ENERGov heritage building renovation grant

• The project must be in Czechia and concern a public-sector building that is heritage-protected or architecturally valuable. Protected buildings include listed monuments and buildings within protected reserves, zones or buffer areas. SFŽP makes the final suitability assessment.
• Eligible applicants are Prague municipal districts; municipalities and their voluntary associations, including municipal communities; regions; public-law institutions; contributory organisations established by state or local authorities; state organisational units; public institutions and qualifying research organisations; universities, schools, educational facilities and school legal persons; foundations, endowment funds, institutes, associations and their branches, and public-benefit companies; churches, religious societies, their unions and registered legal entities; state enterprises, state organisations and the national enterprise; and companies or cooperatives owned entirely by a public entity. The research, school, nonprofit and church categories must meet the statutory definitions specified in the call.
• Heritage works need a positive binding opinion from the competent heritage authority. Where that authority does not issue an opinion for a protected-zone or buffer-area building, a National Heritage Institute consultation is required instead. Architecturally valuable buildings need Institute confirmation of that value and an assessment of the proposed works. A nonowner must have documented property rights lasting through the required operating period.
• The authorised energy specialist’s assessment must show that the basic renovation tier, Ap1, achieves at least 10% savings in nonrenewable primary energy and at least 10% in final energy consumption. Ap2 requires at least 30% primary-energy savings and 10% final-energy savings. The calculation covers heating, cooling, hot water, humidity control, ventilation and lighting. Supported changed building-envelope elements must meet the call's heat-transmission limit, no more than 0.8 times the reference value. Where heritage protection or technical constraints prevent this, the designer and energy specialist must justify the exception alongside the Institute's consultation.
• Housing blocks and single-family homes are excluded. New buildings, extensions and added storeys are excluded, with an exception for changes to completed buildings whose energy-reference floor area grows to no more than 1.4 times its original area. Solid fossil fuels cannot remain in use for heating or hot water after the project.
• Applicants cannot be insolvent, in liquidation, in arrears to public budgets or taxes, or an excluded company with a conflict of interest. They must also satisfy the applicable “undertaking in difficulty” test: depending on legal form, a loss of more than half of subscribed capital or accounting equity can fail the test, with an exception for small and medium-sized enterprises under three years old. Other tests cover insolvency, outstanding rescue or restructuring aid, and—for large enterprises—both a debt-to-equity ratio above 7.5 and a ratio of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation (EBITDA) to interest below 1 in each of the last two closed financial years.
• Heating systems must be hydraulically balanced, savings measured and an energy-management system operated. This means a responsible worker or contractor, an actively used system and at least monthly consumption records. Final assessment uses 12 consecutive months of measurements. Heat pumps require electricity and produced-heat/cooling metering, with at least hourly electricity readings; separate heat/cooling metering is unnecessary where the pump has integrated efficiency evaluation. A replaced heating source must also leave the building meeting the renovated-building energy-performance requirements under section 6(2)(d) of Decree 264/2020, demonstrated through the energy assessment.
• Envelope improvements in buildings educating children and young people trigger ventilation-design requirements. Heat-recovery ventilation needs at least 75% dry heat-recovery efficiency under ČSN EN 308; teaching and assembly rooms for children require infrared CO2 sensors to control ventilation. Envelope works also need a wildlife survey and assessment, with protected nesting or roosting sites retained, adapted or replaced where necessary.
• Solar panels, inverters and batteries need certificates from accredited independent certification bodies. PV minimum efficiencies are 21% for monocrystalline monofacial panels and for bifacial panels measured without rear-side gain, 20% for multicrystalline monofacial panels, and 12% for thin-film panels; special products have no fixed efficiency threshold. Inverters need 97% Euro efficiency. Panel warranties must guarantee linear performance for at least 25 years with no fall below 80% of original output and 12 years for the product; inverters need a 10-year replacement warranty. Batteries need a warranty retaining 80% capacity after 10 years or after delivering at least 2,400 times their nominal stored energy. PV normally goes on a registered building's roof or façade; justified technical inability to install sufficient power there permits existing paved areas immediately nearby. Supported usable battery capacity is 0.2–1 times the directly connected PV peak output, expressed in kWh per kWp; larger storage is supported proportionally only up to that maximum. Lead and NiCd batteries need closed-loop recycling, with recovery of at least 65% overall and 97% of lead, or 75% overall and 99% of cadmium respectively; other battery technologies do not need proof of subsequent disposal under this rule.
• At least 70% by weight of nonhazardous construction and demolition waste must be prepared for reuse, recycling or other material recovery. Naturally occurring soil and stones in waste category 17 05 04 are excluded from that calculation. Procurement rules, separate project accounting and Modernisation Fund publicity apply.
• Maintain the supported assets and energy management for five years. Projects must be implemented within five years of the ministerial award decision, with a justified extension possible through SFŽP.
• State-aid classification depends on actual use. The guidance covers municipalities, towns, regions, public-law institutions, state organisational units, noncommercial publicly established organisations such as schools, universities, public research institutions carrying out their main activities, and other eligible recipients that do not offer goods or services on a market. For these groups, projects can fall outside state aid in municipalities with at most 2,000 residents, or where incidental economic use or rental covers at most 20% of building area or capacity. Above the rental threshold, an exception applies to rentals at regulated prices to public services such as the police, employment offices, fire services and public libraries. Rentals to municipal service companies, housing-management companies, businesses providing paid services, health centres and hospitals can instead involve state aid.
• For public buildings not used for business, solar-electricity exports above 20% of annual generation trigger state aid regardless of municipality size. Church buildings used for pastoral activities, private schools financed mainly from public sources, and university or public research buildings used at least 80% for their main activities that do not offer goods or services on a market have specific routes outside state aid.
• A single application cannot combine different state-aid regimes. Where a project combines activities that fall within and outside state aid, the whole project falls under the applicable state-aid rules unless it is split into two applications. Splitting requires separate financial and indicator descriptions and prior consultation with SFŽP.

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• Closed early because the allocation was exhausted.[^c7]

The 2025 round is closed: SFŽP stopped accepting applications on 2 April 2026 because its allocation was exhausted. Check the official ENERGov page for any newly announced intake.

Applications for this round were submitted electronically through AIS SFŽP and processed in arrival order, subject to available funding. They required a sufficiently developed project study or design and budget, an authorised energy specialist's assessment showing primary-energy savings, the cumulative unit-cost budget in Excel, applicable heritage opinions and evidence of property rights where the applicant was not the owner.