European Investment Bank Vice President Simon Brooks responded on Nov. 17 to a letter from the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) requesting more information about the NER300 monetisation process. In the interest of transparency for all market operators, the text of his response has been published on the EIB's NER300 monetisation website.
Low carbon energy projects to benefit from EUR 2 billion funding
Innovative renewable energy demonstration projects and carbon capture schemes across Europe will benefit from more than EUR 2 billion raised by sales of 300 million emission allowances. The European Investment Bank has successfully completed sales under the NER 300 programme, one of the largest funding programmes for carbon capture and storage demonstration projects and innovative renewable energy technologies and a total of EUR 548 million has been raised during the second phase of sales.