The Government of the Azores wants to simplify incentive system for energy production from renewable sources (PROENERGIA) to extend “its action among companies and families.”
The information was provided today by the Regional Secretary for the Environment and the Sea at the end of an audience with the Economy Commission of the Legislative Assembly, held via videoconference from the village of Madalena on Pico Island.
According to Álamo Meneses, the assessment of the PROENERGIA programme, an incentive system which was created in 2006 summer with the purpose of optimising the use of renewable energies in the Azores, recommends that this programme should now be “simplified.” 
The PROENERGIA programme “has been a success,” already counting upon half a thousand beneficiaries, but we want to “further improve its action among companies and families,” stated the Regional Secretary.
In order to accomplish this goal, Álamo Meneses counts upon the creation of “integrated technical and financial solutions, through which promoters may pay an instalment instead of being obliged to make an initial investment in the purchase and installation of energy equipments. 
The proposed amendments to PROENERGIA, assessed today in parliamentary commission, also aim to reduce the minimum investment required to companies to 1000 Euros, the change of maximum limit of the awarded support and the removal of the removal of the sale limit of the surplus to the public network, in the case of electricity production.
The projects primarily intended for self-consumption promoted by small and medium companies, cooperatives, non-profitable associations, individuals and condominiums may benefit from a financial support under this programme. 
Furthermore, the projects applying for the programme should involve investments in the exploitation of renewable energy resources for micro-production of electric and heat energy, using endogenous resources or investments in the use of the solar thermal resource as well as of heat pumps for hot water production.