A 40 million investment to encourage the energy saving and the energy production from renewables of businesses. That’s worth it energy announcement, presented on Wednesday 19 June by Lazio region. “The tender is the first implementation tool as part of an integrated energy strategy which allocates around 160 million of the new programming for the green transition of Lazio companies”, stated the vice-president Roberta Angelilli. “For this reason, the Region has prepared a set of measures that are created with the aim of responding to a variety of needs, both through financial instruments and through non-repayable grants, which can also be integrated with each other. The 40 million tender aims to involve companies and generate significant private investments”, adds Angelilli.
The 40 million dedicated to this new measure of the Lazio Region come from resources of the ERDF program 2021-2027, which supports investments in energy saving and the production of energy from renewable sources by companies in Lazio. The contribution is non-repayable. Each project must be worth no less than 150 thousand euros with a maximum contribution of 2 million euros for each project. There is no maximum cap on the value of the project. The projects must include investments to improve the energy efficiency of production processes and/or buildings, which can be combined with those for the production of energy from renewable sources. The contribution relating to investments for the production of energy from renewable sources cannot exceed 50% of the total financeable amount for the entire project. Interested companies can apply online, via GeCoWEB Plus platform by Lazio Innova.
“With this tender, the Region has allocated substantial resources to accompany our companies towards the ambitious goal of making them more competitive and at the same time sustainable through support for investments aimed at increasing energy efficiency and producing energy from renewable sources. This will allow us to support various entrepreneurial realities in the Lazio production sector”, explains the councilor Elena Palazzo.
“In the current scenario, the tender is the right tool that will allow companies to undertake a virtuous path to overcome the challenge of green transitioncombining energy efficiency and productivity in a synergistic way, in an era in which geoeconomic structures are being redesigned”, underlines Fabrizio Penna, head of department of the Pnrr mission unit at the Ministry of Environment and Energy Security. “In addition to investments in capital goods, the measure is also aimed at the formation of a new way of thinking about energy, which is increasingly oriented towards innovation, competitiveness and value creation in the European and global context. Furthermore, with the approval of this tender, the fruitful cooperation between the institutions of the country system has been consolidated, already tested in the previous months through exchanges and positive discussions both at a technical and political level. Italy is thus committed to actively supporting Italian companies in the transition towards a more sustainable economy, which promotes promotion, economic growth, environmental protection, social cohesion and energy efficiency”, concludes Penna.
“This call is the first step in a series of measures that the Region plans to launch to accelerate the ecological transition of companies in the area. I hope that the proactivity of the Lazio Region will be an example for the other Regions in promoting effective systemic action that will leverage private investments and to which the 2024 CER Call of the Rome Chamber of Commerce is also connected, which by making vouchers available for businesses it will encourage the diffusion of Renewable Energy Communities“, goes on Agostino Re Rebaudengopresident of Elettricità Futura.
During the meeting, the Rome Chamber of Commerce presented the “Cer Announcement – Renewable Energy Communities 2024”. “Specifically – says the president Lorenzo Tagliaventi – the Cer call aims to encourage the adoption of innovative tools for the production and consumption of energy from renewable sources by companies in Rome and its province. Our institution has allocated one million euros for this measure, resources that are available to support the establishment of new renewable energy communities through non-refundable contributions”.
