He MITECO The process of public information on the regulatory bases and a first call with more than 750 million for the sector renewable energy. It will boost the national strategic value chain of solar panels, wind turbines, heat pumps, electrolyzers and batteries. “We believe that it is not just enough to change the color of the molecules or electrons; we want capital goods to be produced in Spainsaid Teresa Ribera.
The Vice President and Minister for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, Teresa Ribera, today announced the publication of the draft decree that lays the legal basis for the lines of helps the industrial value chain of renewable energy and storage. The project for an initial call for grants for the production of equipment needed for the transition to a net zero emissions economy is also open to public information, which will be able to release more than 750 million euros, based on the needs identified during the public information process. All this is available here.
Funded with funds from the Addendum to the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR)this first call for help will encourage the production of essential equipment and components of photovoltaic panels, batteries, wind turbines, heat pumps and electrolyzers. Other areas and other value chains could be promoted in future calls.
Supporting the renewable energy industrial value chain
The help is framed in the Strategic Project for the Recovery and Economic Transformation of Renewable Energy, Hydrogen and Storage (PERTE ERHA) – are part of a 1,000 million package aimed at promotion value chain– and aim to strengthen Spain’s strategic industrial autonomy, national energy security and the decarbonization process, in line with the policies defined by the EU.
“We believe that it is not just enough to change the color of the molecules or electrons; The industries behind them and the services behind them offer a great opportunity to reindustrialize and modernize our productive fabric. Therefore we want attention to the industrial value chain to be present in the change processThat is why we want to spend more than 750 million euros on this program, in such a way that the production of the capital goods that will allow us to achieve success is produced in Spain,” the Vice President said today at the announcement. , in Huelva.
The Institute for Energy Diversification and Conservation (IDAE)depending on the ministry Ecological transition and the demographic challenge (MITECO), will administer this support, which will be provided on a competitive basis.
Environmental and social criteria for employment and local activity for support for renewable energy sources
Various criteria will be taken into account when assessing the proposals. selecting the most viable projects with the greatest positive impact, seeking efficiency in the use of public resources; strategic criteria that prioritize projects that better address existing vulnerabilities in the value chain; social criteria such as generating employment and activity in the territory, as well as environmental criteria aimed at minimizing the ecological footprint and maximizing the use of renewable energy in production centers.
In line with the temporary framework for state aid approved by the European Commission, in the first value chain call Projects aimed at promoting innovation and knowledge in the following action lines are subsidized:
- Electrical storage. Manufacture of batteries and their essential components.
- Photovoltaic solar energy. Manufacture of solar panels and their essential components.
- Wind power. Manufacture of wind turbines and their essential components.
- Renewable aerothermal. Manufacture of heat pumps and their essential components.
- Renewable hydrogen. Manufacture of electrolyzers and their essential components.
Both the creation of industrial sites for a new production activity and the expansion of production capacity installed in centers already in operation, through the implementation of new production lines, in addition to the reconversion of existing lines, will be eligible for support. to obtain equipment and/or elements that were not previously in production at the factory.
Technological race to strengthen the value chain of renewable technology components
Spain is a global power in renewable energy and needs to strengthen its value chain of renewable technology components, to ensure energy security, increase competitiveness and decarbonize industry. This, in line with the EU’s basic principles of digital and ecological transformation, with the Plan RepowerEU and with the Net-Zero Industrial Act.
Europe is currently a net importer of renewable energy technologies; about a quarter of the electric batteries and a very important part of the photovoltaic solar panels They come from non-EU countries. In emerging technologies, such as electrolyzersit is also necessary to strengthen the value chain, and even the sectors in which European industry remains strong, such as the wind turbines and heat pumpsas producers face rising energy and input costs.
Net-zero energy technologies are at the center of key geostrategic interests and in the global technology race. Other regions of the world are making major investments and implementing support measures to renew and strengthen their production capacities, and neither the EU nor Spain can lag behind.
Valid until the end of 2025
The validity of the regulatory bases adopted by this order of foundations will extend from their entry into force until December 31, 2025. Given the incentive nature of the aid, Only projects whose implementation has not started before the aid application is submitted will be admitted..
Taking into account the innovative nature of this assistance, a public information process on the regulatory bases and the draft resolution on the first line of incentives for the sustainable value chain is opened, so that Until March 15, sectoral actors and the interested public can make improvements to meet the identified needs.. Comments should be sent to: [email protected]which indicates in the subject ‘Public information incentives Value chain’.