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Schimmel Engineering

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Schimmel Engineering Disciplines
With our disciplines we help in central Netherlands comfortable at home and at work. With sustainable heating, cooling and ventilation. We are a total partner for sustainability in large-scale new construction projects. We are partners in geothermal drilling. And we are ready with advice, guidance and installation for a complete passive house.

SOLUTE Energy Technology

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Solar Panels
Generate your own electricity
With PV panels or solar panels you generate your own electricity. On sunny as well as on cloudy days, you save on your electricity bill. The payback period of an investment in a solar power system is getting shorter and shorter. This is because the panels have become cheaper and better: they deliver a higher yield and due to global competition from solar cell manufacturers, the purchase price is lower. Moreover, you get the VAT back from the tax authorities and increase solar panels the value of your home.

INSTALLGREEN BV

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About us
At InstallGreen, we are convinced that sustainability and comfort need not be mutually exclusive. On the contrary, we think they can actually reinforce each other. That is why we have specialized in providing the best solutions for solar panels, charging stations, heat pumps and air conditioners, which you can use to make your home or business more sustainable.

Who are we?
We are a young and dynamic company based in Nootdorp, with a great passion for renewable energy and green technology. We have been active since 2021 and we have already installed many individuals and companies helped them reduce their energy consumption, increase their living comfort and reduce their ecological impact.

Preservation program for national monuments

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In this nationwide relief program, homeowners of national monuments not only receive 50% discounts on preservation advice, they also receive free advice and guidance towards the actual implementation of preservation measures. Examples include counter-reading quotes from contractors or accompanying them to preliminary consultations with the municipality.

Amount

You can get 50% discounted consulting fees, up to a maximum of €1,750 (excluding VAT) for a feasibility study or customized advice. You can then be reimbursed for further advice and guidance towards implementation 100% up to a maximum of €2,500.

Main conditions

  • The property is a national monument
  • The sustainability consultation is performed and billed by one of the nine selected DuMo consultants contracted for the de-care program (the discount is settled by them on the invoice)
  • You have concrete plans to take sustainability measures in your own monument, and within 6 months after completion of the unburdening process you apply to the municipality for a permit to actually implement the intended measures (or have them implemented)

Grant sustainability advice for monuments

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A sustainability recommendation from a Sustainable Monuments (DuMo) consultant will ensure that your monument is made more sustainable with an eye toward its monumental values. The Restoration Fund provides grants up to 50% on the cost of the advice.

Amount

You can be reimbursed 50% of the advisory costs, with a maximum of € 500.00 for a Quickscan and a maximum of € 1,000.00 for a Feasibility Study or Customized Advice.

Main conditions

  • The property is a monument
  • The sustainability consulting was performed and billed by a DuMo consultant where the
    Restoration Fund has a partnership with. The website of the provider of this grant will tell you which DuMo advisors are participating in this promotion.
  • The sustainability opinion is not older than three months

Sustainability Loan Laarbeek

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Are you planning to make your home more energy efficient? You may be able to take advantage of the sustainability loan. This allows you to borrow money to invest in an energy-efficient home.

How you arrange it

You can apply for a loan when you have an offer for the energy-saving measures you want to take. You can apply via this application form. If your application is approved, you will receive an allocation letter. With this allocation letter, you will apply for your loan within 8 weeks via www.svn.nl.

What you need to know

The sustainability loan allows homeowners to invest in energy-saving measures. For example, facade, roof or floor insulation, or a solar water heater or heat pump. This way you use more sustainable energy sources, reduce your energy costs and increase living comfort. In addition, it reduces CO2 emissions in the municipality.

You can use the loan for:

  • Customized advice on measures you can take
  • Heat pump
  • Solar water heater
  • Facade insulation (cavity wall insulation)
  • Roof insulation
  • Green roofs/sedum roofs
  • Floor/ bottom insulation
  • Window insulation (high-efficiency glass)
  • Heat recovery installation
  • Led Lighting
  • DC fan
  • DC pump
  • Hybrid boiler
  • Micro cogeneration
  • Doors and wall panels insulation
  • Demand-driven ventilation
  • Water-side adjustment of the central heating system

Prerequisites:

  • Only owner-occupiers (including CoEs) and tenants can apply for loans.
  • Applying for a loan is possible from May 19, 2020 until the budget runs out. Applicants will be notified in time when the budget runs out.
  • The minimum amount you can borrow is € 2,500. The maximum amount is €10,000.
  • The term of the loan is 15 years. For amounts under €7,500, it is 10 years.
  • The loan is a construction deposit.
  • We want to avoid "stacking" loans. Therefore, the loan cannot be used together with the starter loan.
  • Early redemption can be done penalty-free from €250.
  • SVn (Stimuleringsfonds Volkshuisvesting Nederlandse gemeenten) sets the interest rate and further conditions. SVn tests the loans together with the municipality and takes care of the practical implementation for us.

