Spoke of great interest to citizens about programs
Increase budget for programs ‘Save’ and “I change a heating system and water heater” and a shift in the future to long -term lending programs instead of subsidies was announced by the Minister of Environment and Energy, Theodoros Skylakakis, speaking today at an event by the Ministry for the 7 EUR 7 Energy Save Programs. at this time.
Mr. Skylakakis He has spoken of great interest to these programs as 40,000 applications (1,500 completed) have been submitted since January 8, while the program for heating and water heater impresses the fact that 75,000 applications have been submitted on January 13. , of which (despite the high cost), 31,000 relate to the installation of heat pump (which is why the budget increase will be directed to heat pumps). The exact sizes will be finalized after the application is completed.
The minister said there are 4.3 million houses in the country while the “saving” programs implemented so far covered about 150,000 houses. Therefore, as he pointed out, there are no resources needed to subsidize all of the houses. “We need to recreate the culture of investment in households affected by the crisis, increase long -term lending programs and the EU decide that the goals will be realistic. Greece should not be called upon to allocate tens of billions, which has not, in non -efficient investment. ” He also provided a reduction in subsidy rates in the following programs in order to integrate more households.
According to the EIA RES, in relation to the delays in the previous “saving”, he said they are not due to the lack of resources but to the processes and controls applied by the EU, factors that have been eliminated in the new programs.
Deputy Minister of National Economy and Finance Nikos Papathanassis said that in the first 5 days of February the program “Upgrade My Home” will be announced that will provide interest -free loans without age and income criteria.
Interior Minister Thodoris Lebanese pointed out the challenges faced by local government due to the energy crisis and which are being treated with investments to improve energy efficiency in the buildings of schools and water and sewerage. Initiatives leading through cost reduction and lower municipal fees.
Minister of Education, Religions and Sports Kyriakos Pierrakakis referred to the need for energy upgrading of schools with actions that have started.
Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogiannis emphasized the importance of the green transition to tourism with minimizing the impact of tourism activity on the environment, a issue that is now concerned with tourists. He also referred to mountain tourism enhancement programs that serve the expansion of the Greek tourism product spatial and time.
The Deputy Minister of Environment and Energy Alexandra Sedoukos noted that the last 5 years have been allocated 2.1 billion euros for the energy upgrading of 146,000 houses. He added that in addition to the 7 running programs at this time, the “change device for businesses” and “improve the energy efficiency of the tertiary sector businesses” which I am also active at this time. He also said that the social climate fund is under discussion in the EU for vulnerable citizens.
RIS Secretary -General Aristotle Aivaliotis said that future programs would be more emphasis on heat pumps, which in addition to energy savings contribute to the electricity of the economy. However, he noted the antithesis created by the Community obligation to replace natural gas heating systems (which were until recently subsidized) with heat pumps. As well as upgrading all houses in Category C in the next decade is a goal impossible.
He also said that in the next “saving” there will be less bureaucracy and assignment of third parties to evaluate applications for acceleration of procedures, and energy services will be included.
Orestis Kavalakis Recovery Commander said that out of $ 36 billion in the total budget more than 50% of resources (18.2 billion) have been received, which will rise to 60% in March. He estimated that of them have been disbursed to the market (loans and subsidies) of around € 11 billion.
The programs that have been running since the beginning of the year are “Save 2025”, “I Change Heating and Water System”, “Business Storage Systems”, “Promoting Energy Efficiency in Municipal Water and Sewerage”, “Improve Energy Efficiency mountainous tourist accommodation “,” Energy Upgrading of Municipal Kindergartens “and” Energy Upgrading Kindergartens and Primary Schools “.
