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The EU will finance the Spanish research project on biogas Gerónimo II
19/01/2011
on January 19, 2011
The Spanish research project Gerónimo II will have Community funding once the European Commission has included this Tuesday in a first list of 44 selected projects. The Spanish project aims to promote the potential of biogas in the agricultural sector. The European Commission has confirmed that it will help to fund 44 projects with around 58 million euros from the European funding programme of intelligent energy (IEE for its acronym in English) and has been advanced that it will make available another 67 million euros to finance new projects in 2011.
Brussels hopes to conclude the negotiations in March to determine the funding available for each of the 44 projects and hopes that the first start to put in place the same month, said the EU Executive said in a statement. Brussels has selected these 44 projects of a total of 349 submitted until last June, when the deadline for applications was completed.
The community program was designed to facilitate projects that contribute to the penetration of renewable energy in Europe, as well as the implementation of the triple European objective of improving energy efficiency by 20 percent, reduce by 20% the emissions of CO2 in the States members compared to 1990 levels and increase up the 20% energy consumption from renewables by 2020.
