8. Financing sustainable energy projects through other financial sources
The Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund are one of the major financial sources in the European Union but they are not the only ones.
Sustainable energy projects are often financed also through national and other grants, typical forms of financing such as bank loans credits and guarantees, innovative forms such as public-private partnership investments etc.
We recommend you to read the following documents summarising the financing opportunities for municipalities:
 New Forms of Financing Municipal Sustainable Energy Projects
The collection of 10 case studies from the ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Member States provides the overview of 10 different forms of financing that can be used in municipalities to finance sustainable energy projects.
Financing Intelligent Energy Project in Municipalities
The outcomes of the 3rd BISE Forum focused on financing. The presentations and proceedings are a valuable source of information and experiences coming directly from European municipalities, institutions and private companies. The BISE Forum is the annual event organised
by Energie-Cités and partners from the New Member States, Candidate Countries, Western Balkan and Ukraine within the European BISE Initiative.
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Among the European programmes financing sustainable energy projects are:
European programme for research, technological development and demonstration activities.
The sub-programme called The Intelligent Energy Europe supports the investment in new and best performing technologies as well as to increase the uptake and demand for energy efficiency, renewable energy sources and energy diversification.
The objective of the programme is to contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the Community environment policy and legislation. |
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