Subsidies for energy efficiency and renewable energies in companies and residential buildings, co-financed with ERDF (Operational Program, Canary Islands)
It aims to promote the development of energy efficiency and the use of renewable energies in the business sector and the residential sector..
The purpose of the contract is to carry out a global action involving the improvement of energy efficiency and the provision of energy services in several administrative buildings of the Government of the Canary Islands, as well as the performance of predictive, corrective and technical-legal maintenance of the following facilities: transformer station, low voltage electrical installation, generator set, uninterrupted power supply system and air conditioning installation, as well as any other not explicitly mentioned where the awarded company intervenes.
The winning companies commit to carry out works to improve energy consuming installations and to execute investments in energy savings and renewable energies related to air conditioning, lighting, photovoltaic installations, and the centralized management system of consumptions.
The following lines of action are subject to subsidy:
1) Business Sector.
A. Improvement of technology in equipment and industrial processes.
B. Energy efficiency measures in buildings.
C. Renewable energies for the production of electricity in buildings and facilities.
D. Renewable energies for thermal uses in buildings, infrastructures and facilities.
2) Residential Sector.
A. Energy efficiency in buildings.
B. Renewable energies for production of electricity.
Resources needed
• Lot 1 (Buildings in Tenerife), for a total amount of 10,212,465.12 €.
• Lot 2 (Buildings in Gran Canaria) for a total amount of 17,246,084.01 €. The distribution of annual prices are maximum, subject to price revision as described in the contract (final descriptive document).
Evidence of success
Undertook to reduce electricity consumption by:
Gran Canaria, 32.1% annually. Results to date of savings:
• 2016: 42.4%
• 2017: 47.21%
Tenerife, 21.71% annually. Results to date of savings:
• 2016: 26.11%
• 2017: 34.28%
The budget available in 2018 was 791,250.70 €:
1. Business sector: up to 500,000 €, distributed in:
• Improvement of technology in equipment and industrial processes: € 300,000 €
• Rest of the lines within this sector: € 200,000 €
2. Residential Sector 291,250.70 €
Difficulties encountered
The technical complexity derived from all these actions, the constant technological innovations and, requires the collaboration of the private sector specialized in this type of actions, for the final determination of the options that will allow adopting the solution optimum.
Potential for learning or transfer
This program supports the Canary Islands Government´s objective of promoting energy efficiency and the integration of the environmental perspective in all actions on energy consumption and production, in order to contribute to sustainable growth.
Potential projects eligible for the subsidies will have to achieve reduction of the CO2 emissions, by improvements of the energetic efficiency or use of renewable energies, through one or several lines of action of each sector. The execution of a global performance of energy services provision implies the adoption of actions in different areas, from the supply, the management thereof, the improvement works of the facilities, the maintenance of the installations or the implementation of new energy efficiency techniques that, in different combinations, will give different results. Policy for the promotion of energy efficiency in public buildings, exemplary actions in this area by public administrations and promotion of energy services companies
Tags: Energy efficiency, Renewable energy
