The Ministry of Industry, Energy Transition and Sustainability will have a budget of 631.3 million euros in 2025 and will be at the service of use of renewable energy, competitiveness of companies and industry.
The Ministry of Industry, Energy Transition and Sustainability has a budget of 631 million euros in 2025. reindustrialization servicethe competitiveness of companies and the deployment of renewable energy sources, which represent almost 32 million euros more compared to the 2024 budget, an increase of 5.2% (higher than the average for other departments).
“Faced with a historic moment like we are experiencing now, we present an ambitious budget for 2025. We want to make a qualitative leap and position Euskadi as the spearhead of reindustrialization in Europe. We will invest so that our The industry must play a leading role in the energy transition and digital transformation. We must decide whether we want to be pioneers in the face of future challenges or lag behind,” said advisor Mikel Jauregi during the presentation of the budgets before the Commission on Industry, Energy Transition and Sustainability of the Basque Parliament.
With the aim of helping Euskadi grow in well-being and laying the foundations for the industry of the future, the 2025 budget is structured in three blocks: more industry, better industry and fewer emissions.
More industry
As Minister Jauregi stated: “The industrial character of Euskadi has been crucial in sustaining the prosperity model we have today. The industry is one of the key drivers of competitiveness and growth, which is why we are going to launch a new Strategic Industrial Development Plan 2028 to position Euskadi as spearhead of reindustrialization in Europe.”
This chapter includes more than 60 million euros, distributed in the SME Industrial Development Program. SPRI Group’s key industrial programs will remain in place through 2025 INDARTU programme, aimed at disadvantaged areaswill have a budget of 20 million euros, as will the GAUZATU, which maintains the budget provision of recent years, 28 million euros. We continue to support the industrial cluster policy with 4 million euros and Industry 4.0 with a further 8 million euros.
In 2025, 325,000 m² of industrial plots from the recovery of disused assets will be made available to the new industry (with a legislative target of 1,250,000 m2). SPRILUR will spend 49.3 million euros on this objective. He gave as an example the case of Sidenor, with 99,000 m2 in the works tender procedure for the second phase. On the other hand, to enable and make available to the market 1,600,000 m2 of industrial plots new urban developments €33.3 million is allocated. For example, Larrin (Azpeitia) stands out with 109,000 m2 and Eskusaitzeta (Donostia) with 130,000 m2.
The Ministry will continue to support the internationalization of Basque companies, and to this end it plans to strengthen the Euskadi Foreign Network with 34.8 million euros, an increase of 10%, to support small and medium-sized businesses through the various commercial offices of the Basque region. Basque Trade & Investment – Basque Internationalization Agency, which currently has 22 commercial offices of its own and will add a 23rd in Australia by the end of 2024. So it is present programs and assistance for the internationalization of SMEs and Scholarships for training young people internationally for a value of €23.8 million, including the Global Training Scholarships or the BEINT Scholarships.
It is will strengthen innovative entrepreneurship with 7.7 million. To this would be added €2.5 million to be allocated to the BICs of Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, or the strengthening of the BIND 4.0 startup acceleration program by €1.1 million.
Dear industry
For Jauregi, “innovation, research and technological development are essential levers for the competitiveness of Basque companies”. He has put forward that there will be a profound transformation of Euskadi’s productive fabric in the coming decades. The commitment of this department is to support this transformation, which requires relevant and growing public-private investments.
He budget allocated to R&D&I It amounts to 285 million euros and, according to homogeneous data, represents an increase in support for the field of innovation by 6.3%. Of this, EUR 257 million is allocated to the budget for the call for R&D&I and digitalization programs. The increase in its own programs is notable, for example, in ELKARTEK with € 47 million (increase of 6.8%) or HAZITEK’s € 93 million. The EMAITEK+ will be strengthened by €58.6 million, a remarkable figure considering the transfer of funds from the CICs (Cooperative Research Centres), which will now be managed by the Department of Science, Universities and Innovation.
In the technology field, the “Innobideak Fast Track” program, aimed at facilitating the acceleration of R&D projects towards industrial scale-up and market reach, will be increased by 32%, up to an amount of up to €10 million. There is one novelty new game for EUSKORPUSa project shared by the Ministries of Culture and Industry, to create a bank of digital linguistic resources in Basque. This amounts to a total of €5 million, 2 million for 2025 and 3 million for 2026.
As for digital transformation, an aid program amounting to EUR 30 million is presented, including aid for digital industry, artificial intelligence, cybersecurityor smart industry and quantum technologies.
