Increasing energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources in manufacturing industries
Fund: European Regional Development Fund
Operational programme: Competitiveness and Cohesion Operational Programme 2014-2020.
Type of competition: Open call for proposals (grants)
Status: open from 10/10/2017 to 17/01/2018
Competent authority: Ministry of Environment and Energy
Area: energy efficiency
Applicants: small and medium-sized enterprises, micro-entrepreneurs, large enterprises
Summary: The call is implemented under the Operational Programme ” Competitiveness and Cohesion 2014-2020, Priority Axis 4 “Promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy sources”; Specific objective 4b1 ‘Increasing energy efficiency and the use of RES in manufacturing industries’.
The total available grant amount for the award under this Call is HRK 114,000,000.00.
Minimum amount aid per individual project: 350.000,00 HRK
Maximum amount aid per individual project: 20.000.000,00 HRK
Applicants
Applicants under this Call can be micro, small, medium and large private companies[1]registered to carry out activities in the manufacturing industry which include all manufacturing and processing activities in accordance with the National Classification of Activities published in the Decision on the National Classification of Activities 2007 – NKD 2007 (NN Nos 58/27, 72/07), with the exception of the activities of production and processing of food, beverages and tobacco products. In accordance with the above description and the Decision, applicants who are undertakings registered to carry out activities in Sections B, 05-09 and C, 13-33 are eligible.
Purpose(s) of the call
The purpose of the call is to support the implementation of energy efficiency measures and/or measures for the use of renewable energy sources that will lead to a reduction in the consumption of delivered energy of at least 20 in production facilities.% in relation to the reference delivered energy or in relation to the consumption of delivered energy before the implementation of the measures.
In addition to energy efficiency measures and/or installation of equipment for the use of renewable energy sources in production facilities, the project proposal may also include energy renovation measures for buildings accompanying the production facility, which are exclusively related to the production processes of industrial and/or production-economic purposes (such as office buildings, production halls, etc.) (hereinafter: buildings). In this case, it will support the implementation of energy efficiency measures and the installation of equipment for the use of renewable energy sources that will lead to a reduction in the consumption of delivered heating/cooling energy of at least 40 in buildings.% in relation to the consumption of delivered energy before the implementation of the measures.
This Call is conducted as an open procedure in the modalities of the Interim Call for Proposals with the deadline for the submission of project proposals by 17 January 2018, and the submission of project proposals is allowed from 10 November 2017 at the earliest.
[1] Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises’ or ‘SMEs — these’ means enterprises that fulfil the conditions set out in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EU) No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. A ‘large enterprise’ is an enterprise which does not fulfil the conditions set out in Annex I to Regulation No 651/2014.
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