VALENCIAN COMMUNITY call for applications: Investment aid for electricity and thermal energy generation facilities using renewable energy sources (IDAE)
Institute for the Diversification and Saving of Energy – IDAE
At IMPULSO, we are pleased to inform you that the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, through the Institute for the Diversification and Saving of Energy (IDAE), will allocate €316 million to promote renewable energy installations for energy production—both thermal and electrical—throughout the national territory.
This aid programme is implemented through calls issued by IDAE in each autonomous community. It is already open in the VALENCIAN COMMUNITY, and its purpose is to award, under a competitive selection procedure, 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 optimisation equipment (THERMAL ENERGY).
Below is a summary of the main features of these grants:
BENEFICIARIES
Natural or legal persons, 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 | Biogas agro-industrial or industrial facilities (electricity generation only) | Regardless of capacity |
| Agro-industrial or industrial biogas (electricity generation and use) | ||
| Solar photovoltaic* | PV self-consumption WITH storage | 100 kW ≤ P < 500 kW |
| PV self-consumption WITHOUT storage | 100 kW ≤ P < 500 kW | |
| N/A | Types of actions associated with Renewable Energy Communities or other types of energy communities, including citizen energy communities | According to values defined in the call |
*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 Nominal Power Limit (kW) |
| Biomass | Biomass boilers for high-capacity industrial applications | P ≥ 5000 |
| Geothermal or hydrothermal | Geothermal or hydrothermal for services or industry applications | 50 ≤ P |
| Solar thermal | Solar thermal WITH concentration for services or industry | P > 1000 |
| Renewable gases | Biomethane (including purification only) | Regardless of capacity |
| Biogas + biomethane (including biogas production and its purification) | ||
| Biomass, geothermal and hydrothermal, solar thermal and renewable gases | Heat and/or cooling networks | N/A |
Types of actions that may be carried out exclusively in heat or cooling networks:
| Energy Source | Type of Action | Lower Nominal Power Limit (kW) |
| Biomass | BM heat network (including generation plant, distribution and connection to consumption centres) | 400 ≤ P |
| Geothermal or hydrothermal | GT or HT with heat network (including generation, distribution and connection to consumption centres) | 50 ≤ P |
| Solar thermal | WITHOUT concentration | 50 ≤ P < 100 |
| WITHOUT concentration | P ≥ 100 | |
| WITH concentration | 25 ≤ P < 5000 | |
| WITH concentration | P ≥ 5000 | |
| Renewable gases | Biomethane (including purification only) | Regardless of capacity |
| Biogas + biomethane (including biogas production and its purification) |
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 aid granted will be specified in the decision of the procedure in terms of unit amount and total amount.
The aid intensity will be calculated based on the eligible budget substantiated by the applicant, the actual installed capacity, as well as a minimum unit contribution to be established depending on the type of action.
APPLICATION DEADLINE
The deadline for submitting applications is until 12:00 on 21 December 2020.
BUDGET ALLOCATION:
ELECTRICITY: €2,750,000.
THERMAL ENERGY: €7,414,487.
20/10/2020
