1.4 Energia dla wsi

Applicant types

SME, Large company, Farmer, Other

Purpose

Energy, environment, infrastructure

R&D relevance

1 of 3

Poland eligible

Yes

Country limit

Poland; rural and rural-urban municipalities

Region

Any

Consortium

Single applicant

Readiness level (TRL)

—

Per project

€4.7M

Topics

• Rural renewable energy
• Solar and wind power
• Hydropower
• Agricultural biogas
• Integrated energy storage

Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 24 Oct 2026

Typed facts extracted from the source documents by Scindu's grant-data review. Each value keeps its own conditions. Unknown means unstated, not zero or unlimited.

Applicant restriction

A forming cooperative must be organised under the cooperative or farmers-cooperative law, have renewable-electricity/biogas/heat generation and balancing for its own cooperative and members as its activity, and intend to apply for entry in the statutory register. A cooperative member applying as beneficiary must be an entrepreneur.

Applicant type

Eligible beneficiaries are (1) an energy cooperative or its member who is an entrepreneur; (2) a forming energy cooperative meeting the statutory description and intending to seek listing in the energy-cooperative register; and (3) a farmer, including a natural person, unincorporated entity or legal person, who has conducted agricultural activity for at least 12 months and operates a tax-defined farm in farmstead development or a special branch of agricultural production.

Application restriction

For the same investment and same support form, an applicant may submit only one application in the round; a later duplicate is not considered. The same investment cannot be funded under another NFOŚiGW priority programme.

Application restriction

Applications are submitted exclusively electronically through GWD, using a qualified/equivalent electronic signature or trusted profile; the submission time is when GWD sends the application to the NFOŚiGW ePUAP or e-Delivery mailbox.

Application restriction

The exact 2026 third round was announced for 1 October 2026–31 January 2027. The 22 October schedule still marks it as ongoing, but NFOŚiGW separately published a 2 October notice that the PLN 400 million third-round allocation was exhausted. The regulations state that exhausted allocation results in an information about inability to submit, while over-allocation applications are assessed only if the round budget is increased. The current operational submission status is unresolved; neither the stale schedule nor budget-exhaustion notice alone proves whether the round reopened or GWD is accepting submissions.

Eligible project scope

For an energy cooperative, its entrepreneur member or an eligible forming cooperative, PV, wind, hydro and biogas installations have electrical capacity above 10 kW and no more than 10 MW; the biogas CHP condition also sets thermal capacity above 30 kW and no more than 30 MW.

Eligible project scope

For a farmer, hydroelectric plants and agricultural-biogas high-efficiency cogeneration installations must have electrical capacity above 10 kW and no more than 1 MW; agricultural-biogas installations also have thermal capacity above 30 kW and no more than 3 MW.

Eligible project scope

For a farmer, a photovoltaic or wind installation must have electrical capacity above 50 kW and no more than 1 MW. PV/wind investments on agricultural land classified as arable land classes I–IV are excluded by the programme wording.

Eligible project scope

An energy-storage installation is an eligible project element only when integrated with one of the specified renewable installations in programme sections 7.5.1–7.5.3; the programme calls this element optional.

Eligible project scope

The programme supports renewable-energy installations in rural and rural-urban municipalities. The third-round notice lists farmers, existing energy cooperatives or their entrepreneur members, and eligible forming cooperatives; the call is not a general household grant.

Other condition

Programme costs may be eligible when incurred from 1 January 2022 through 30 September 2030, subject to the current third-round terms and cost guidelines.

Other condition

A forming cooperative beneficiary must have its data entered in the statutory cooperative register within six months after the installation is transferred for use; the programme requires repayment if it does not.

Other condition

The priority programme incorporates NFOŚiGW’s cost guidelines. The retained 22 October schedule labels this route continuous; under the guideline’s version rule, the version in force on each filing date applies unless NFOŚiGW’s Board decides otherwise. This packet retains the version linked from NFOŚiGW’s official materials page on 23 October 2026, but no archived filing-date copy or separate Board decision was found.

