Brussels, 25/01/2011 (Agence Europe) - Negotiations have begun for allocating the promised €58 million in the call for tenders for Community Smart Energy Programmes. Forty-four projects were selected out of the 349 proposals put on the table by almost 3,000 organisations in the 27 member states of the EU, Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway and Croatia. Almost half of the candidates were SMEs, followed by a substantial number of public authorities and NGOs. For the second consecutive year, the...