Ecologiepremie+
Grants for businesses investing in listed environmental technologies in Flanders, including geothermal heating and solar hot-water systems.
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Ecologiepremie+ helps pay for technologies on VLAIO’s eligible-technology list. Climate-related options include geothermal heating and new solar thermal systems for space heating, hot water or industrial processes. The programme also covers other environmental technologies; each has its own technical conditions and eligible company sizes.
The grant is calculated on the business-use cost of the equipment components specified in the list, using the net percentage for your technology and company size. It does not cover the whole project automatically. Total Ecologiepremie+ support is limited to €1 million per company over three years, counted from submission of your first successful application.
You must invest in all listed essential components unless VLAIO agrees an exception beforehand. Installation is eligible only where expressly listed. Internal wages, running costs, studies, inspections, demolition and construction of buildings are excluded. Eligible investment must be recorded as an asset and depreciated over at least three years.
Eligibility
Small, medium-sized and large businesses can apply, subject to the technology’s restrictions. You need an operating establishment in Flanders registered in the Belgian business register (KBO). If you do not have one when applying, it must exist when you carry out the investment. Eligible legal forms include self-employed individuals, companies with legal personality and European economic interest groupings; a maatschap without legal personality and nonprofit associations (vzw’s) are excluded.
- The technology must be on the list applicable when you submit. Investments required by law, energy obligations or environmental-permit conditions are excluded.
- If your establishments fall within the Flemish energy-policy agreement scheme (EBO), all establishments in scope must join and comply with those agreements.
- Use and operate the investment for business purposes and retain it for at least five years after completion. Equipment bought only to rent out is excluded. Your business must comply with applicable Flemish rules throughout that period.
- Businesses in financial difficulty under EU rules, in dissolution, cessation, bankruptcy, liquidation or insolvency proceedings, or subject to EU recovery proceedings for unlawful aid cannot apply.
- Businesses with at least 50% public ownership or voting rights are excluded, except privately financed investments in heat networks, shore power, energy sharing and industrial water treatment.
- Investments used for primary farming, fishing or aquaculture are excluded. A business in those sectors may qualify for a separate secondary activity, such as a farm shop.
- Do not request other public support for the same eligible investment costs. This includes the investment tax deduction and Ecoboost loan, as well as other grants.
An eligible company can invest and operate at another company’s establishment for the benefit of that one company only. Both must satisfy the eligibility conditions, and the applicant must operate the investment for at least five years after completion.
A property-holding company in the same group can carry out the investment. A direct or indirect holding of at least 25% must link the companies, or the same person or entity must hold at least 25% in each. The operating company applies, receives the grant and operates the assets for five years; the property company records and depreciates the assets and makes them available for that period.
How to apply
- Κατάσταση
- Ανοιχτό συνεχώς
Match your investment to the official technology list, then use the pink “Aanvragen” button on VLAIO’s Ecologiepremie+ page to enter e-loketondernemers. The legal representative can sign in with eID or itsme; another person needs delegated access. Confirm your company size using the EU small-business definition, including linked and partner businesses.
Provide the technology number, a quotation or order form breaking down component costs excluding VAT, the company-size calculation and the requested technical information. Finish the online application within 15 days of starting it or it will be cancelled. If VLAIO requests further information after submission, supply it within 20 working days.
The earliest permitted start is the first day of the month after the month you submit. The start can be triggered by the first engineering or purchase invoice, the deed for eligible property or signing a finance lease; approval does not remove this timing rule. Start within 12 months of the award decision and complete within three years. A ministerial extension of the start deadline is possible with thorough justification.
Request payments online: 30% of the grant after 30% of the investment is realised, another 30% after 60%, and the final 40% after completion and checks. Request the final payment within 12 months of completion, determined by the last invoice, eligible property deed or last finance-lease signature. Supply invoices, evidence of payment and asset accounting. Payment requires no outstanding undisputed debt to VLAIO or the Fonds voor Innoveren en Ondernemen; lower eligible costs reduce the grant, while higher costs do not increase the award.