The call for subsidies for the digitalization of the urban water cycle It was closed with a total of 238 applications and aid requested for an amount of more than 1,089 million euros. A total of 3,645 municipalities from all the autonomous communities and provinces of Spain have participated. The call will be resolved within six months and the amount of aid per project will range between 500,000 and 10 million euros.
The second call for PERTE aid Digitization of the Water Cyclepromoted by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO), whose application period ended on December 22, 2023, It closed with 238 projects presented. The study and evaluation period will be six months.
The amounts of aid requested range between 500,000 and 10 million euros, reaching a total requested aid of 1,089,320,431.27 eurosout of a total of 200 million available in the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
Entities participating in the call for subsidies for the digitalization of the urban water cycle
The autonomous community with the highest participation in number of applications and amount requested It has been Andalusiafollowed by Catalonia and the Valencian Community.
Likewise, great interest can be seen on the part of the municipalities, since the subsidies They cover a total of 3,645 of them, with those with between 100 and 500 inhabitants participating the most in number. Those with more than 100,000 inhabitants are those that request the greatest amount of help. In more than a hundred applications, the scope of the project includes more than five municipalities, exhausting the reserve of 60 million euros provided for in the bases.
Furthermore, not only individual municipalities have submitted applications. They have also done it in groups of between 2 and 71 entities, reaching around 500. Mostly town councils, but also private operators and mixed companies. It is private operators that request greater aid, followed by public business entities.
The objective of the call for subsidies for the digitalization of the urban water cycle
The fundamental objective of these subsidies is improve the efficiency of the integral urban water cycle, from collection, storage and distribution, to sanitation and purification, thus contributing to more efficient and sustainable use of this resource.