Re4industry Eu Project

The EU has started a progressive decarbonisation with the aim to become carbon neutral by 2050. Energy Intensive Industries are expected to play an important role in this transition as they represent 24% of the final energy consumption, but a clear long-term vision and strategy is required in order to remain competitive while contributing to the decarbonization targets of the EU. RE4Industry will thus aim at supporting EII in the identification and integration of renewable energy (RE) solutions while defining Action Plans for decarbonisation, at transforming the EU industrial landscape into a large market niche for the uptake of RE defining the appropriate framework conditions. To this end, RE4Industry will set up and empower a comprehensive network of stakeholders and market actors who will identify feasible RE technologies and their market barriers and will interact with industry representatives to gather their needs, expectations, drivers and barriers towards the implementation of these technologies. Such an approach will be accomplished through a strong engagement strategy and the creation of RE4Industry Collaborative Network, who will receive from the project partners knowledge transfer material such as success cases, best practices, policy recommendations and technological roadmaps for promoting RE adoption. In parallel to the networking activities, RE4Industry will develop a baseline methodology for the design of Action Plans for decarbonisation in EIIs that will be developed and validated together with 3 industrial use cases (steel, aluminium and chemical). A solid replication strategy will enable the roll out of this methodology in at least 8 additional use cases of different sectors within the project lifespan and the initiation of cross-border knowledge transfer activities to a total of 12 EU countries. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 952936.