Energy technology development and demonstration
Grants for companies and knowledge institutions developing and demonstrating new green energy technologies with growth, jobs and knowledge building in Denmark.
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EUDP helps bring new energy technologies closer to market through prototypes, pilot plants and demonstration. A small industrial-research component can be included when it directly prepares or supports development and demonstration in the same project. Companies expected to commercialise the technology should drive the project.
Feasibility studies can examine the technology, market, organisation and financing of a later ambitious demonstration project. They contain no actual technology development or related research and typically run for about a year, with maximum funding of about DKK 1 million.
The board sets a grant percentage for each participant. For experimental development — for example, producing and validating prototypes, pilot plants or demonstration plants — the company ceilings are 45% of eligible costs for small companies, 35% for medium-sized companies and 25% for large companies. Industrial research — generating new scientific or technological knowledge not already available in published literature, known methods or commercial solutions, to develop or significantly improve energy technologies — has ceilings of 70%, 60% and 50% respectively. Qualifying cooperation increases these to 60%, 50% and 40% for development, or 80%, 75% and 65% for research. Cooperation must either be between companies with at least one small or medium-sized company (SME), or span at least two EU/EEA countries, with no company bearing more than 70% of eligible costs; alternatively, a research institution must bear at least 10% of costs and have the right to publish its own results. Broad dissemination can also justify the higher ceilings, but only exceptionally with EUDP's written approval.
Public research institutions undertaking non-economic work, such as independent research and sharing results, can receive up to 90% in practice. When they provide economic services or advice, the large-company ceilings apply. GTS institutes, municipalities and regions are treated as companies for rate-setting. For feasibility studies and dissemination projects, public research institutions can receive up to 60% of eligible costs; company aid follows the experimental-development ceilings. There is no general award minimum or maximum, but the call limits aid for projects covered by Article 25 to EUR 25 million per company per project.
Budget only costs necessary for the project. Personnel costs must reflect actual pay and separately recorded project hours. Equipment is eligible only for its project use and duration; if its useful life extends beyond the project, only the project's depreciation is eligible. VAT is excluded. Include revenue earned from supported project activities in the budget. Other public or EU grants may be combined only within the applicable aid ceilings and must be declared and shown in the final accounts.
The 2026-II call also included a pyrolysis pool for developing, testing and demonstrating technologies throughout the biochar production and agricultural-use chain, prioritising near-market, scalable projects. It did not fund establishing or operating commercial facilities.
Company size is assessed using staff numbers and annual turnover or balance sheet, including relevant partner and linked companies. Ownership of 25% or more can require adding some or all of the other company’s figures. Sole proprietors unable to document salary payments can instead use the call’s DKK 350 hourly cost basis, with the applicable grant percentage calculated on that amount and project time recorded.
Eligibility
The following conditions describe the documented 2026-II call and the programme's grant rules.
- The main applicant must be based in Denmark and have a Danish CVR business-registration number. Eligible applicants include companies, GTS technology-service institutes, municipalities, regions and public knowledge institutions. Foreign consortium partners can receive funding when the project promotes technology development in Denmark; the Danish lead remains responsible for their compliance and any recovery of funding.
- Development and demonstration must produce a clear increase in Technology Readiness Level (TRL) within levels 4–8: from technology validated in a laboratory to a complete system qualified for commercial use. Show the starting and intended final level.
- Explain how the project advances technology maturity, climate/environmental benefits and Danish growth, jobs and competence or knowledge building. It must also contribute to at least one of energy-supply security, reduced fossil-fuel dependence or cost-effectiveness and competitiveness. Describe the market, scaling potential, team, milestones and how partners will finance their share.
- Where the main green effects occur outside Denmark, all additional tests apply: a realistic short time to market; high technical and commercial maturity (readiness for actual market introduction); demonstrable CO₂ effects likely to occur; Danish growth, jobs and competence or knowledge building; and international comparison of competing technology, including regulatory and policy risks.
- Research must directly support the development/demonstration. Submit the standalone English research annex and required CVs for Innovation Fund Denmark's assessment. Research institutions doing experimental development without industrial research must explain their activities for assessment; simply saying the project starts above TRL 3 is insufficient.
- You must complete the required declarations, including that the company is not an “undertaking in difficulty” under Article 2(18) of the EU General Block Exemption Regulation. Check the company's financial condition against that declaration. Companies with an outstanding recovery order for illegal state aid cannot receive funding. Certify that payment does not breach EU or UN sanctions.
- Excluded activities include business-model development, market analyses, sales promotion, deploying existing technology and commercial plant operation; infrastructure expansion; preproduction planning and production/control-process streamlining; institutional or partnership operating grants; land purchase; authority case-processing; and patents or similar rights.
- Do not start before both the agreed start date and the signed EUDP project agreement. Starting includes the first binding equipment purchase or another irreversible project commitment. Obtaining permits and feasibility studies do not count as starting for this rule.
Companies collaborating with public research institutions must avoid receiving an extra subsidy through favourable rights arrangements. Intellectual property (IP) means rights to inventions or other research results. The collaboration must meet one of these alternatives: either companies bear all project costs; or non-IP results are widely available and IP belongs fully to the research institution, with results available non-discriminatorily to EU businesses; or IP is allocated in proportion to interests, work and contributions, public bodies receive market-price compensation for resulting IP, and non-IP results are widely available.
How to apply
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- Ordinary 2026-II round. This deadline has passed.[^c20]
The ordinary 2026-II deadline has passed. Use EUDP's call page to find the next published ordinary round and its current application materials. Submit through the Danish Energy Agency's grant portal with MitID Erhverv; a private MitID cannot be used.
Complete the application form, budget, Gantt timetable, Business Model Canvas, project-manager CV and declarations. A research annex and all participants' English CVs are required where research is included. Answer every form section directly; annexes do not replace those answers. Feasibility studies use their separate application form and do not require the Business Model Canvas or research annex.
Applications seeking more than DKK 3 million, or including research/researcher training, must be in English. Below DKK 3 million, Danish or English may be used. An exemption from English can be requested below DKK 15 million. Always use the Danish declarations.
Return the project agreement signed by all participants within one month of EUDP’s date on the agreement; later submission requires EUDP approval. A collaboration agreement on financing and rights must be signed by all partners within six months of the commitment letter unless the secretariat agrees otherwise; payment waits until it is in place. Payment reimburses actual eligible expenditure incurred and paid, rather than budget estimates, normally up to twice yearly, with technical progress reporting. The final 10% is withheld until final reporting is approved.
Keep separate accounts and supporting records for at least five years from the end of the calendar year in which the final accounts or technical final report are submitted. Obtain EUDP's written approval before changing the budget, financing, partners, timetable, description or key staff; report substantial delays immediately with a completion plan. Budget changes must add value and cannot be approved with less than three months remaining.
Submit the completion form and technical report by the project end date, and final accounts within two months afterwards. The technical final report must be in English unless otherwise agreed. Audit requirements depend on each participant's grant amount and institution type; institutions under the Danish national audit authority follow the specific exemption. Results generally must be published, with exceptional confidentiality arrangements agreed with EUDP. Report impact indicators on completion and again about four years later. False or withheld material information, unmet funding terms or missing the agreed completion deadline can cause grant cancellation and repayment.
Submit an annual project report by the deadline in the agreement. Unless otherwise agreed, projects started within the three months before that reporting date in the current year are exempt. Paying each partner its own agreed share is the lead’s responsibility; reallocating an awarded grant between participants is prohibited and can trigger recovery.