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Energy Efficiency in Italy: the Implementation Decree on the National Fund Has Been Published Marcello Zinno UCIF – Italian Surface Treatment Equipment Manufacturers’ Association, Milan, Italy
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he Decree of December 22, 2017
The Fund works based on a rotatory
granted to the Public Administration
entitled “Mode of operation of
principle and it is divided into two sections
(art.15) can be combined with other
the National Fund for energy
that work for as follows:
incentives, up to a maximum total
- the granting of guarantees on individual
funding of 100 per cent of the eligible
efficiency” was published on the Official Gazette of the Italian Republic no. 54 of March 6, 2018. It describes the priorities, criteria, conditions and
financing transactions, for which 30% of
costs.
the Fund’s annual resources are allocated; - the provision of loans at reduced rates, for
The Fund management will be
methods of operation, management and
which 70% of the Fund’s annual resources
entrusted to Invitalia based on a
intervention of the National Fund for
are allocated.
special agreement with the Ministry DKcomposing © Fotolia
energy efficiency, which is aimed at favouring the financing of interventions necessary to achieve the national
of Economic Development and the Ministry of the Environment
energy efficiency
and Protection
targets, based on
of Land and
established objectives
Sea. For the
and priorities.
start of the
As illustrated in the
operational
presentation of the
phase, the
Ministry of Economic
Fund will count
Development, the Fund
on 150 million
supports the energy
Euros already
efficiency measures
made available
implemented by
by the Ministry
companies and the
of Economic
Public Administration
Development,
on properties, plants
which will
and production processes as follows:
The benefits granted to companies can
allocate another 100 million Euros in
- reduction of energy consumption in
be combined (art.10) with contributory
2018-2020. The Fund will also be fed
or financial benefits provided for by
with the resources made available by
other European, national, and regional
the Ministry of the Environment.
industrial processes, - construction and expansion of district heating networks, - improvement of the efficiency of public
regulations, subject to the de minimis rule, where applicable, or within the
UCIF continues to give prominence to
services and infrastructures, including
maximum aid intensities permitted by
energy efficiency and saving measures,
public lighting,
the current European Union legislation
one of the prides of the surface
on state aid. Similarly, the benefits
treatment plants produced in Italy.
- energy redevelopment of buildings.
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