Other condition

Where the funding constitutes public aid, the investment must not have started before the application date; the programme defines start to include construction works, the first legally binding equipment order, or any commitment making the investment irreversible.

Other condition

For eligible hydro/biogas grant projects, the programme permits an increase of up to 20 percentage points for micro and small enterprises and up to 10 percentage points for medium-sized enterprises.

Other condition

The route does not state a headcount, hiring obligation, named beneficiary role, salary rate or payroll allowance. The incorporated general guideline conditionally permits direct project-staff costs as described in the separate personnel claim; this is not a route-specific hiring entitlement or amount.

Other condition

A feasibility study and active financial model are mandatory application attachments, except for micro-installations; the attachment list also calls for proof of agricultural-tax status, financial records, land rights/consents, funding sources and technical/energy documentation as applicable.

Other condition

The guideline text appears internally inconsistent on ZFŚS-related amounts: §3.3 lists ZFŚS employer contributions as a potentially eligible personnel component, while §4.2 lists ZFŚS benefits and deductions as noneligible. This review leaves that component unresolved and asserts no ZFŚS amount as eligible.

Project duration, minimum

60 months after completion

Minimum project durability period after implementation; not the loan tenor.

Call allocation

PLN 3,000,000,000

Whole programme budget through the stated implementation period, not the third-round allocation or an individual project amount.

Call allocation

PLN 260,000,000

Round-wide non-repayable pool; separate from the PLN 140m loan pool and individual grant cap.

Call allocation

PLN 140,000,000

Round-wide repayable pool; separate from the PLN 260m grant pool and individual loan cap.

Call allocation

PLN 400,000,000

Round-wide pool across grant and loan forms; this is not a project award ceiling. NFOŚiGW reported this pool exhausted on 2 October 2026.

Eligible cost

Guideline examples that may be eligible when they are necessary, actually incurred in-period, paid by the beneficiary or approved paying entity, agreed/documented and not excluded include required project-preparation documents/permits, project management, directly necessary permanently installed equipment entered in the beneficiary’s asset register, and other project-related external services or consumables. The programme’s own scope and independent preparation/management caps apply; examples are not blanket approval of every expense in those categories.

Eligible cost

Renewable generation installations specified in programme sections 7.5.1–7.5.3 and integrated storage under 7.5.4 are within project scope (storage is optional). Costs must fall within a guideline category and meet all cumulative legality, necessity, timing, payer, agreement, documentation and non-exclusion conditions; programme-specific restrictions and the stated category caps control. Illustrative route-relevant categories and personnel rules are separately stated below.

Eligible cost

General guidelines may allow employees’ gross pay and employer costs, proportionate to their project work, only where the tasks are explicitly identified in job descriptions/duties; the programme’s 10% project-management-cost cap also applies where costs fall in that programme category. Awards/bonuses have cumulative advance-rule, six-month pre-application and equal-coverage requirements. This does not identify positions or set pay amounts for this call.

Eligible cost limit

20 percent of eligible investment costs

Maximum eligible-cost share for intangible and legal assets; each ceiling is independent, not an award intensity or full project cost cap. Detailed category definitions are incorporated from NFOŚiGW cost guidelines.

Eligible cost limit

10 percent of eligible investment costs

Maximum eligible-cost share for investment management costs; each ceiling is independent, not an award intensity or full project cost cap. Detailed category definitions are incorporated from NFOŚiGW cost guidelines.

Eligible cost limit

10 percent of eligible investment costs

Maximum eligible-cost share for investment preparation costs; each ceiling is independent, not an award intensity or full project cost cap. Detailed category definitions are incorporated from NFOŚiGW cost guidelines.

Eligible cost limit

10 percent of eligible investment costs

Maximum eligible-cost share for property-acquisition costs; each ceiling is independent, not an award intensity or full project cost cap. Detailed category definitions are incorporated from NFOŚiGW cost guidelines.

