MADRID Call for Applications: Investment Grants for Renewable Electrical and Thermal Energy Generation Facilities (IDAE)
Institute for Energy Diversification and Saving – IDAE
IMPULSO is 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 MADRID. Its purpose is the competitive award of grants for investment projects in facilities for generating electrical energy from renewable sources (ELECTRICAL ENERGY) or in facilities for producing thermal energy from renewable sources 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 |
| Renewable Gases / Biogas | Agro-industrial or industrial biogas (electrical generation and utilization) | Regardless of its power |
| Agro-industrial or industrial biogas facilities (electrical utilization only) | ||
| Hydraulic | Micro-hydro facilities with or without grid connection | P < 1 MW |
| Photovoltaic | Small-scale PV grid sale WITH storage | 100 kW ≤ P ≤ 1 MW |
| PV grid sale WITH storage | 1 MW ≤ P ≤ 10 MW | |
| PV micro self-consumption WITH storage | 10 kW ≤ P < 100 kW | |
| PV micro self-consumption WITH storage for vehicle charging | 10 kW ≤ P < 100 kW | |
| PV self-consumption WITH storage | 100 kW ≤ P ≤ 10 MW | |
| PV self-consumption WITH storage for vehicle charging | 100 kW ≤ P ≤ 10 MW | |
| Seasonal PV self-consumption | 100 kW ≤ P ≤ 10 MW | |
| PV WITH hydrogen | 1 MW ≤ P ≤ 10 MW | |
| Small-scale PV grid sale WITHOUT storage | 100 kW ≤ P < 1 MW | |
| PV grid sale WITHOUT storage | 1 MW ≤ P ≤ 10 MW | |
| PV micro self-consumption WITHOUT storage | 10 kW ≤ P < 100 kW | |
| PV self-consumption WITHOUT storage | 100 kW ≤ P ≤ 10 MW | |
| Small-scale PV grid sale WITH FLOATING storage | 100 kW ≤ P ≤ 1 MW | |
| PV grid sale WITH FLOATING storage | 1 MW ≤ P ≤ 10 MW | |
| PV self-consumption WITH FLOATING storage | 100 kW ≤ P ≤ 10 MW |
*Modifications to existing facilities are allowed provided their regulatory useful life has ended
- THERMAL ENERGY: investment projects in facilities for producing thermal energy from renewable sources and in facilities for producing renewable gases, included in the following types of actions linked to renewable energies:
| Energy Source | Type of Action | Lower Nominal Power Limit (kW) |
| Renewable Gases | Biogas production plant including thermal generation for low-power industrial process application | < 5000 |
| Biogas production plants including thermal generation for high-power industrial process application | ≥ 5000 | |
| Boilers for thermal generation that use only biogas as fuel | Regardless of their power | |
| Biomethane (including purification only) | ||
| Biogas + Biomethane (including biogas production and its purification) | ||
| Biomass | BM heat network (generation, distribution, and connection) | ≥ 400 |
| BM boilers for high-power industrial application | ≥ 5000 | |
| Geothermal or Hydrothermal | GT services or industry | ≥ 100 |
| GT with PV services and industry | ≥ 100 | |
| Solar Thermal | WITHOUT concentration | 25 ≤ P ≤ 100 |
| WITHOUT concentration | ≥ 100 | |
| WITH concentration | ≥ 5000 |
ELIGIBLE CONCEPTS
- ELECTRICAL ENERGY: Preparation of the execution project, facultative site management, health and safety coordination, main generation equipment, civil works, foundations, discharge and storage systems, electrical and control systems, hydraulic systems, pumping, instrumentation, measurement, auxiliaries, monitoring, smart distribution networks, transport and assembly, commissioning, etc.
- THERMAL ENERGY: Preparation of the execution project, thermal response test assays, pumping tests, facultative site management, health and safety coordination, main generation equipment, accumulation systems, civil works, foundations, discharge and storage systems, heat/cold distribution systems to consumption points, grid injection systems, high-pressure compression and storage systems for compressed renewable gases, adaptation of vehicles for the transport of renewable gases and service stations, electrical and control systems, hydraulic systems, pumping, instrumentation, measurement, auxiliaries, 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 SUPPORT
Non-repayable grant that IDAE may advance to the beneficiary.
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 applicant, the actual installed nominal power, 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 December 14, 2020.
BUDGET ALLOCATION:
ELECTRICAL ENERGY: €3,048,771.
THERMAL ENERGY: €5,191,176.11.
01/10/2020
