Environmental Fund misses target: only 5,261 families received support for windows and solar panels by September
It didn’t happen and the real-time table gives us a more detailed view of progress: by the end of this Monday, September 30th, the approved amount was €9.3 million, resulting from 6037 applications already considered eligible. But the money has only reached or is about to reach 5261 families.
Refining the different phases of evaluation at the moment, 64,353 applications are “submitted” and 12,179 “being completed”. In “financial analysis” there are 411 and in “technical analysis” 5466. In addition, there are 1749 “ineligible or canceled” submissions and 3051 “withdrawals”.
Funded by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), PAES 2023 was launched in August last year to distribute global support of €30 million to families who have invested in improving the energy performance of their homes, such as through the installation of windows efficient, solar panels or thermal insulation.
The initiative received more than 78 thousand applications until October 31st e The expectation was that these requests would begin to be assessed in January, but the deadline ended up slipping as a result of the lack of technical resources. Thus, it was only on July 19th (seven months later), and with the help of universities, that work began.
There is about a year, the Anfaje, association that represents the windows, doors and facades sector in Portugal, warned for the fact that the €30 million allocation is “clearly insufficient to meet the needs to improve the comfort and energy performance of Portuguese homes”.
A National Monitoring Commission (CNA) of the PRR confirmed, in its latest report, a number of applications higher than the available funds, meaning that refers “the possibility of increasing the allocation, to be able to accommodate all eligible applications”.
Expresso contacted MAEN to find out whether it will carry out this reinforcement and whether it will issue a new notice, but received no response at the time of publication of this article. O cabinet He also did not answer whether Minister Maria da Graça Carvalho is keeping her promise to settle the program’s reimbursements by the end of the year.
