FNEE/Aids to SMEs and large companies in the industrial sector

The purpose of this grant program is to encourage and promote the realization of actions in the industrial sector to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by improving energy efficiency, thus help to achieve the objectives of reducing the consumption of final energy set by Directive 2012/27/EU. To this end has been established a line of support directed to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and large companies in the industrial sector in order to facilitate the implementation of measures to improve energy efficiency and implementation of energy management systems. This line of support was conceived to be further expanded in the following years until 2020. This program will facilitate the implementation of saving measures and energy efficiency as identified by the proposed industrial or energy audits to reduce energy consumption in industrial processes. In this way it reinforces and continues the obligation Article 8 of Directive 2012/27/EU imposes on large companies to perform an energy audit before 5 December 2015, and at least every four years from the date of its execution. This program has been allocated with a maximum budget amounting to of €591,105,577 , coming from the National Energy Efficiency Fund, created by Law 18/2014, of 15 October, approving urgent measures for growth, competitiveness and efficiency. The aids from this programme may be cofinanced by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under the Operational Programme for Sustainable Growth 2014-2020. The aid granted by virtue of the Programme will be implemented in the form of money allowance without compensation, with a maximum amount of 30% of the corresponding eligible investment, and a maximum amount of the eligible investment per application of M€4. Measures and/or actions that may be made eligible for aid must fit into one or more of the following types: Improving technology equipment and industrial processes, for actions with a minimum eligible investment of €75,000; and Implementation of energy management systems for actions with a minimum eligible investment of €30,000.

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