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Oct 2020
ASTURIAS Call: Investment Grants for Renewable Electricity and Thermal Energy Generation Facilities (IDAE)
ASTURIAS Call: Investment Grants for Renewable Electricity and Thermal Energy Generation Facilities (IDAE)
Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving – IDAE
From IMPULSO, we are pleased to inform you that the Ministry for Ecological Transition and 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 IDAE in each autonomous community, with the call already open in ASTURIAS. Its purpose is the competitive awarding of grants for investment projects in renewable electricity generation facilities (ELECTRICITY) or renewable thermal energy production facilities and their management improvement and production optimization equipment (THERMAL ENERGY).
Below, we summarize the main characteristics of these grants:
BENEFICIARIES
Natural or legal persons, public or private (including energy service companies in the case of THERMAL ENERGY).
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 |
| Biomass | Biomass (100% biological-origin fuels) | Regardless of capacity |
| Wind* | Small-scale installations | Unit power of wind turbines:
10 kW < P ≤ 100 kW |
| Very small-scale installations | Unit power of wind turbines ≤ 10 kW | |
| Hydroelectric* | Plants with pre-existing infrastructure | 1 kW ≤ P ≤ 10 MW |
| Micro-hydroelectric installations | P < 1 MW | |
| Solar photovoltaic* | Self-consumption with storage | 100 kW ≤ P ≤ 10 MW |
| Micro self-consumption with storage | 10 kW ≤ P < 100 kW |
*modifications to existing facilities are permitted provided they have reached the end of their regulatory useful life
- THERMAL ENERGY: investment projects in renewable thermal energy 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 residential PV | ≥ 200 |
| Aerothermal with PV for services and industry | ≥ 200 | |
| Biomass | BM single building | ≥ 400 |
| BM low-power industrial boilers | 150 ≤ P ≤ 5000 | |
| Geothermal or Hydrothermal | GT or HT residential | ≥ 12 |
| GT or HT for services and industry | ≥ 100 | |
| Solar Thermal | NON-concentrating non-residential | ≥ 25 |
ELIGIBLE COSTS
- ELECTRICITY: Preparation of the execution project, construction management, health and safety coordination, main generation equipment, civil works, foundations, unloading and storage systems, electrical and control systems, hydraulics, pumping, instrumentation, measurement, auxiliaries, monitoring, transport and assembly, commissioning, etc.
- THERMAL ENERGY: Preparation of the execution project, thermal response tests, pumping tests, construction management, health and safety coordination, main generation equipment, accumulation systems, civil works, foundations, unloading and storage systems, heat/cold distribution systems to consumption points, electrical and control systems, hydraulics, pumping, instrumentation, measurement, auxiliaries, monitoring, transport and assembly, commissioning, etc.
PROJECT REQUIREMENTS
- Project duration: the installations must be fully completed before 30 June 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 granted aid 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 aid applicant, the actual installed power (electrical energy) or the actual installed nominal power (thermal energy), as well as a minimum unit contribution that will be established according to the type of action.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
The deadline for submitting applications is until 12:00 PM on November 30, 2020.
BUDGET ALLOCATION:
ELECTRICITY: €7,000,000.
THERMAL ENERGY: €3,000,000.
01/10/2020
