These are incentives aimed at reducing energy consumption and climate-changing gas emissions of companies and production areas including the installation of systems for the production of energy from renewable sources for own consumption (action by Programme Agreement 4.2.1).

The aid to be granted relates to the following examples of activities to carry out:

• energy saving or efficiency actions, with the exception of improvement actions which companies are required to take in any case to comply with Community rules;
• use of high-efficiency cogeneration also for the purpose of district heating and cooling of users in the vicinity of the site of production;
• production of energy from renewable sources by means of production plants with a nominal capacity not exceeding 1 megawatts (meaning electrical, if it is an electricity-only or cogeneration plant, or a thermal/refrigeration plant in the presence of an installation of thermal/cooling energy production).

The implementation indicator chosen for this OS, “Number of enterprises receiving support", allows the scope of actions to be monitored on the basis of the following criteria regional production system.

The ROP excludes the financing of activities based on fossil fuels.

The types of beneficiaries are: micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, individual and/or associated.