Aid for energy-intensive sectors due to prices of natural gas and electricity

 

The scheme's budget is 5.5 billion zloty.

 

The scheme is designed to provide financial support to energy-intensive businesses which incur additional costs due to high electricity and natural gas prices in 2023.

 

The aid will be available to energy-intensive enterprises from the mining and industrial processing sectors. The aid will be provided in either a basic or extended variant. 

 

All energy-intensive enterprises that operate predominantly in sections B or C of the Polish Classification of Activities (PKD) will be eligible for the basic aid. Energy-intensive enterprises are companies whose electricity and natural gas bills in 2021 accounted for no less than 3% of the value of production sold. 

 

The basic aid can be up to 50% of eligible costs, but not more than 4 million euro calculated jointly for all associated enterprises.

 

Extended aid will, in turn, be available to businesses that meet all of the following additional conditions:

 

 

The extended aid is 80% of the eligible costs up to 40 million euro, calculated in total for all associated enterprises.

 

The call for applications is open until 8 November 2023. 

 

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