Eligible cost limit

50 storage eligible costs as a percent of eligible energy-source costs

Maximum eligible storage-cost share relative to the source installation’s eligible costs, under the programme’s PV/wind storage row.

Funding intensity, maximum

45 eligible project costs

Maximum base grant intensity for hydroelectric and qualifying biogas CHP installations. Programme permits the stated SME percentage-point increases; applicable public-aid limits can constrain the amount. This is not a fixed individual award amount.

Funding intensity, maximum

100 eligible installation costs

Loan intensity maximum for the specified eligible installations; still subject to the per-project PLN 25m loan cap, applicable installation-power ranges and lending assessment.

Funding intensity, maximum

20 eligible storage costs

Only the programme table’s integrated storage connected to the specified PV/wind installation; separate from the generation installation support.

Ineligible cost

The general default excludes indirect organisational overhead unless the programme/contract says otherwise, costs of preparing the grant application, legal-advice fees and debt interest/servicing or late-payment charges. The priority programme and support-form-specific terms remain controlling; this does not classify the programme’s loan interest under these cost rules.

Ineligible cost

The guidelines exclude civil-law contract pay for project tasks when the person’s remuneration is funded under management costs and/or their employment duties already cover implementation or delivery tasks; the general public-funding double-financing prohibition also applies.

Ineligible cost

Funding is not granted for investment costs already financed from public national or foreign funds or other EU budget funds.

Ineligible cost

VAT that the beneficiary can legally deduct is not eligible, even if the beneficiary chooses not to recover it. VAT is eligible only when ultimately borne and not legally deductible in any part.

Grace period, maximum

12 months after investment completion

Maximum principal repayment grace period; measured from the last loan disbursement to first principal repayment and capped at 12 months after completion.

Loan interest, minimum

1.5 annual interest rate

Preferential-rate option is WIBOR 3M plus 50 basis points, with an annual minimum of 1.5%; market-rate loan uses a separate reference-rate method.

Loan principal, maximum

PLN 25,000,000

Maximum principal amount; remains subject to the eligible-project funding intensity and credit assessment.

Loan term, maximum

180 months

Maximum loan financing term, counted from planned first disbursement to planned repayment of the final principal instalment.

Own contribution, minimum

15 cash share capital as a percent of eligible investment costs

Only investments delivered under project-finance structure; own funds exclude bank loans, bond issuance, owner loans and other borrowed funds.

Project funding, maximum

PLN 20,000,000

Maximum non-repayable support per project, subject to project-type intensity and the applicable state-aid intensity rules.

• Other role

  Staff cost the grant can fund

  Conditional generic personnel-cost category under the NFOŚiGW cost guidelines applicable on the application filing date, unless NFOŚiGW decides otherwise. The job description/duties must explicitly identify project tasks and cost is apportioned by the employee’s project-task share. Potential components are gross pay and employer costs under applicable law. This does not establish a particular hire, salary, headcount, or rate. Programme-specific project management is separately capped at 10% of eligible investment costs; this role row does not bypass that cap.

• NFOŚiGW notice dated 2 October 2026 that third-round allocation was exhausted

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• Official call notice, Energia dla Wsi third round 2026

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• Regulations of the third Energia dla Wsi application round

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• Official NFOŚiGW materials page linking the P.1.1-13 cost-eligibility guidelines

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• NFOŚiGW P.1.1-13 Wytyczne w zakresie kosztów kwalifikowanych (current attachment linked by official materials page)

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• NFOŚiGW schedule as of 22 October 2026

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• NFOŚiGW 2026 Energia dla Wsi third-round call page

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• Operative Energia dla Wsi priority programme

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• Required attachments list for Energia dla Wsi third round

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Opens

1 Oct 2026

Provider

NFOŚiGW · Transformacja energetyczna

Source

gov.pl

Checked

24 Oct 2026

Review status

Partial review

Independent QA

No published hold

Reviewed

23 Oct 2026