Solar Panels

Solar Panels are not covered by the sustainability loan.

Details

Detailed information about the loan can be found in the Laarbeek Sustainability Loan Regulation 2020

Energy conservation grant Soest

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Would you like to know what subsidies are available, for example, for insulating your home or buying solar panels? At the Sustainable Building Counter you will find all the information on what subsidies are available for energy savings.

You can also get advice there if you want to get rid of natural gas. Like the five-step plan for a natural gas-free home. Saving energy is the first step of the five. The Sustainable Building Counter is the energy desk of the municipality of Soest.

Energy Coach

Also, for independent advice from a fellow villager, please visit the Sustainable Building Counter. Request an energy scan, heat scan or energy coach. Resident initiative Energie Actief Soest will then make an appointment with you.

Free energy coach Deventer

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Do you want to take energy-saving measures, lower your energy bills, stop cold feet or drafts in your home, contribute to a cleaner environment but don't know exactly where to start? Then the energy coaches of Deventer Energie are the solution for you!

There are as many as 20 energy coaches ready to go and help you! The energy coach will come to your home and work with you to see what you can do to improve your home, save energy or use renewable energy. Whether you live in a rental property or a monument, a farmhouse or a row house: the team of energy coaches has the necessary knowledge!

Little Sustainability Deventer grant

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Do you want to work with a group of homeowners to save energy in your home? Perhaps you can take advantage of the Small Sustainability Subsidy Scheme. This way you reduce energy costs and help the climate. This subsidy is intended for practical support of initiatives such as advice, making plans together for sustainability and/or information actions.

Available subsidy

The subsidy scheme continues through 2024 until the subsidy pot runs out. The grant ceiling in 2024 is €30,450. Applications are processed in order of receipt of a complete application.

For practical support and advice

The grant is for the orientation phase and helps explore opportunities. Consider:

  • Practical support for joint information meetings and planning, such as holding meetings (room rental, coffee/tea) and creating information materials (invitations, leaflet);
  • Seek advice on what energy measures can be taken (technical/content advice);
  • Seek advice on how it can be addressed and realized (financial/organizational advice).

Examples of activities for which you can apply for a grant:

  • Inform about insulation measures to show homeowners what you can do about insulation, how to organize and finance it together;
  • Information meeting on solar panels and how to make the choices together and have solar panels installed;
  • Joint neighborhood plan for taking energy measures with informational materials and meetings;
  • Joint exploration of small-scale collective solutions for a shared heat pump when replacing gas-fired central heating boilers.

 

SME Sustainability Grant Scheme (SVM).

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The SME Sustainability Grant Scheme (SVM) helps you as an SME entrepreneur to make your business more sustainable. With this subsidy, you receive compensation for hiring a consultant for tailored energy advice and its implementation.

Amount of subsidy and duration

Start date: Saturday, April 1, 2023 - 09:00 (CET)

End date: Saturday, September 30, 2023 - 17:00 (CET)

Grant amount (if conditions are met):
The subsidy amount for sustainability advice is minimum € 400 and maximum € 750. The maximum subsidy amount is € 2,500 for advice and support together.

Total budget: €14,400,000

The SME Sustainability Grant Scheme (SVM) helps you as an SME entrepreneur to make your business more sustainable. With this subsidy, you receive compensation for hiring a consultant for tailored energy advice and its implementation.

For whom.

This grant is for:

  • SMEs up to 250 employees (FTEs) and annual sales of up to €50 million;
  • Who own one or more business premises or rent business premises (or space therein);
  • and not under the legal energy savings obligation fall. This means that your premises per year will therefore not exceed 25,000 m3 natural gas (equivalent) and 50,000 kWh of electricity consumed.

Did you apply for this subsidy in 2021 or in 2022 for a commercial building? If so, you will not receive another grant for that commercial building in 2023.

What do you get a grant for?

