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Economy and Employment presents the European bottoms for urban projects of energetic efficiency

30/05/2013

30 May 2012

The general director of Power and Mines, Ricardo González, has inaugurated the informative day in Castile and Leon of the Bottom ‘Jessica', a conjoint European help in support of sustainable investments in urban zones. The meeting has been organised by the EREN, with the collaboration of the Institute for the Diversification and Saving of the Power (IDAE) and has had more than ciento sixty assistants, mainly representatives of the sector of the local administrations, of the energetic and business sector, representatives of engineers and numerous service companies.

The Bottom of Wallet Jessica Fidae has like purpose promote the implementation of urban projects of energetic efficiency and of use of the renewable energies. These projects will be realised, mainly, by companies of energetic services or other private companies or public deprived, to which the Bottom will provide the suitable financials.

The Bottom constituted by means of an agreement of financials between IDAE and BEI, applying the bottoms Feder relative to the regional operative programs for 10 autonomous communities, between which finds Castile and Leon, more the corresponding amount to the stretch of cofinanciación national.

On a total of 123.000.000 euros of European bottoms foreseen in the program in the geographic field of Castile and Leon, correspond him investments by a value of 9.500.000 euros. To these quantities it is necessary to add the contributions of the entity adjudicator of the gestión of these bottoms in Castile and Leon, BBVA, that will give them the timely information.

The beneficiarios of the financials will be, fundamentally, companies of energetic services ‘ESEs', by what if a public entity wants to benefit of these bottoms, will be indispensable that notarise the project directly through a company. This will allow to improve the systems of energetic services like a prolongation to the ‘Plan of the 2000 ESEs', plan that at present is completing in all the autonomous communities.

The program considers prioritarias investments in projects that in Castile and Leon come considering fundamental in the last years, in energetic efficiency, cogeneration and gestión of the power, in renewable energies that integrate operations of energetic efficiency, and the related with the clean transport.

This initiative supposes an opportunity to promote big projects that help to reach the greater degree of energetic saving in the urban surroundings, what incidirá in the economic saving for the public servicys and at the same time in the consolidation of the emergent economic sector that suppose the companies of energetic services.