official.

The goal is to get companies to invest now in the low-carbon technologies needed for the EU to achieve its goal of being climate neutral by 2050.

The money comes from the EU's Innovation Fund, which is funded until 2030 by selling 450 million EU Emissions Trading System allowances. It has a budget of around Eur10 billion over 10 years at current EU carbon prices.

"We want to kick-start the hydrogen economy," Christian Holzleitner, head of the EC's innovation finance unit in its climate action department, said in an online information session on June 5.

"We want to be the first in the world to establish carbon capture and storage or use for industry, for hard-to-abate sectors," he said. These include cement, steel and chemicals.

The EC also wants to support innovative renewables, such as offshore wind, ocean energy, geothermal, biofuels and green hydrogen.

Successful innovative projects can receive up to 60% of their additional capital and operating costs compared with current technology for up to 10 years.

This is about closing some of the investment gap given that innovative projects' carbon abatement costs start around Eur80-90/mt CO2 and current EU carbon prices are around Eur20-25/mt CO2, Holzleitner said.