MITECO has made the third call for subsidies through public consultation with the aim of carrying out a significant improvement in the efficiency of the urban water cycle. The funds allocated amount to 50 million euros, but could be increased to 100.
The Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO) has launched public consultation the draft resolution approving the third call for subsidies (2024) in competitive concurrence of projects to improve the efficiency of the urban water cycle (PERTE digitization of the water cycle), within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. The amount is 50 million euros, which may be increased to 100 million.
PERTE water call
The aid is intended for projects of digitization of the urban water cycle that cover high supply, distribution, sanitation and purification, with the clear objective of improving knowledge of water uses, reducing losses, improving the efficiency of the systems, optimizing energy expenditure and promoting transparency and communication with the citizenship and the different public and private entities involved.
The first PERTE call aimed at improving the efficiency of the urban cycle (Order TED/934/2022), of 200 million, was resolved in November 2023 with 30 benefited projects. The second call launched (Order TED/919/2023), for 300 million, was resolved on August 20 with 50 projects benefiting and the final resolution is expected to be published in the coming days
Taking into account the available credit and the interest aroused by these calls, this third call is launched with small changes, but with the aim of providing more opportunities to launch water digitalization projects in small municipalities.
The final publication in the BOE of the resolution of this third call is expected to take place next month. The deadline for shipping of proposals, observations and suggestions ends on October 16.
More MITECO calls
The first call for grants (2023) from PERTE aimed at projects for the digitization of water user communities for irrigation (Order TED/918/2023), of 100 million, was provisionally resolved on August 23. The final resolution will be published soon. The second call will also be launched, for another 100 million
Regarding the second call, the content of the projects is maintained, the maximum amount of these is reduced to 6 million and half of the credit is reserved for projects that cover more than 10 municipalities, including those with less than 20,000 inhabitants.
The projects submitted to this PERTE call They should aim at the digitalization of water, especially in smaller municipalities, something that has become increasingly necessary.