Agence de l'Energie et de la Maîtrise de l'Energie (ADEME)

Overview:

ADEME's mission includes encouraging, supervising, coordinating, facilitating and undertaking operations with the aim of protecting the environment and managing energy. ADEME offers its expertise to businesses, local governments, public administrations and the general public, and helps them to finance projects in areas such as energy, air, noise, transport, waste, polluted soil and sites, and environmental management.

Website:www.ademe.fr
Country:France
Geographic coverage:European and world levels. Special cooperation with Southern nations, particularly those in French-speaking Africa and Asia.
Mechanism:
Grants
Incubator
Programs:

Orienting, managing and financing research programmes; Advice and Expertise; Developing practical tools and disseminating best practices; Financing decision-support assistance, exemplary operations and projects; Training, information, communications and awareness-raising initiatives. I.E. FIDEME: Investment Fund for Environment and RE. A public-private initiative.

Annual budget:

2007 €343 million (a €260 million action budget and an operating budget of €83 million). For details on how the money has been invested: 

www2.ademe.fr/servlet/KBaseShow

Employees:2008: 820, including 359 engineers
Membership:
EnR