The Government, through the Ministry of Industry,
Trade and Tourism, allocates 43,358,034 euros to 36 industrial facilities of the
Basque Country for the compensation of the additional costs arising from the
Exceptional increase in natural gas prices during the year 2022.
The Ministry has published the proposal for a provisional resolution of this aid,
whereby the beneficiary autonomous communities will receive 450 million
Euros for 447 industrial facilities. This aid is part of the Framework
Temporary Crisis and Transition of the European Commission.
For the Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism, Héctor Gómez, “this aid
respond to the Government’s explicit commitment to gas-intensive companies,
so that sectors so important to the national economy can continue
With its productive activity.” In short, “they are a fundamental part of the
measures promoted by the Ministry to improve the competitiveness of the
energy-intensive industry and strengthening Spain's position in the new
Industrial Revolution,” the minister stressed.
The aid mechanism was established by Royal Decree-Law 20/2022, of 27 of
December, which mandated the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism the
articulation of a helpline in order to offset additional costs
Due to the exceptional increase in natural gas prices during 2022 for
industrial consumers or sectors intensive in natural gas consumption
(gas-intensive).
This mandate was fulfilled by Order ICT/744/2023, of 7 July, by the
regulating the bases of the aid line, subject to approval by the Commission
European.
Through the provisional proposal now published, 448 installations throughout
Industrial Spain will benefit from this program. In addition, the
100% of the planned budget of 450 million euros, which in turn will cover
more than 72% of the maximum possible aid to be allocated to applicant companies
Based on European regulations.
Legal entities governed by private law have been eligible for this aid;
whatever its legal form, excluding those belonging to the sector
public, owners of one or more industrial facilities and bringing together the
The following requirements:
a) Be validly constituted at the time of submitting the application.
b) Perform in each of the facilities for which you request the
grant one or more activities corresponding to the codes of the
National Classification of Economic Activities (CNAE) included in the
Annex to Royal Decree-Law 20/2022, of 27 December.
c) Have consumed more than 1.5 GWh per year of natural gas during,
Less, one of the two years prior to the announcement.
d) Acreditar que el cociente entre el consumo anual de gas natural y valor
Annual gross addition of each of the facilities operated by the
beneficiary for whom the aid is requested has been equal to or greater than 1.5
kWh/€ for at least one of the two years preceding that of the
announcement.
The provisional resolution can be consulted in the following link:
https://www.mincotur.gob.es/PortalAyudas/Gasintensivos/concesion/2023/Pagin
as/PropResProvisional.aspx
Other aid to the electro-intensive industry
On October 10, the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism published the
motion for an interim resolution of the Charge Clearing Mechanism
chargeable by the financing of the specific remuneration for renewables and
High Efficiency Cogeneration and Additional Financing in Non-EU Territories
peninsulars. The resolution includes an aid of 31 million euros for these
Electrointensive companies.
Imminent call for the PERTE of Decarbonization
Minister Héctor Gómez also appreciates that this aid coincides with the
“Imminent call for the first line of aid of the PERTE of
Decarbonization, which will be endowed with 1 billion euros, of the more than
3,100 that are expected of public investment”. This PERTE will serve to finance the
investments needed to advance energy efficiency in this sector,
that “the Government will accompany the urgent process of ecological transformation
Without this being a disruption.”
A public investment of 3.1 billion euros is foreseen with the PERTE that
it will mobilise up to EUR 11.8 billion of total investment;
incremento de la competitividad del sector en alrededor de un 10%; la creación
about 8,000 jobs; and a reduction in emissions that could be achieved
the 13 million tonnes of CO2 a year.