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Small and medium-sized enterprises, which want to access grants of up to RON 2 million for modern technologies and energy efficiency, will be able to benefit from free expertise in identifying the energy needs of entrepreneurial activity in order to be able to apply to the repowering and energy efficiency programme. This will be achieved thanks to the extended partnership between the Organisation for the Development of Entrepreneurship (ODA) and the Future Technologies Project, funded by USAID and the Swedish Government, announcing new support instruments in the implementation of this programme. Furthermore, at the stage of evaluating the applications to the programme, ODA will benefit from the support of experts from the Technical University of Moldova who will carry out the technical expertise of the investment projects.

Deputy Director ODA, Marin Ghenciu appreciated the importance of expanding the partnership with the Future Technologies Project to support the modernisation and energy efficiency of domestic companies.

“Thanks to the support of the Future Technologies Project, it will be the process of applying domestic companies to the repowering and energy efficiency programme has been simplified. The Obșască Green City Lab Association will provide economic operators with the necessary support to correctly identify the technical needs in the field of implementing energy efficiency measures and to correctly identify and use equipment for the recovery of alternative energy sources. At the same time, our partners will support us with independent academic experts for a meaningful and independent assessment of investment projects from the point of view of the technical feasibility of the proposed investments’, he mentioned Marin Ghenciu.

“The Future Technologies project extends the partnership with ODA. With the new Technology and Energy Efficiency Programme, we will provide expertise to stimulate SMEs to adopt modern, energy-efficient and renewables-connected equipment and technologies so as to increase the efficiency and competitiveness of companies on both the local and international market”, supports Doina Nistor, Director of the Future Technologies Project.

The Executive Director of Green City Lab, Victor PARLICOV and the representative of the Technical University of Moldova, Vadim CAZAC, university lecturer at the Faculty of Energy and Electrical Engineering, assured potential beneficiaries of the repowering and energy efficiency programme that they would provide the necessary assistance free of charge to have well-documented investment projects.

Through the Programme repowering and energy efficiency; SMEs can benefit from a grant of 50 % of the investment for the technology and repowering of businesses, but not more than RON 2 million for: automation of the production process; robotisation of production; upgrading existing technology lines; it solutions for the management of production lines; repurposing with performant equipment.

The energy efficiency grant constitutes 50 % of the eligible investment cost, but no more than RON 1.5 million for machinery, equipment and installations for the production of renewable energy, which will ensure that electricity consumption is reduced by at least 15 % compared to existing consumption. Non-repayable financial resources may be used to: solar panels with a heating system; photovoltaic panels for electricity generation; mini wind power installations for electricity generation; machinery and technological equipment for biogas production; machinery and plant for thermal heating. The applicators to this substrate form must have an energy audit report carried out by a qualified energy auditor and registered in the Electronic Register of Energy Auditors.

We would like to remind you that this April: The Organisation for Entrepreneurship Development and the Future Technologies Project, funded by USAID and the Government of Sweden, signed a Partnership Agreement to support the digitalisation of the business environment in the Republic of Moldova. For the 2022-2026 period, the partners proposed to develop and implement two national programmes: The SME Digital Transformation Programme and the Digital Innovation and Technology Start-ups Support Programme. In an additional agreement to this document, the two partners agreed to extend ODA support for the implementation of the repowering and energy efficiency programme.

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