These grants are aimed at individuals and homeowners’ associations and have a budget of 3.5 million euros.
Individuals and homeowners’ associations in the Balearic Islands will be able to apply from Monday for grants to promote photovoltaic and micro-electric solar energy installations (FOTOPAR), which have a budget of 3.5 million euros.
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This aid, established within the ERDF Operational Programme 2021-2027, is aimed at promoting photovoltaic solar energy installations of up to 5 kW peak power for the 2022 financial year. Likewise, micro-wind installations of up to 5 kW for individuals and up to 100 kW for communities of owners are also eligible.
This call is also aimed at subsidising new lithium-ion storage systems that are incorporated into new photovoltaic or micro-wind installations, provided that these installations are off-grid.
It should be noted that 60% of this aid may be co-financed within the ERDF Operational Programme 2021-2027 of the Balearic Islands. The definitive co-financing of the action will be conditional on the approval of this regional operational programme for the Balearic Islands for the period 2021-2027.
The director-general of Energy and Climate Change, Pep Malagrava, said that “with this aid, we want to give a boost to the residential sector to incorporate photovoltaic and micro-electric solar energy and reduce the consumption of electricity from the grid or generators, as well as CO2 emissions”. “Society in the Balearic Islands is committed to self-consumption, and the government wants to continue supporting the residential sector and, above all, residents’ associations to install self-consumption systems and thus reduce electricity bills and CO2 emissions,” he added.
The beneficiaries of this aid may be natural persons who are domiciled in the Balearic Islands, who do not carry out any economic activity by which they offer goods and/or services on the market, and communities of owners who carry out the installations established in section 4 of this Resolution in homes or facilities located in the territory of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands.
Applications can be submitted telematically through the specific procedure for subsidies that will be made available to interested parties on the website http://energia.caib.cat, which corresponds to the website of the Directorate-General for Energy and Climate Change.
It should be noted that the Government has already earmarked more than 10 million euros for self-consumption and plans to invest more than 20 million over the next two years.