Thermie II: financial support for the promotion of European energy technology 1995-1998

The purpose of the proposal for a Council regulation is to implement the Community THERMIE II programme designed to support demonstration projects to promote European energy technologies in the years 1995-1998. The objective of the programme is to promote technological innovations in the energy sector by providing the potential for industrial demonstration and application with a view to supporting their market penetration in the Community and third countries. The programme covers four areas of action: - rational use of energy (transport, buildings, industry, energy industry); - renewable sources of energy (biomass and waste, solar energy, wind power; hydroelectric power, geothermal energy); - solid fuels; - hydrocarbons. The proposed budgetary appropriations, viz. ECU 30 million, are limited to 1995. The THERMIE II programme and the "energy research" section of the fourth framework programme will operate in tandem.