The endowment of the Support Program for More Sustainable Buildings was increased by 39 million euros, up to a global endowment of 135 million euros, which aims to respond to the high level of adherence to the program, according to an order published this Wednesday.
This is the fifth amendment to the regulations for granting incentives for the 2nd phase of the Support Program for More Sustainable Buildings, within the scope of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), launched in June 2021 with a global allocation of 30 million euros. euros, which it was reinforced in November, January and March, for a global allocation of 96 million eurosnow increased to 135 million euros.
The recent reinforcements in the allocation of funds have been insufficient given the high level of adherence to the Program and now it is important to ensure the financing of eligible applications through a new increase in the allocation of the aforementioned Program”, he justifies, in the published order. today, the Minister for the Environment and for Climate Action, Duarte Cordeiro.
The official recalled that, due to a computer problem that made it impossible to use the application platform on the last day of the deadline (April 30, 2022), the deadline was adjusted to the next business day, May 2, 2022”, with in order to guarantee access to the platform to all candidates” who tried to access without success.
The endowment of the 2nd phase of the Support Program for More Sustainable Buildings is now increased by 39 million euros from the allocation allocated to the investment ‘Energy Efficiency in Residential Buildings’ of the PRR, increasing the global endowment of this incentive to 135 million of euros .
The second phase of the Support Program for More Sustainable Buildings received more than 106 thousand requestsaccording to data from the Ministry of the Environment released at the beginning of May, after ending the program, realizing at the time that it had 26,000 eligible applications, worth 43.7 million euros.
Of the eligible applications, the most requested types of support were: photovoltaic panels, more efficient windows and heat pumps.
The program is financed by the Environmental Fund with funds from the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) and aims to improve the environmental and energy performance of residential buildingsincreasing thermal comfort and reducing the energy bill of homes.
Source: Observadora
