The Minister of Investments and European Projects, Adrian Caciu, announces that after the introduction of the REPowerEU chapter in the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), approximately 60,000 households in Romania will be able to benefit from funds for the installation of photovoltaic panels. and batteries, as well as to increase the energy efficiency of buildings, News.ro reports.

The program for photovoltaic panels will work in parallel with the AFM – “Casa Verde Fotovoltaice” program and is aimed at self-consumption, not at those who want to become consumers.

“In addition to submitting payment claim number 3, we have a new PNRR. It is good to say that because through the new PNRR that we have agreed with the European Commission and which has been approved by the Commission, we have introduced the REPowerEU section, where we have a new funding of €1.4 billion that will start to be implemented from this year, from 2024 , and there are the most important allocations for people, for citizens, for households, where we have 1.2 billion euros for photovoltaic panels and batteries, vouchers for this type of investment and, on the other hand, for the energy efficiency of individual households, houses,” said Adrian Cachiu on Wednesday night on Digi 24.

Adrian Cachiu clarified that the program through PNRR will work in parallel with the program of the Environmental Fund Administration – “Green Photoelectric House”.

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“On the REPowerEU side, on the investment side of PV panels and storage, batteries, these investments go hand in hand, so basically it’s not just for panels, it’s for people who need to ensure their energy sufficiency, attention, is not a program for buyers .

So those who will benefit from these vouchers will have enough energy for their own consumption and not to be energy producers, the value of the voucher for the PV panels is up to 25,000 lei and I say up to 25,000 lei because it depends from each household, this is the equivalent of 5 kilowatts for a household, somewhere maybe you only need 3, somewhere 4, accompany this 25,000 lei on the panel another 25,000 lei on the storage capacity, on the battery, so 50,000 lei per household comes to this type of investment,” Cachiu explained.

He revealed that the second component of the program, which is aimed at improving the energy efficiency of buildings, is called “Energy-efficient house” and involves the allocation of vouchers for a maximum amount of 76,500 lei for wrapping houses.

According to Cachiu, the goal of these two programs is the rural environment, and the Ministry of Investments and European Projects proposes to work with county and local authorities to ensure that these funds go where they are needed.

The minister claimed that the procedure would be very simple “as the citizen would only submit a simple request”, the bureaucracy and accounting elements would be handled by the county council for rural areas or the town hall in the case of housing in an urban area.

“In January, we launch the basic regulatory act, the legislative framework, I want to believe that the implementation of the program will begin at the end of February. Our goal is to have 60% of the program completed by December 31, 2024,” added Digi 24’s Adrian Cachiu.

According to him, approximately 60,000 households will benefit from these two programs. (News.ro)

The fever of photovoltaic panels has swept the whole country, and at the moment there is no country that is completely devoid of consumers. In total, Romania had 101,605 consumers at the end of October 2023 with a total installed capacity of 1,298 MW, according to the latest data published by the National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE).

Ilfov, Timișoara and Arad are among the best counties with the largest number of consumers, which shows that to be part of this club requires, firstly, financial resources, and secondly, an area with great solar potential.