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LIFE-Environment 2006 Commission funds
Superconducting Fault Current Limiter Project
Brussels, Belgium, October 19: The European
Commission has approved funding for 50 new environmental innovation projects
in 14 countries under the LIFE-Environment programme 2006. These projects
will demonstrate new methods and techniques for dealing with a wide
diversity of Europe’s environmental problems. The projects are based in
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy,
Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. They
represent a total investment of €214 million, of which the EU will provide
just under €66 million. d private sector organisations. The projects
selected by the Commission will apply ground-breaking technology to solve
environmental problems.
Projects aimed at reducing the environmental
impact of economic activities (15) take the largest share of EU
funding (approximately €24 million). Water management is the second most
popular theme with 15 projects (€18.5 million). A further 14 projects deal
with waste management, sharing around €15 million. Three projects address
the reduction of the environmental impact of products and services (€5
million). Finally, three projects cover land-use development and planning
(€3 million)
In Germany, the project “INES-110” conducted
by Nexans will develop and
demonstrate a superconducting fault current limiter prototype for the
European high-voltage grids (90-123 kV), and as an intermediate step, for
the medium voltage grids (10-30 kV).
The LIFE programme
LIFE is the EU’s financial instrument
supporting environmental and nature conservation projects throughout the EU,
as well as in some candidate, acceding and neighbouring countries. Since
1992, LIFE has co-financed some 2,750 projects, contributing approximately
€1.35 billion euros to the protection of the environment.
LIFE-Environment, which co-finances
innovative pilot and demonstration projects, is one of three thematic
components under the LIFE programme. The other two components, LIFE-Nature
and LIFE-Third Countries, focus respectively on nature conservation and on
environmental capacity building in countries bordering the Mediterranean and
the Baltic Sea. For new projects approved under LIFE-Nature and LIFE-Third
Countries, see press releases
IP/06/1428 and
IP/06/1429.
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