CELEX: 31977D0054
Language: en
Date: 1976-12-21 00:00:00
Title: 77/54/EEC: Council Decision of 21 December 1976 reviewing the energy research and development programme adopted by Decision 75/510/EEC

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                                                       COUNCIL
                                                    COUNCIL DECISION
                                                     of 21 December 1976
               reviewing the energy research and development programme adopted by Deci­
                                                        sion 75/510/EEC
                                                           (77/54/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                              In implementing the programme, the Commis­
COMMUNITIES,                                                            sion may, after consulting the competent ACPMS
                                                                        and the CREST subcommittee on Energy R&D,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
                                                                        and within the limits of 5 to 10 % of the original
Economic Community, and in particular Article 235                       appropriations as shown in the Annex, carry out
thereof,                                                                transfers  between    the   funds  allocated   to    the
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                      various objectives, in the event that, at the begin­
                                                                        ning of the last year of implementation of the
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia­                    programme, the appropriations available for
ment ( !),                                                              certain of the objectives cannot be used to advan­
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and                        tage, while for other objectives the funds are
Social Committee (2),                                                   clearly inadequate in regard to possible develop­
                                                                        ments.'
Whereas Article 4 of Council Decision 75/ 510/ EEC
of 22 August 1975 adopting an energy research and
development programme (3), lays down that the                                               Article 2
programme shall be reviewed at the end of the first
year ;
                                                                    As from 1 January 1977 the Annex to Decision
Whereas it is also desirable, in order to ensure                    75/510/EEC shall be replaced by the Annex to the
optimum implementation of the programme, to                         present Decision .
provide for the possibility of modifying the distribu­
tion of the funds allocated to the various objectives ;
Having regard to the opinion delivered by the Scien­
tific and Technical Research Committee (CREST),                     Done at Brussels, 21 December 1976.
HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS :
                                                                                                  For the Council
                            Article 1
                                                                                                   The President
The following paragraph shall be added to Article 3 of
Decision 75/ 510/ EEC :                                                                            R. LUBBERS
(!) OJ No C    293, 13 . 12. 1976, p. 17.
(2) Opinion    delivered on 24 November 1976 (not yet
    published in the Official Journal).
(3) OJ No L   231 , 2. 9 . 1975, p. 1 .
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                                                            ANNEX
                                                      INDIRECT ACTION
                            ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
           The aims of the programme are as follows :
           I. ENERGY CONSERVATION
              A maximum of 1 1 -380 million units of account and a staff of six shall be assigned to this objec­
              tive .
              This programme covers the following sectors :
              —    improved insulation of buildings,
              —    use of heat pumps,
              —    urban transport,
              —    residual heat recovery,
              —    materials recycling,
              —    production of energy from waste,
              —    evaluation of the specific energy consumption of equipment, processes and techniques,
              —    development of methods for storage of secondary energy.
              This work shall be carried out under contract .
           2. PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION OF HYDROGEN
              A maximum of 1 3-240 million units of account and a staff of four shall be assigned to this objec­
              tive .
              This programme comprises the following projects :
              Project A : Thermochemical production of hydrogen
              Action : 1 . Research into chemical and electrochemical reaction cycles of high potential effi­
                            ciency in the conversion of heat energy into hydrogen energy.
                         2. Practical experiments on promising cycles.
              Project B : Electrolytic production of hydrogen
              Action : 1 . Improvement of existing electrolytic hydrogen production technology.
                         2. Study of the viability and economics of high-temperature and high-pressure electro­
                            lysis.
              Project C : Utilization of hydrogen
              Action : 1 . Analysis of the potential applicability of hydrogen and of synthetic hydrogen-based
                            fuels .
                         2. Development of safety specifications for the handling of hydrogen.
                         3. Improvement of the small-scale storage of hydrogen.
                         4. Studies related to the problems of industrial-scale (medium-sized) storage of hydrogen.
                         5. Studies of the possibility of using existing pipelines for the distribution of hydrogen .
              This work shall be carried out under contract.                        ,
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            3 . SOLAR ENERGY
                A maximum of 17-500 million units of account and a staff of six shall be assigned to this objec­
                tive .
                This programme comprises the following projects :
                Project A : Solar heat collectors and their application to dwellings
                Action : 1 . Low-temperature use of solar energy for heating and cooling buildings.
                          2. Study of plane surface collectors.
                          3. Pilot applications to dwellings for domestic use.
                Project B : Self-contained generating sets for the production of mechanical and/or elec­
                               trical power
                Action : 1 . The use in medium and high temperature areas of solar heat to produce mechanical
                              and/or electrical power.
                          2. Improvement of low-power groups (1 + 10 kw).
                          3 . Pilot installation of 1 MWe .
                Project C : Photovoltaic conversion
                Action : 1 . Development of alternative cells and improvement of existing cells.
                          2. Feasibility study on new concepts.
                         3. New methods of preparing semiconductor materials.
                         4 . Silicon thin film .
                          5. Automation of panel production .
                         6. New or improved encapsulating materials.
                         7. Data collation .
                Project D : Photochemical, photoelectrochemical and photobiological processes
                Action : 1 . Basic studies on photochemical, photoelectro-chemical and photobiological systems.
                Project E : Photosynthetic production of organic matter
                Action : 1 . Choice and development of the most suitable energy crops for the different regions of
                              Europe.
                Project F : Data network relating to solar radiation
                Action : 1 . Collection, standardization and distribution of comprehensive data on number of
                              hours of sunshine throughout the Community.
                         2. Definition of the implications of the large-scale use of solar energy.
                This work shall be carried out under contract.
           4 . GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
                A maximum of 13 million units of account and staff of four shall be assigned to this objective.
                This programme comprises the following projects :
                Project A : Acquisition and collation of existing and new geothermal data
                Action : 1 . Collation of existing geothermal data.
                         2. Acquisition and collation of new additional geothermal data.
                Project B : Improvement of methods of exploration
                Action : 1 . Improvement and/or adaptation of existing prospecting methods to specific
                              geothermal requirements and development of new methods of prospecting and
                              exploration .
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                Project C : Sources of hot water (low enthalpy)
                Action : 1 . Compilation of geothermal models in the regions concerned.
                         2. Full-scale experimental verification of theoretical models (operation).
                         3. Utilization tests on sources of hot water for district and agricultural heating.
                Project D : Steam sources (high enthalpy)
                Action : 1 . Construction of geothermal models in the areas concerned.
                         2. Improvement of measuring and drilling techniques for experimental work at high
                             temperatures.
                         3. Study of new stimulation methods.
                Project E : Hot dry rocks
                Action : 1 . Studies and experiments on fracturation .
                         2. Studies and experiments on heat extraction.
                Project F : Training of specialists
                Action : 1 . Training courses and detachments.
                This work shall be carried out under contract.
            5 . SYSTEMS ANALYSIS : DEVELOPMENT OF MODELS
                A maximum of 3-880 million units of account and a staff of seven shall be assigned to this objec­
                tive .
                This programme comprises the following action :
                Action : 1 . Static models (short term).
                         2. Dynamic sector models (medium/long term).
                This work shall be carried out under contract.