The European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan) promotes research and innovation efforts across Europe by supporting the most impactful technologies in the European Union’s transformation to a low-carbon energy system. It promotes cooperation amongst EU countries, companies, research institutions, and the EU itself.
It has put forward a specific vision for each technology area through setting ambitious targets to be reached in the next decades to place Europe at the forefront of the next generation of low-carbon energy technologies and of energy efficiency.
For each of these technology areas, implementation plans have been developed to reach these targets: