1.3 Przemysł energochłonny – OZE

Applicant types

SME, Large company

Purpose

Deployment and investment

R&D relevance

0 of 3

Poland eligible

Yes

Country limit

Poland

Region

Any

Consortium

Unclear

Readiness level (TRL)

—

Topics

• Renewable energy
• Energy-intensive industry

Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 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 typePublished Priority Programme §7.4.

Entrepreneurs under the Polish Business Law holding legal title (ownership, perpetual usufruct or permanent management) to an EU ETS-covered installation; an applicant in liquidation or in bankruptcy proceedings is excluded.

Published programme-level beneficiary clause; 2026 intake amendments remain unknown.

Application restrictionHistorical first intake only.

The official same-name page identifies a “first intake” and states that technical ePUAP issues extended it through 10 May 2023. This historical intake does not establish 2026 opening or terms.

Historical 2023 source only, not current route evidence.

Application restrictionPublished Priority Programme §7.3(5)–(7).

The programme excludes investments completed before the application and costs financed from public domestic or foreign funds or other EU-budget sources; project durability is five years after completion.

Programme-level restrictions; call-level rules may add or clarify terms.

Application restrictionExact current 1.3 schedule route only.

Official 22 October 2026 schedule lists exact 1.3 route as continuous, planned 2 November 2026–30 April 2027 and marked as financed from the Modernisation Fund. Planned status does not confirm live opening.

Schedule dates are planned; live opening was not verified.

Application restrictionPublished Priority Programme §8, access criteria 1–12.

The programme’s access criteria require a timely application on the current required form, complete and correctly signed with all fields and attachments; an eligible beneficiary and programme-consistent project, implementation/spending period, support form and intensity; no completion before application (final acceptance protocol date controls); no relevant NFOŚiGW contract termination during the prior three years for applicant-attributable reasons, except mutual termination; and current public-law and civil-law obligations to NFOŚiGW. The project must preserve equal access irrespective of the listed protected characteristics. The source says the call notice may add detailed requirements.

This is the programme PDF’s access-criteria table; detailed requirements may appear in a call notice. Exact 2026 call amendments are unverified.

Application restrictionPublished Priority Programme §9(1).

The programme identifies a Feasibility Study with an active financial model as a mandatory application attachment, prepared using the GWD contextual instructions and NFOŚiGW Feasibility Study instruction.

Programme-level required attachment; future call documents may require more.

Eligible project scopePublished Priority Programme with matching title.

The programme objective is reducing emissions in energy-intensive Polish industrial sectors by increasing electricity generation from renewable energy sources.

Programme-level statement; applicability to the planned intake is unconfirmed.

Eligible project scopePublished Priority Programme §8 additional access criteria 14–16.

For the described renewable generation project, the programme’s additional access criteria require a reduction in emissions per unit of generated energy after completion; at least 80% of installation output used for own needs; and new equipment manufactured no earlier than 48 months before installation. Criteria 15–16 are verified on the applicant’s declaration.

Programme-specific access criteria for the stated renewable generation investment class; the current call may add further detail.

Eligible project scopePublished Priority Programme §7.5.

The programme covers construction or rebuilding of renewable electricity generation units with energy storage or connection to the internal, distribution or transmission grid. Storage must be integrated with a source built in parallel; at least 80% of generated electricity must be used for own needs; devices must be new and manufactured no earlier than 48 months before installation.

Programme-level scope; any call-level amendments/technical criteria are unknown.

Other conditionNFOŚiGW 2026 annual priority programme list.

The NFOŚiGW Priority Programmes list approved for 2026 includes “Przemysł energochłonny – OZE”. This confirms the programme title is listed for 2026 but does not establish intake-specific terms.

The annual priority list is programme-level context, separate from the exact 1.3 schedule row.

Other conditionExact planned 2026 route.

The current schedule row has no linked call notice or regulations. The retained same-name programme page concerns its first 2023 intake. Accordingly, the 2026 call-specific pool, final instrument, amended eligibility, call-specific rates and application documents are unverified.

Plan status is not live-open status; historical 2023 call terms are not carried forward.

Other conditionPublished programme-level loan premium.

The programme provides a premium up to 30% of disbursed preferential loan. Application requires ecological-effect parameters; premium is approved after implementation under NFOŚiGW conditions. For D ≥800 operating hours/year, the table gives Y=0.012×D+0.27, capped at 30% of the disbursed loan.

Repayment premium on preferential loan; not grant intensity or pool. New-call application remains unverified.

Other conditionPublished programme-wide budget; not call pool.

Published programme-wide budget is up to PLN 650,000 thousand, all for repayable forms. This is not a demonstrated allocation for the planned 2026 intake.

Programme-wide only; the 2026 call-level allocation remains unknown.

Other conditionPublished Priority Programme §7.3(4) and its footnote, physical page 3.

The programme PDF says investments treated as public aid use the environmental-aid rules it cites, but its own footnote states that the named 2015 regulation applied only through 30 June 2024 and that an amended or replacing regulation should apply after change/replacement. The current 2026 aid framework is not established by this retained programme PDF.

This is a source-version caveat; no current legal framework or aid classification is asserted.

Other conditionGeneral Eligible Cost Guidelines, §§3.3 and 4.2.

The general cost guide’s §3.3 lists ZFŚS write-offs among employer personnel-cost components, while §4.2 also lists ZFŚS write-offs among non-eligible cost categories. The guide does not reconcile these statements; eligibility of a ZFŚS write-off is unresolved.

Both clauses are from the same captured guide incorporated by programme §6(2). Do not treat either passage in isolation as resolving this conflict.

Eligible costGeneral Eligible Cost Guidelines §§3.5.2–3.5.5, as incorporated by programme §6(2).

The general guideline includes necessary construction works and related technical infrastructure/connections, fixed assets and permanently installed equipment/materials with delivery and installation/commissioning, directly related and necessary software/intangible assets, and other project-related external services and consumables. Fixed assets and intangibles generally must be entered in the beneficiary’s asset/intangible-asset records; the programme’s own caps and new-equipment conditions still apply.

General guide provisions apply only within the programme cost period, project necessity, documentation and agreement terms; programme-specific caps/conditions override.

Eligible costGeneral Eligible Cost Guidelines §§2.1–2.2 as incorporated by Priority Programme §6(2).

Under the incorporated NFOŚiGW guideline, eligible costs must be actually incurred and all listed conditions must be met together: legal compliance, necessity to achieve the physical/ecological result, within the programme cost period, incurred by the beneficiary or NFOŚiGW-authorized entity named in the agreement, consistent with the agreement and financial schedule, properly documented and identifiable in accounting records, and not excluded by the guide or programme.

The programme expressly incorporates the guide subject to its own exceptions and caps.

Eligible costGeneral Eligible Cost Guidelines §3.5.1 and Priority Programme §6(2)(c).

Land or real-estate acquisition is eligible under the general guide only if the acquired part is necessary and directly used for the project, value does not exceed market (or fair) value, value is evidenced by an authorized appraiser report, acquisition is in the application and financing agreement, and the seller/payee is external to the beneficiary. Programme caps land acquisition at 10% of eligible investment costs.

Subject to all conjunctive guide conditions and the programme-specific 10% cap.

Eligible costGeneral Eligible Cost Guidelines §3.3, incorporated by Priority Programme §6(2), with future-call applicability unverified.

The guide lists gross pay plus employer costs required by applicable law (including social-insurance contributions, Labour Fund, FGŚP, PPK and PPE expenditure; the guide has conflicting treatment of ZFŚS write-offs between §§3.3 and 4.2, recorded separately below) as personnel-cost components. Non-anniversary awards/bonuses may qualify only if provided by work/remuneration rules or other labor law, established at least six months before the application, and potentially available to all beneficiary employees under equal rules for project and other staff.

The employee’s project duties must be specified and the salary cost prorated to project tasks. These are cost-component rules, not pay rates or evidence of a planned hire. The guide’s ZFŚS write-off eligibility is internally conflicted by its separate general exclusion.

Eligible costProgramme implementation/spending period; distinct from the schedule intake window.

Programme implementation is stated for 2022–2030, with contract commitments through 31 December 2027 and spending through 31 December 2030. Eligible costs are stated for 1 January 2022–30 September 2030.

These are programme-PDF dates; unchanged applicability to the planned call is not established.

Eligible costPublished programme-level eligible cost provisions.

The programme incorporates the Eligible Cost Guidelines subject to caps: investment preparation ≤10%, investment management ≤10%, real-estate acquisition ≤10%, and intangible assets ≤20% of eligible investment costs.

Programme-specific caps; other costs are governed by the referenced guide subject to future call amendments.

Eligible costPublished programme-level VAT eligibility.

VAT is eligible only if finally borne by the beneficiary with no legal right to deduct input VAT in any part; otherwise it is not eligible even when the beneficiary voluntarily forgoes deduction.

Programme-level rule; check for call-specific amendments.

Funding intensity, maximumPublished programme-level loan intensity; instrument conflict remains unresolved.

100 percent of eligible project costs

Up to 100% of eligible costs as a loan; subject to the project-finance own-funds condition and future call rules.

Ineligible costGeneral Eligible Cost Guidelines §§3.3 and 4.2, incorporated by programme §6(2).

The guide excludes PFRON employer payments, benefits paid from ZFŚS, public-officer civil-liability insurance, jubilee awards and employee severance. Optional non-statutory contributions/fees are excluded unless they satisfy the same documented prior-rule, six-month introduction and equal all-staff coverage conditions stated in the guide. It also lists civil-contract remuneration for project work as excluded when the person is already paid from management costs or their employment duties include implementing the project.

Optional contributions have the stated cumulative exception; scope is limited to the guide’s express personnel exclusions.

Ineligible costGeneral Eligible Cost Guidelines §§4.1–4.2 as incorporated with programme-specific exceptions.

Selected guide exclusions include indirect costs unless the programme or agreement provides otherwise; application-form preparation and legal-advice costs; in-kind contributions; unrelated costs; debt interest and debt-servicing/late-payment charges; operating and maintenance costs such as inspections, spare/short-life parts, insurance, fuel and repairs; deductible VAT; and non-capital leasing charges such as lessor margin, interest, overhead, insurance, maintenance and operation. The programme’s specific treatment of investment-management costs and eligible-cost caps is separately stated above and does not make all indirect/operating costs eligible.

Selected, non-exhaustive exclusions from the general guideline; programme/contract exceptions may apply where the guide expressly permits them.

Grace period, maximumPublished programme-level loan grace period.

12 months

Optional principal grace period; measured last tranche to first principal installment, with maximum 12 months after completion.

Loan interest, minimumPublished programme-level preferential loan only.

1.5 percent per year; WIBOR 3M floor

Preferential rate is floating WIBOR 3M with 1.5% annual floor, not fixed. Market-rate loan uses an EC reference-rate formula and is not represented by this floor.

Loan principal, maximumLoan principal upper bound.

PLN 300,000,000

Programme-level upper bound; future-call terms may change it.

Loan principal, minimumLoan principal lower bound.

PLN 5,000,000

Programme-level lower bound; future-call terms may change it.

Loan term, maximumPublished programme-level maximum loan duration.

240 months

Measured from planned first tranche to planned last principal repayment.

Own contribution, minimumPublished programme-level own-contribution condition.

15 percent of eligible investment costs

Only project-finance investments; at least 15% must be contributed as paid-in cash share capital; listed borrowing sources do not count.

• Generic conditional personnel cost category for employees assigned identifiable project tasks; no specific occupation is named.

  Other role · Staff cost the grant can fund

  Employee remuneration may be eligible only where the position description or duties clearly identify project tasks; only the proportion of work on those tasks is eligible. Programme §6(2) incorporates the general guide subject to its express caps. This is a conditional cost category, not evidence of a planned hire; no job title, headcount, FTE, duration or pay is stated. Applicability of this exact guide version to the upcoming call is unverified.

• Official NFOŚiGW 2023 first-intake page

  gov.pl

• NFOŚiGW Guidelines for Eligible Costs

  gov.pl

• NFOŚiGW official schedule, state 22 October 2026

  gov.pl

• NFOŚiGW Priority Programmes for 2026, approved 22 January 2026

  gov.pl

• Priority Programme: Przemysł energochłonny – OZE

  gov.pl

Opens

2 Nov 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