Public administrations and companies that manage water treatment plants, desalination plants and water supplies will have until 30 June 2023 to apply for this aid, which is intended to install around 30 MWp for self-consumption.
The Vice-Presidency and Regional Ministry for Energy Transition, Productive Sectors and Democratic Memory, through the Directorate General for Energy and Climate Change, opened this Friday 23 December, and until 30 June 2023, the public call for grants for energy efficiency actions and/or renewable electricity generation facilities for local entities and water supply and treatment companies, within the actions foreseen in the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan financed by the European Union (NextGenerationEU).
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This aid is part of the Investment Plan for the Energy Transition of the Balearic Islands (PITEIB) which, within programme 3, has a total allocation of 70 million euros, of which 25 million are earmarked for this public call, which will be distributed annually as follows: 5 million for the year 2023 and 10 million for the year 2024 and for the year 2025. The purpose of the call is to promote energy efficiency and/or renewable electricity generation facilities for public administrations and companies that manage water treatment plants, desalination plants and water supplies. Applications must be submitted exclusively online through the following link: https://bit.ly/3GiVurP
In the words of Juan Pedro Yllanes, Vice-President of the Government and Minister for Energy Transition, “the administrations must play an exemplary role and are key to achieving a sustainable energy transition. That is why, with this new call, we want to increase energy efficiency, especially in large energy consumers in the water cycle, in order to reduce the consumption of these facilities, given that climate change will have an impact on various sectors and infrastructures, such as an increase in the strain on available water resources”.
For his part, the director general of Energy and Climate Change, Pep Malagrava, said that “the improvement of the management of all phases of the water cycle is necessarily linked to an improvement in the efficiency of energy consumption and, therefore, the implementation of renewable energies in its processes. The installation of around 30 MWp for self-consumption, either on-site or through the grid, storage solutions and energy efficiency actions to reduce consumption in around 15 facilities are planned. It is also intended to support the financing of a battery system in the water cycle for self-consumption in reservoirs and for storing hydro energy”.
Beneficiaries and action programmes
The beneficiaries of this aid may be local entities in charge of managing their installations and infrastructures related to the water cycle, as well as public or private companies that carry out activities related to the water cycle, within the territorial scope of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands.
In the event that the beneficiary is a public administration and is considered to have economic activity by which it offers goods and/or services on the market, the type of company is determined by the number of workers, i.e.: small company, less than 50 workers; medium-sized company, equal to or more than 50 workers and less than 250 workers; large company, equal to or more than 250 workers. When the beneficiary of the aid is a local entity, it acquires the status of implementing entity. The beneficiaries must use the full amount of the aid they receive to pay for the corresponding eligible actions.
It is fair to say that for this line of aid there are four eligible incentive programmes:
Incentive Programme 1 is focused on the implementation of electricity self-consumption installations, with renewable energy sources, which provide service to infrastructures or installations related to the water cycle. The actions eligible for subsidies under this programme are for investments in new electricity production facilities using photovoltaic technology with a peak power of up to 5 MWp and/or wind power with an installed power of up to 1 MW, and which are located, both the production facility and the associated consumption facilities, within the territory of the Balearic Islands.
Incentive Programme 2 focuses on lithium-ion storage battery systems for self-consumption that serve infrastructures or facilities related to the water cycle. Eligible actions include investments in new lithium-ion storage systems with a capacity of up to 5,000 kWh located downstream of the metering equipment and where both the production facility and the associated consumption facilities are located within the territorial scope of the Balearic Islands. Batteries from the reuse of electric vehicle batteries (second battery life) are also eligible under this programme.
Incentive Programme 3 relating to hydroelectric plants connected to the distribution and/or transport network of up to 5 MW of installed power, which provide energy storage capacity by pumping. The eligible actions of the programme are hydroelectric power plants connected to the distribution and/or transmission grid with an installed capacity of up to 5 MW, which provide pumped storage capacity.
Finally, incentive programme 4 is for the implementation of energy efficiency actions associated with infrastructures or facilities associated with the water cycle that achieve and justify a reduction in final energy consumption of 30 % compared to the initial situation. Eligible actions are those focused on energy efficiency associated with infrastructures or facilities associated with the water cycle that achieve and justify a reduction in final energy consumption of 30 % with respect to the initial situation.