Government approves setting up of CZK 54 billion programme aimed at helping households save energy

The government has approved a new CZK 54 billion programme of the EU’s Modernisation Fund called HOUSEnerg, which is aimed at supporting measures to save energy in family homes and flats across Czechia, acting Environment Minister Marian Jurečka said on Wednesday.

The change was already approved in October by the European Investment Bank. The money for the programme has already been allocated, the Czech News Agency reports.

In practice, HOUSEnerg is supposed to cover the already operating New Green Savings Programme of the State Environmental Fund of the Czech Republic. Subsidies such as these are used to help people fund the insulating of their houses, photovoltaics, heat pump or biomass boiler purchases.