CANTABRIA Call: Investment Aid for Electrical and Thermal Power Generation Facilities Using Renewable Energy Sources (IDAE)
Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving – IDAE
At IMPULSO, we are 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 boost renewable energy facilities for both thermal and electrical power production throughout the country.
This aid program is implemented through calls issued by the IDAE in each autonomous community, and is now open in CANTABRIA. Its purpose is to award, under a competitive bidding process, aid for investment projects in electrical power generation facilities using renewable energy sources (ELECTRICAL ENERGY) or in thermal energy production facilities using renewable energy sources and their management improvement and production optimization equipment (THERMAL ENERGY).
Below, we summarize the main features of this aid:
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) | ||
| Biomass | Biomass (100% biological-origin fuels) | Regardless of capacity |
| Hydropower* | Micro-hydropower facilities with or without grid injection | P < 1 MW |
| Wind* | Small-capacity wind facilities | Wind turbines with unit capacity 10 < P ≤ 100 kW (total limit of 1 MW) |
| Very small-capacity wind facilities | Wind turbines with unit capacity P ≤ 10 kW (total limit of 100 kW) | |
| Photovoltaic* | Small-capacity PV, grid sale WITHOUT storage | 100 kW ≤ P < 1 MW |
| PV self-consumption 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 Nominal Power Limit (kW) |
| Aerothermal | Aerothermal with photovoltaic supply | P ≥ 200 |
| Aerothermal with photovoltaic supply for service or industrial application | P ≥ 200 | |
| Biomass | Biomass boilers for low-capacity industrial application | P < 5000 |
| Biomass boilers for high-capacity industrial application | No capacity limit | |
| Biomass for a single building | P ≥ 400 | |
| Renewable gases | Biogas production plants including thermal generation for process use in high-capacity industrial application | No capacity limit |
| Biogas production plants including thermal generation for process use in low-capacity industrial application | P < 5000 | |
| Geothermal or hydrothermal | Residential geothermal or hydrothermal | P ≥ 100 |
| Geothermal or hydrothermal for services and industry | P ≥ 100 | |
| Solar thermal | Solar thermal WITHOUT concentration | 25 ≤ 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 aid granted 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 installed capacity, as well as a minimum unit contribution that will be set according to the type of action.
APPLICATION DEADLINE
The deadline for submitting applications is until 12:00 PM on December 9, 2020.
BUDGET ALLOCATION:
ELECTRICAL ENERGY: €1,609,014.83.
THERMAL ENERGY: €1,609,013.
19/10/2020
