The decree, relating to incentives for renewable energy communities, regulates the incentive methods to support the electricity produced by renewable source plants inserted in self-consumption configurations for the sharing of renewable energy.
Eligible subjects
Renewable energy communities and collective self-consumption systems
from renewable sources located in municipalities with a population of less than 5,000 inhabitants.
Eligible interventions
Expenses incurred for renewable source plants, including upgrades, included within the configurations referred to in paragraph 1, may be eligible for the capital contribution referred to in paragraph 1, if the following conditions occur:
- a) existence of the requirements referred to in letters a) to g) of article 3, paragraph 2;
- b) non-existence of the cases referred to in article 3, paragraph 3;
- c) the start of the works occurs after the date of submission of the contribution application by the beneficiary
- d) possession of the qualification for the construction and operation of the plant, where applicable;
- e) possession of the definitively accepted estimate for connection to the electricity grid, where applicable.
The plants admitted to the contribution referred to in this title must enter into operation within eighteen months from the date of admission to the contribution and
in any case no later than 30 June 2026.
Eligible expenses
The following expenses are eligible:
- the. construction of renewable source systems (for example: components, inverters, assembly structures, electrical components, etc.)
- ii. supply and installation of storage systems;
- iii. purchase and installation of machinery, systems and hardware and software equipment, including expenses for their installation and commissioning;
- iv. building works strictly necessary for the implementation of the intervention;
- v. connection to the national electricity grid;
- you. pre-feasibility studies and expenses necessary for preliminary activities, including expenses necessary to set up the configurations;
- vii. planning, geological and geotechnical investigations, the burden of which is borne by the designer for the design definition of the work;
- viii. works management, safety;
- ix. technical and/or technical-administrative testing, consultancy and/or technical-administrative support essential to the implementation of the project.
The expenses referred to in letters vi) to ix) can be financed to an extent not exceeding 10% of the amount admitted to financing.
The above expenses are eligible within the limit of the maximum reference investment cost equal to:
- €1,500/kW, for systems up to 20 kW;
- €1,200/kW, for systems with a power exceeding 20 kW and up to 200 kW;
- €1,100/kW for power exceeding 200 kW and up to 600 kW;
- €1,050/kW, for systems with a power exceeding 600 kW and up to 1,000 kW.
Value Added Tax (VAT) is not eligible for relief unless it is not recoverable under VAT legislation.
Facilitation
- a) upon express request by the beneficiaries, an advance of up to 10% of the contribution according to the methods and guarantees identified
in the operating rules referred to in article 11; - b) as an alternative to the previous letter a), on the basis of the expenses actually incurred and documented, in a single solution or in
several installments, in consideration of the amounts to be paid and the power of the systems to be incentivized and in relation to the state of progress of the jobs; - c) in any case, the balance payments are paid on the basis of the presentation of the final reimbursement request by the beneficiary, including the documentation proving the conclusion of the subsidized projects and following the signing of the incentive contract
Presentation
Starting April 8, 2024 until funds last.