Euskadi’s technology parks are destined to play a fundamental role on the path to a better industry, and therefore it is essential to promote the development of new infrastructures that prepare them for recruitment and implementation of new business projects. The investments in the technology parks will amount to 49 million euros, with an emphasis on the €13 million for the Galarreta building in Gipuzkoa, €10.3 million for the Zorrotzaurre campus in Bizkaia or the €7 million for the María Telkes building on the Abanto campus.
Less emissions and renewable energy sources
Euskadi is marked as country has an ambitious decarbonization target by 2050: be emission neutral. To achieve this, this transition must take place in an orderly manner, promoting sustainable and fair development. Mikel Jauregi has stated that “the Ministry of Industry, Energy Transition and Sustainability wants to lead this change together with the industry and hand in hand with the industry.
For this reason, this ministry has committed itself to investing. It is aware that the decarbonization process continues Measures are needed to promote energy efficiency and self-consumption, which we have been working on for some time, as well as the development of new infrastructure, a fundamentally renewable electricity generation, with photovoltaic wind and solar power plants.”
The legislative commitment to invest €260 million in decarbonization is launched; In 2025 this means: €22 million for energy efficiency and industrial decarbonizationand 80 million euros for the promotion of self-consumption.
For 2025, a special commitment is proposed to strengthen the subsidy programs, both of the Ministry and of the EVE – Basque Energy Entity, with own resources and without preventing other funds from the European Commission and the State from reaching them. In total, an investment of 260 million euros in equity is being considered decarbonization throughout the legislature.
Industrial energy efficiency and emissions reduction will be promoted with an investment of EUR 100 million over four years, strengthening the support mechanisms for investments that contribute to energy efficiency in the industrial field. Therefore, €22 million will be included in the decarbonization program this year.
With regard to renewable electricity and self-consumption, the Ministry will mobilize 160 million euros for industrial and household self-sufficiency during the legislature, with a six-monthly allocation already allocated for the promotion of self-consumption and the electrification of thermal consumption of €80 million.
The EVE will allocate €47.3 million to participation in renewable initiatives in general (photovoltaic solar energy, wind, hydrogen, biomassetc.), highlighting the EUR 18 million allocated to solar photovoltaic projects.
The The circular economy will be crucial for the sustainable development of Euskadiand therefore the budget in this area is increased. On the one hand, existing programs will be strengthened and new investments will be allocated, such as €17 million for the Metabarri biomethanization plant to process 40,000 tons of waste from the brown container, and €2.5 million for the improvement of the garbigunes in Bizkaia. .
As a novelty, a project for the digitalization of waste will be promoted, setting up an intelligent system capable of doing this collect data on waste movements in real time. In addition, the contracting of the PTS project for the waste processing infrastructure is planned.
A total of €9 million will be allocated from the department and IHOBE to the transition of the Basque company to the circular economy. Public-private partnership initiatives such as the Basque Ecodesign Center and the Pyme Circular program are strengthened. A new Basque Circular HUB headquarters will also open in Arrasate.
In terms of climate action, the priority set by the Energy Transition and Climate Change Act approved in 2024, which requires the deployment of initiatives and instruments included in the law, such as the design of the registry, the revitalization of citizen participation instruments, or the methodologies to include the climate variable in regulations and sectoral planning.
In the fight against climate change we will bet for improving environmental educationfor which the new Ekoetxea network will be fundamental. The department plans to evolve towards a broader network, going from a network of 4 centers in 2021 to 6 of its own centers in 2028. In this sense, the allocation of € 3.2 million for the new Ekoetxea of Añana and the external adjustment of the of Urdaibai (Torre Madariaga) by € 1.2 million.
The Conservation of biodiversity will be another line of budgetary action. To this end, relevant environmental restoration actions will continue, such as, for example, the completion of the €1.1 million Bidasoa Islands project in Txingudi and almost €2 million for the Urdaibai Biosphere.
Finally, the forecast of the URA – Basque Water Agency is to invest €105 million over four years to reduce the population at risk of flooding by 20%. €26 million has been budgeted for 2025 objective of dealing with floodsthat will be invested in Zadorra-Phase4 (Vitoria-Gasteiz), Cadagua (Aranguren-Zalla), Ziako (Andoain) or Soraluze, among others. To continue to guarantee sanitation and purification services, 7.9 million euros will be spent on actions in Antzuola, Mallabia (Goitondo), Mungia, the port of Bilbao or Manzanos.
In parallel with these budgets, in January 2025 a ambitious support plan for SMEswhich will be financed with a grant of more than 500 million euros by both the department and the various public companies.