📋 Tender Overview
In February of this year Eko Sklad the Slovenian Environmental Public Fund announced two public tenders for pilot projects of comprehensive renovation of multi-apartment buildings with the aim of testing new financial instruments that will enable a larger scale of comprehensive renovations of multi-apartment buildings in Slovenia.As part of the Life IP Care4Climate project and in partnership with the Joef Stefan Institute the Eco Fund developed two financial instruments and designed two public tenders which it announced on February 25 2022. for the needs of preparation Eko Sklad extended the application deadline until October 31 2022 publication in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia number 562022 on April 22 2022.In the public tender Credits against the reserve fund and non-refundable financial incentives for pilot projects of joint investments in the comprehensive renovation of older multi-apartment buildings condominium owners of older multi-apartment buildings are offered financing with a combination of credit against the reserve fund and grants it will not be possible to obtain only grants.The public call for non-refundable financial incentives for pilot projects of joint investments in the comprehensive renovation of older multi-apartment buildings co-financed by energy service companies offers financing through a combination of grants and funds from the energy contractor with payments for the renovation service according to invoices apartment owners of the contractor or the company for energy services they look for service providers on the market. The condition is the implementation of a comprehensive renovation of the building which can be carried out as a coordinated implementation of three or more measures of energy renovation of the building or as an almost zero-energy renovation .Buildings are eligible with more than 8 parts and more than 8 different condominium owners where it must be more than half of the building area in residential use and more than half of all condominium owners are natural persons citizens.Project documentation is mandatory and supervision is ensured during execution as stipulated in the Construction Act. The costs of creating project documentation and the costs of supervision are recognized investment costs .If a building permit must be obtained for a complete renovation this must be attached to the application for public tender. An application for a public tender can be submitted by the administrator or other authorized persons.Estimated amount of the non-refundable financial incentiveup to 40 of recognized investment costs for comprehensive renovation with coordinated implementation of three or more energy renovation measures of the building orup to 50 of recognized investment costs for an almost zero-energy renovation .If earthquake strengthening of the building is also carried out as part of the comprehensive renovation which is desirable and properly evaluated an additional non-refundable financial incentive is granted in the amount of up to 50 of the related costs but no more than 225 euros per m2 of the net heated area of the building before renovation.The applications will be classified according to the number of points received in accordance with the criteria of the public tender whereby the applications with the highest number of points will be eligible for incentives within the framework of the available funds. If funds remain available after the award of the incentive for the highest-rated application the incentive in the amount of the remaining funds will be offered to the eligible persons with the next highest-rated application until the funds are used up. The amount of the announced grants for each public tender is 500000 euros and 1500000 euros for refundable funds - a credit against the reserve fund.The existing public appeals of the Eco Fund intended for multi-apartment buildings remain open as the funds in the new public tenders will only be sufficient for a few pilot projects but the incentive for them will be much higher.
