Energy savings – Call V

• Modernisation and reconstruction of electricity, gas and heat distribution in buildings and energy management of production plants to improve efficiency
• Implementation and modernisation of measurement and control systems, e.g. hardware and network measures including relevant software related to the implementation of energy management system according to ČSN EN ISO 50001
• Modernisation, reconstruction of existing energy production equipment for captive use leading to increased efficiency
• Modernisation of lighting systems of buildings and industrial premises (only in case of replacing obsolete technologies with new efficient lighting systems, e.g. light emitting diodes – LED)
• Implementation of measures to reduce the energy efficiency of buildings in the business sector (insulation of the building envelope, exchange and refurbishment of doors and windows, other construction measures having proven effects on the energy performance of the building, installation of air-conditioning with waste heat recovery units)
• Use of waste energy in industrial processes
• Reduction of energy efficiency / increase of energy efficiency of production and technological processes, except for measures on energy sources for distribution, not for captive use leading to increase of its efficiency
• Installation of RES for the company consumption (biomass utilisation, solar systems, heat pumps and photovoltaic systems)
• Installation of a cogeneration unit using electricity and heat, or cooling for the company consumption, taking into account its operating conditions
• Installation of a storage of electric energy (the storage must be operated in energy management, which has its own source of electricity from RES (e.g. PVP) or from CHP (except for coal, light and heavy fuel oils)

• The aid shall support projects with outputs affecting the sectors defined in Annex 1 (A) to the Call.
• The aid shall not support projects with outputs affecting the sectors defined in Annex 1 (B) to the Call.

Eligible expenditure:

• Tangible fixed Assets
• Intangible fixed assets (if required for due operation of the tangible fixed assets)
• Energy assessment
• Engineering
• Project documentation
• Costs of project management organisation

• The minimum grant provided for a project is CZK 500 thousand and the maximum grant is EUR 15 million.
• Aid intensity for expenditure on preparation of energy assessment, project documentation and expenditure on preparation of tender
  -If the grant beneficiary is a small enterprise, the support is provided up to 50% of EE.
  – If the grant beneficiary is a medium-sized enterprise, the support is provided up to 40% of EE.
  – If the grant beneficiary is a large enterprise, the support is provided up to 30% of EE
• Aid intensity for the project
  – If the grant beneficiary is a small enterprise, the support is provided up to 50% of EE.
  – If the grant beneficiary is a medium-sized enterprise, the support is provided up to 40% of EE.
  – If the grant beneficiary is a large enterprise, the support is provided up to 30% of EE.

The applicant/ beneficiary is a business entity that:

• Is a small or medium-sized enterprise according to the definition in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EU) No. 651/2014, or a large enterprise pursuant to the programme conditions and keeps accounts, or tax records expanded with special requirements, or separate accounts for the project
• Is authorised to conduct business corresponding to the supported economic activity which is to be carried out through the project.
• Is, based on its sworn declaration, registered as an income tax payer in any of the EU member states and has been so continuously for at least two closed tax periods preceding the date of submitting the application; the applicant notes that it will have to have an establishment or a branch established in the Czech Republic at the moment of receiving the support.
• Is not, based on its sworn declaration, in arrears to selected institutions in the country of its registration, or in the country where its branch is registered, and to providers of support from projects co-financed from the EU budget.
• It does not have any outstanding liabilities, according to its sworn declaration, based on its employees’ wage and salary claims.
• Natural person doing business under applicable legislation registered in the Commercial Register, natural person doing business under applicable legislation not registered in the Commercial Register, public company, limited liability company, limited partnership, joint stock company, cooperative, production cooperative, agricultural entrepreneur, European company, European cooperative a company, national enterprise, state enterprise, branch, branch of a foreign legal entity, foreign natural person, branch of a foreign natural person, association, registered church legal entity, or an analogous foreign legal form to the above, if the applicant is a foreign entity.