ARAGÓN Call: Grants for investment in electricity and thermal energy generation facilities using renewable energy sources (IDAE)
Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving – IDAE
IMPULSO is pleased to inform you that the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, through the Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving (IDAE), will allocate 316 million euros to promote renewable energy facilities for both thermal and electrical energy production throughout the national territory.
This grant program is implemented through calls for applications issued by the IDAE in each autonomous community, and is currently open in ARAGÓN. Its purpose is the awarding, on a competitive basis, of grants for investment projects in electricity generation facilities using renewable energy sources (ELECTRICITY) or thermal energy production facilities using renewable energy sources and their management improvement and production optimization equipment (THERMAL ENERGY).
The main characteristics of these grants are summarized below:
BENEFICIARIES
Individuals or legal entities, public or private.
PROJECT TYPES
- ELECTRICAL ENERGY: investment projects in facilities for generating electrical energy from renewable sources, which may include investment actions that improve management and optimize production, allowing for self-consumption and the incorporation of energy into local markets, included in the following types of facilities:
| Energy Source | Type of Action | Installed Power Limit |
| Renewable gases / Biogas | Agro-industrial or industrial biogas (generation and electrical use) | Regardless of capacity |
| Agro-industrial or industrial biogas facilities (electrical utilization only) | ||
| Hydraulic* | Hydroelectric plants without pre-existing infrastructure | 0.3 MW ≤ P ≤ 10 MW |
| Micro-hydraulic facilities with or without grid injection | P < 1 MW | |
| Wind* | Very low-power wind facilities for self-consumption with energy supply for electric vehicle charging | Wind turbines with unit power P ≤ 10 kW (total limit of 100 kW) |
| Onshore wind facility with hydrogen production/storage | Wind turbines with unit power P > 100 kW (no total power limit) | |
| Photovoltaic* | PV self-consumption facilities WITH storage | 100 kW ≤ P ≤ 10 MW |
| PV facilities with H2 (1 MWp PV – 256 kW H2) | 0.4 MW ≤ P ≤ 10 MW | |
| Floating PV facilities for GRID sale WITHOUT storage | 1 MW ≤ P ≤ 10 MW | |
| PV self-consumption facilities WITHOUT storage | 100 kW ≤ P ≤ 10 MW | |
| Seasonal PV self-consumption facilities WITHOUT storage | 100 kW ≤ P ≤ 10 MW |
*modifications to existing facilities are permitted provided they have completed their regulatory useful life
- THERMAL ENERGY: investment projects in thermal energy production facilities using renewable energy sources and in renewable gas production facilities, included in the following types of actions linked to renewable energies:
| Energy source | Type of action | Lower/upper nominal power limit (kW) |
| Aerothermal | Aerothermal with photovoltaic supply for residential application | P ≥ 200 |
| Biomass | Biomass for a single building | P ≥ 400 |
| Biomass heating network (including generation plant, distribution, and connection to consumption centers) | P ≥ 400 | |
| High-power biomass boilers for industrial application | P ≥ 3500 | |
| Renewable gases | Biomethane (including purification only) | Regardless of capacity |
| Biogas + biomethane (including biogas production and its purification) | ||
| Geothermal or hydrothermal | Geothermal or hydrothermal residential application + photovoltaics | P ≥ 70 |
| Solar | Non-concentrating solar thermal | 70 ≤ P < 100 |
| Solar thermal WITHOUT concentration | P ≥ 100 |
ELIGIBLE COSTS
- ELECTRICAL ENERGY: Preparation of the execution project, site supervision, health and safety coordination, main generation equipment, civil works, foundations, discharge and storage systems, electrical and control systems, hydraulic systems, pumping, instrumentation, measurement, auxiliary equipment, monitoring, smart distribution networks, transport and assembly, commissioning, etc.
- THERMAL ENERGY: Preparation of the execution project, thermal response tests, pumping tests, site supervision, health and safety coordination, main generation equipment, storage systems, civil works, foundations, discharge and storage systems, heat/cold distribution systems to points of consumption, grid injection systems for renewable gas facilities, high-pressure compression and storage systems for compressed renewable gases, vehicle adaptation for transporting renewable gases and service stations, electrical and control systems, hydraulic systems, pumping, instrumentation, measurement, auxiliary equipment, monitoring, transport and assembly, commissioning, etc.
PROJECT REQUIREMENTS
- Project duration: facilities must be fully completed before June 30, 2023.
- Incentive effect.
TYPE AND INTENSITY OF AID
Non-repayable grant that IDAE may advance to the beneficiary by means of an upfront payment.
The amount of the grant awarded will be quantified in the resolution of the procedure in terms of unit amount and total amount.
The intensity of the aid will be calculated based on the eligible budget justified by the applicant, the actual nominal installed power, as well as a minimum unit contribution to be established according to the type of action.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
The deadline for submitting applications is until 12:00 PM on December 21, 2020.
BUDGET ALLOCATION:
ELECTRICITY: €4,437,319.
THERMAL ENERGY: €4,200,000.82.
19/10/2020
