ForskEL - Farmhouse Design

6 - 8.9 mio. DKK.
3 - 5.9 mio. DKK.
PSO Funding
Figure 3 illustrates the number of projects and the size of the
The total amount of financial funding from the different PSO
total budgets divided into four groups. It shows that 63% of the
programmes affiliated with Energinet.dk from 1998-2013 is
projects have received a funding amount smaller than DKK 3
DKK 1,867,425,664. Every year, the programmes have a total
million. A reason for this is that many of the projects are fea-
of approx. DKK 150 million which they can grant qualified pro-
sibility studies where the aim is to investigate, whether there
jects. If the programmes do not utilise the whole budget, it is
is a valid foundation for a bigger project in a given energy area
possible to assign the rest of the funding to the next year. The
and whether the new technological possibility is a realistic op-
figure below shows the total amount of funding from 1998-
portunity.
2013 divided on project size.
Furthermore, the second largest group with 22% is the group
Figure 3
The total amount
of funding divided
on project size
Number of projects
400
352
300
of projects in the budget area of DKK 3-6 million and the third
largest group is projects in the budget area of DKK 6-9 million.
The last group of projects with a budget from DKK 9 million and
above is only 7%, indicating that not many projects receive a
relatively large amount of PSO funding. However, it is observed
that there is an increase in the projects with a budget over
200
DKK 9 million since 2009. A reason for this can be that since
2009, the programmes have increased their focus on bigger
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consortium projects that demands a larger budget. The aim of
100
the consortium projects is to support larger projects that inclu-
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de different partners from all the technological development
phases. This means that the aim is to support projects where
the partners can execute different tasks in the technological
16
9 mio. DKK. and over
Under 3 mio.DKK.
development phases from applied research to demonstration/
commercialisation.