With new data, it is expected to be announced in the coming weeks the new “Excoionamo” program, which – according to the Ministry of Environment and Energy – will consider different criteria and scoring for households with disabled members, large families, while the system with the degree days applied for the heating allowance.
As it has become known, the income criteria that were the norm in the respective programs until now will not be taken into account, however in the new “Save” vulnerable citizens will be rewarded and the goal is not to benefit households that may not need the program but enter as beneficiaries because they hide incomes.
The degree days in Execoonamo
Those who live in areas with a greater need for heating due to their geographical location are expected to be subsidized more and have priority. In particular, as in the heating allowance, degree days are an indicator for the severity of the climate of an area and are used in the calculation of the heating loads of a building and the required energy consumption for its heating.
In areas with extreme cold (degree-day factor above 1), the amount of the heating allowance support for the past year was increased by 25% for the beneficiaries, according to the NEON publication.
It is worth noting that heating degree days and cooling degree days are used to estimate the energy needs of buildings. Heating degree days are a measure of how many degrees and for how many days the outdoor temperature is lower than a baseline comfort temperature and is used for calculations about the energy consumption required to heat buildings . Accordingly, cooling degree days is a measure of how many degrees and for how many days the outside temperature is higher than a basic comfort temperature and is used for calculations about the energy consumption required to cool buildings.
Commenting on the upcoming announcement of the program, sources from the Ministry of Environment and Energy report to “NEA” that from the autumn the new “Exkoyonamo” will be based on this system (note: of degree days), which will ensure that all investments completed they will certainly be more efficient in terms of climate performance as well as economic.
And this is because, as Minister Theodoros Skylakakis has mentioned, “one of the great difficulties is that there is no demand due to the financial performance of the relevant interventions, which in Greece are less attractive compared to the rest of Europe”.
For this reason – according to the same sources – degree days are needed, “a measure first introduced by the government when it designed the heating allowance”.
The budget
About 700 million euros have been secured from the ESAP for the implementation of “Excoionamo 2024”, while 170 million euros are expected to be added from RePowerEu.
It is recalled that the main axis of the interventions for the energy upgrade of households will be the installation of heat pumps, a technology promoted by the European Union, as – as can be seen from the guidelines – they are expected to become mandatory for new heating systems from 2029.
At the same time, the increase of heat pump installations is also a goal of our country, according to the revised National Plan for Energy and Climate (ESEK). In particular, the goal is to increase the percentage of households that have installed heat pumps from 7% today to 17% by 2030 and 91% by 2050.
The new program for households will provide for increased subsidies for the installation of heat pumps, while other interventions related to upgrading thermal insulation, hot water use systems, changing frames, sunshades, etc. will remain in the eligible costs.
With regard to the program, which will exclusively concern low-income households that own a single-family house or apartment and wish to upgrade them energy-wise, according to the Ministry of the Interior, it will have a total budget of approximately 30 million euros from the Recovery and Resilience Fund.
In this, the evaluation of the applications will be done using the “First In, First Out” direct process method, i.e. based on the order of priority as it results from the date and time of their final submission, while approximately 95% of the cost of the interventions will be subsidized , with the ceiling probably set at 10,000 euros per beneficiary.
Source: ot.gr
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