Chaos with energy upgrade subsidy programs

The Environment and Energy Ministry is seeking a temporary λύση via deadline extensions to the chaos that prevails with the “Exikonomo” (i.e. I Save) subsidy programs, arsenic there is simply a hazard of losing important funds that person been committed for their implementation by the Recovery Fund.

Last Friday, the ministry announced the hold of a total of 13 programs aimed astatine households and businesses, with a total fund of implicit 2.5 cardinal euros. In reality, this is simply a hopeless determination by the ministry arsenic it sees it cannot intervene substantially.

The bureaucracy of the programs themselves, the delays successful issuing the required ministerial decisions, the communication-based readying successful galore cases, combined with the bureaucracy of the banks involved, support the programs frozen and the beneficiaries trapped.

The delays, connected the different hand, summation the costs of materials and devices arsenic ostentation “runs” and springiness emergence to over-costing, resulting successful a percent of beneficiaries withdrawing. Technical Chamber (TEE) information amusement 10% of beneficiaries withdraw during the physics individuality submission signifier and an different 10-15% thereafter. The percent of projects not being completed connected clip reaches 35%.

Karthimerini has discovered that – with the objection of the programme “Exikonomo 2021,” which is progressing astatine a satisfactory gait – each programs are experiencing superior delays, while “Exikonomo 2025” is stuck, having a fund of €434 cardinal and nonstop disbursement to households of €396 million. Based connected the programme guide, beneficiaries indispensable implicit the works and submit the completion record within 8 months from the approval, oregon connected February 28, 2026 if this occurs earlier. To date, the ministerial determination for the support of applications has not been issued, resulting successful the implementation clip being considered unrealistic adjacent aft the hold of the programme to March 31, 2026.

A 2nd contented concerns the accrued tenable outgo of the works, a effect of the plan of the programme that does not supply for a “ceiling,” similar the erstwhile ones.