Strategic Energy Technology Plan

The European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) aims to accelerate the development and deployment of low-carbon technologies. It seeks to improve new technologies and bring down costs by coordinating national research efforts and helping to finance projects.

The SET-Plan promotes research and innovation efforts across Europe by supporting the most impactful technologies in the EU‘s transformation to a low-carbon energy system. It promotes cooperation amongst EU countries, companies, research institutions, and the EU itself.

The SET-Plan comprises the SET-Plan Steering Group, the European Technology and Innovation Platforms, the European Energy Research Alliance, and the SET-Plan Information System (SETIS).

Accelerating the transformation of Europe’s energy system

Research, innovation and competitiveness are one of the five dimensions of the Commission‘s energy union strategy. The integrated SET-Plan is part of a new European energy Research & Innovation (R&I) approach designed to accelerate the transformation of the EU‘s energy system and to bring promising new zero-emissions energy technologies to market.

In September 2015, the Commission published a Communication  defining the new European research and innovation strategy for the coming years. The Integrated SET Plan builds on the Energy Union strategy and highlights the areas where the EU needs to strengthen cooperation with SET Plan countries and stakeholders to bring new, efficient and cost-competitive low-carbon technologies to the market faster and in a cost-competitive way.