Calls for IDAE aid for investment in thermal and electrical energy production facilities from renewable sources, co-financed with FEDER Funds, in the autonomous communities of Andalusia, Aragon, Principality of Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla-La are now open. Mancha, Catalonia, Extremadura, La Rioja, Madrid, Melilla, Region of Murcia and Valencian Community.
Keys
- The deadlines for submitting applications end in November and December 2020.
- The aid is non-refundable on a competitive basis.
- Projects and investment actions in facilities that improve management and optimize thermal production and biogas production facilities may be eligible for aid.
- Apart from biomass boilers and biogas installations, cogeneration installations that use organic rankine cycles (ORC) and new biomass utilization or biogas purification equipment that use existing treatment or digestion equipment are eligible for subsidies.
- In all biomass projects it is mandatory to use 100% renewable biofuel. In non-industrial thermal installations of less than 1 MW, the biomass equipment used must prove that it meets the seasonal energy efficiency and emissions requirements established in the Ecodesign Regulation, and the biofuel must be certified with the highest quality according to one of these standards. : UNE-EN-ISO 17225-2 (class A1); UNE-EN-ISO 17225-4, (class 1); 164003 (class A1); or 164004 (class A1).
- The beneficiaries can be natural or legal persons, public or private that meet the requirements indicated in the regulatory bases, energy service companies and renewable energy communities or energy communities.
- After confirming the status of beneficiary and that the project meets the objectives of the call, the evaluation and selection of the applications is carried out, which will first be based on an economic criterion, with a relative weight between 40% and 80% and then applying criteria based on the Just Transition zone, according to administrative viability or based on positive externalities with a weighting of up to 40%.
More information
https://www.avebiom.org/asociados/ayudas/ayudas-idae-20200929