Applications to the PRR- for Energy Efficiency of Service Buildings are open for owners of trade and service buildings, who want to reduce primary energy consumption, increase water efficiency, improve indoor air and noise quality, and contribute to a circular economy. Applications are open until 29th of July.
This Application, included on the Recovery and Resilience Plan – PRR, promotes energy efficiency and other resources that lead, on average, at least 30% reduction in primary energy consumption in the intervened buildings (commercial and serive buildings).
Funding
The maximum contribution rate is 70%, the grant is non-refundable and the maximum allocation per beneficiary is 200,000.00€.
Beneficiaries
The beneficiaries are legal persons and natural owners of existing commercial buildings and private sector services that carry out commercial activity in this building, including entities operating in the area of tourism and social economy entities.
Main Goals
The equipment and solutions supported, as well as their installation, shall comply with national and Community legislation and regulations in force in their respective areas and shall present better energy performance than the original solutions installed or provide improvement of the overall energy performance of the building. In particular, it should be demonstrated that interventions do not lead to significant impacts on the environment in particular through the following:
- (a) the objective of achieving, on average, at least 30% reduction in primary energy consumption;
- (b) Where the application includes water efficiency measures by replacing water-using devices in buildings with more efficient ones, certification of new devices with a water efficiency class equal to or greater than “A” is required in accordance with the ANQIP classification system (https://anqip.pt), or equivalent, and provided that the criteria regarding the maximum flow rates of the devices defined in the Manual for Sanitary Systems established in the National Strategy for Ecological Public Procurement (ENCPE) are met;
- (c) compliance with environmental regimes applicable to indoor air quality and noise;
- (d) contributing to a circular economy based on a sustainable approach to promoting the use of secondary raw materials, waste materials and biological origin, as well as the correct routing of waste produced, in accordance with existing legislation.
