THE MEASURE
Making Lazio companies more efficient by aiming for clean energy. The Region drops the ace for entrepreneurs who want to focus on green for their businesses. And with the measure “Energy Efficiency and Renewables for Business” – and with 40 million euros from the 2021-2027 ERDF Program – it supports investments for energy saving and for the production of energy from renewable sources.
THE QUESTION
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. The ideas that will be presented must include investments to improve the energy efficiency of production processes 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 businesses can apply online via the Gecoweb Plus platform of Lazio Innova, the regional company that manages support measures for businesses. The submission procedure is at the counter and will open on Monday 16 September 2024, until available resources are exhausted. «The tender is the first implementation tool in the context of an integrated energy strategy which allocates approximately 160 million of the new programming and which the Lazio Region implements for the green transition of Lazio companies – comments the vice-president of the Region, Roberta Angelilli – For for this reason the Region has prepared a set of measures which are created with the aim of corresponding to a variety of needs, both through financial instruments and through non-repayable grants, which can also be integrated with each other”. For councilor Elena Palazzo, «teamwork» «has allowed us to allocate substantial resources to accompany our companies towards the ambitious objective of making them more competitive and at the same time sustainable through support for investments aimed at improving energy efficiency and to the production of energy from renewable sources”.
THE INSTRUMENT
«It is the right tool that will allow our companies to undertake a virtuous path to win the challenge of the green transition, synergistically combining energy efficiency and productivity, in an era in which geoeconomic structures are being redesigned», declared Fabrizio Penna , Head of Department of the Pnrr Mission Unit at the Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security. During the meeting, the Rome Chamber of Commerce presented the “Cer Announcement – Renewable Energy Communities 2024”, for which the Chamber of Commerce, according to what its president Lorenzo Tagliavanti explains, has “allocated one million euros” to «support the establishment of new renewable energy communities through non-repayable contributions».
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