You will be reimbursed for 80% of the cost of:

  • An energy recommendation for making your premises and/or operations more sustainable;
  • support for the implementation of the energy-saving and sustainability measures in this opinion.

The energy advice deals with potential energy and CO2-saving measures in your business premises and operations. The investments required for this are also included in the advice.

You will receive a grant for costs incurred from April 1, 2023 and applied for by 5 p.m. on September 30, 2023.

Examples

Examples of business premises sustainability measures are:

Examples of measures in operations:

  • purchase of electric vans
  • energy-efficient kitchen appliances
  • ICT equipment

Who gives you advice and support?

You have the advice drawn up by an energy consultant from outside your company. He or she investigates and advises you about the sustainability measures and the investments required for this. The energy advice must cover all aspects of the building and business operations. For example, does advice focus only on solar panels or LED lighting? Then it is not complete energy advice and you will not receive a subsidy.

After issuing the advice, your energy advisor can also help you implement the measures from the advice. The following support activities will then also be reimbursed to you:

  • Requesting and reviewing one or more quotes
  • applying for grants or funding opportunities
  • drafting and issuing orders
  • applying for the SME Sustainability Grant (only if any of the above activities have also been carried out)

Note!
There are self-appointed consultants operating who will tell you that they are working on our (RFO) behalf, that the SVM will become mandatory next year, or who will offer you the SVM for free. This is false in all these cases. Do not be persuaded by them.

How much subsidy will you receive?

The subsidy amount for sustainability advice is minimum € 400 and maximum € 750. The maximum subsidy amount for advice and support together is € 2,500.

You apply for a maximum of one grant for each business premises for advice and one for support. This can be done in one application or in 2 separate applications. That is up to you.

What expenses will you be reimbursed for?

Only the costs of advice and support from the energy advisor will be reimbursed. The investments in the measures themselves are not covered by this subsidy. Therefore, you will not be reimbursed for the purchase and installation costs of, for example, LED lighting or solar panels. You may be able to use other subsidies for this:

Terms as of April 1, 2023

To improve the quality of advice and support for you as a business owner, we have updated the scheme. This is new in 2023:

  • You sign the 'Declaration Subsidy for Sustainability in SMEs' in which we inform you about the conditions. This states, among other things, that you know you are not obliged to have an energy advice drawn up.
  • The energy consultant must have at least 2 years of experience advising SME entrepreneurs on energy conservation and sustainability. The advisor can demonstrate this.
  • You attach the annual statement from your energy supplier to your application.
  • We have tightened the requirements for the energy balance that the energy consultant prepares for you.
  • You can apply for the grant for consulting and the grant for support separately. Are you applying for the grant for advice and the grant for support separately? Then you must commission a measure per application. In the case of advice this can be a simple measure. In the case of support, it concerns the measure for which you have received support.

View all terms and conditions for the SVM

How does the grant work?

  1. Find an energy consultant that fits your business.
  2. Get customized energy advice for your business.
  3. From the advice, choose one or more sustainability measure(s) to implement.
  4. If necessary, ask the energy advisor to also support you in implementing one or more measures from the advice.
  5. Have your advisor apply for the grant in our digital application environment. You may also do this yourself.

Glossary of terms SVM

Preparing your application

  • You provide the requested data. Your energy consultant prepares the advice and you commission one of the measures from the advice. At that point, you can apply for the subsidy for the advice.
  • You ask your advisor for support in implementing one of the measures in the advice. Your advisor will help you, for example, with requesting and evaluating offers. After commissioning the measure, you can also apply for a subsidy for support.
  • You may also apply for the grant for advice and the grant for support all at once. Then you only need to commission the measure for which you have received support.

Request

You can apply for this grant from April 1, 9 a.m. to September 30, 2023, 5 p.m.

You log in with eRecognition. For your application, you need at least level 2+ with authorization RFO services at level eH2+.

After your request

  • We process grant applications in order of receipt until the budget runs out. You can find the budget still available on this page.
  • You will receive a decision on your application within 8 weeks.

Discount voucher energy advice Assen

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Amount

The coupon has a value of €250.

Main conditions

  • You occupy your own home in the municipality of Assen
  • Your home was built before 1995
  • You have not previously had an energy survey done for this property
  • Your home is not part of an O.A.E.
  • You have the advice carried out by one of the designated consultants

For more information, visit the website of the provider of this grant.