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On Monday, September 2, the application process for subsidies for home photovoltaic installations and energy storage facilities in the sixth edition of the Mój Prąd program begins. NFOŚiGW has announced important changes to the program regulations. Failure to include them will result in rejection of the subsidy application.
Applications for funding in the next edition of the Mój Prąd programme can be submitted from Monday, 2 September at 9:00 a.m. As part of the upcoming recruitment, funding will be available for fewer devices than in the previous one.
In Moje Prąd 6.0, the subsidy for heat pumps, solar collectors and EMS/HEMS systems treated as a separate subsidy item has been removed. The funds available in the program can be allocated to photovoltaic micro-installations installed in single-family homes, electricity storage facilities and thermal energy storage facilities.
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All photovoltaic micro-installations eligible for funding must be connected to the distribution network, and the subsidized electricity storage must be reported to the local operator. The subsidy will not be available for installations operating in off-grid mode.
The National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management (NFOŚiGW) has divided the beneficiaries of the program into two groups. Prosumers who reported the connection of their photovoltaic micro-installations by the end of July 2024 will not have to invest in an electricity or heat storage facility to receive funding for these installations.
It will be different in the case of prosumers who reported the connection of photovoltaics to the grid after 31 July this year. In their case, in order to receive the PV subsidy from Moje Prąd, it will be necessary to also invest in an electricity or heat storage facility.
Only prosumers who settle in net-billing can receive the subsidy in Moje Prąd 6.0. People who have previously started settling energy in the net-metering system (discounts) must document the transition to net-billing in order to receive the subsidy.
Subsidies for installations completed since the beginning of 2021
Funding in Moje Prąd 6.0 will also be available to applicants who launched their photovoltaic installations before the start of the recruitment. The cost eligibility period adopted in the program is 1 January 2021–31 December 2027. Funding may be provided for photovoltaic micro-installations and other devices for storing electricity and/or heat, the purchase and installation of which was not completed before 1 January 2021.
The commencement of the investment is understood, in accordance with the programme regulations, as the date of incurring the first cost subject to subsidy or the date of connecting the micro-installation to the network, confirmed in a certificate issued by the distribution network operator (the earlier date is decisive).
The investment will be considered completed upon connection and payment of the subsidized installations. The decisive date is the launch of the last device or the date of payment of the last invoice or receipt – depending on which of these dates is later.
Amount of subsidy
As in previous editions of Moje Prąd, in the recruitment that is starting, co-financing will be granted in the form of a subsidy (grant), which should not exceed 50% of the eligible costs of the installed devices. For photovoltaic micro-installations reported for connection by the end of July this year, the maximum co-financing will amount to PLN 6,000, and in the case of photovoltaic installations with an electric/thermal energy storage, the PV subsidy will amount to a maximum of PLN 7,000.
Prosumers from both groups will be able to receive a subsidy for electricity storage in the amount of PLN 16,000, and the subsidy for heat storage will amount to a maximum of PLN 5,000.
Funding is only available for new devices that were manufactured within 2 years prior to installation.
Parameters of subsidized devices
In the case of investments reported for connection by the end of July this year, funding will be available – as in all previous editions of the Mój Prąd program – for photovoltaic micro-installations in the power range of 2-10 kW. In the case of PV installations reported for connection from the beginning of August, the power range is 2-20 kW (at the same time, there is an obligation to install an energy storage).
Importantly, subsidies may be granted for photovoltaic installations that have not only been installed on the roof of a single-family home or on land in its vicinity. Subsidies may also be obtained for installations mounted on carports, awnings and balconies (in the latter case, however, it may be difficult to meet the condition of installing panels with a power of at least 2 kW).
In the scope of electricity storage, the condition of minimum capacity of 2 kWh has been maintained. The capacity of the energy storage reported for co-financing should be at least 1.5x per 1 Wp of photovoltaic power. The maximum total power of the photovoltaic installation and energy storage cannot exceed 50 kW.
The subsidized energy storage should be permanently installed at the address where the photovoltaic micro-installation was installed. You cannot receive subsidies for mobile energy storage.
In the case of thermal energy storage, the minimum tank capacity is 20 dm2, which is to correspond to the average domestic hot water demand of one person. Funding can be obtained for: domestic hot water tanks powered by a heat pump or an electric boiler, domestic hot water tanks with an electric heater, heat buffers powered by a heat pump or an electric boiler, heat buffers with an electric heater, heat buffers together with a domestic hot water tank constituting one complete device, air-to-water heat pump, i.e. domestic hot water heat pump + domestic hot water tank or domestic hot water heat pump with an integrated tank.
It is not possible to obtain funding for heat storage devices that do not affect the increase in self-consumption of electricity generated by the photovoltaic micro-installation – e.g. for a domestic hot water tank and/or a heat buffer powered by a solid fuel boiler or a gas boiler.
Beware of oversizing the PV installation
The Moje Prąd 6.0 Regulations assume that the power of a photovoltaic micro-installation should be adjusted to the annual electricity demand of the household that is the beneficiary of the program.
According to the terms of the program, the PV micro-installation should be selected so that the total amount of electricity produced and fed into the grid in the annual billing period does not exceed 120 percent of the total amount of energy drawn from the grid in the same period.
New conditions. These errors will result in rejection of the application
On the occasion of the commencement of the recruitment process, the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management highlights two new conditions that persons preparing applications for funding must remember.
The first condition that the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management draws attention to is the need to attach to the application a certificate issued by the relevant distribution system operator (DSO), to whose network the photovoltaic micro-installation has been connected. The lack of a certificate from the DSO will mean rejection of the application from the very beginning. The template of the certificate from the DSO has been made available on the program website along with other necessary documents. at this link.
The application will also be rejected if it does not include the applicant’s email address (or the address of someone from their family). Including only the proxy’s address in the application will result in rejection of the application.
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When does recruitment end?
Applications for Moje Prąd 6.0 will be accepted until 20 December 2024 or until the available funds are exhausted. The budget of this edition of the program is lower than the previous ones – it amounts to PLN 400 million. The money for this purpose comes from the European Funds for Infrastructure, Climate, Environment (FEnIKS 2021-2027).
Installations covered by funding from Moje Prąd cannot be subject to funding from other public funds, e.g. those made available under the Clean Air program. Funding will also not be granted for devices financed using leasing if, on the date of submitting the application in Moje Prąd, the ownership title has not been transferred.
The National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management expects that prosumer investments implemented with funding from Moje Prąd 6.0 will enable an increase in the installed photovoltaic potential in Poland by at least 319 MW.
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Peter Spider
piotr.pajak@gramwzielone.pl
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