€1.5 billion will be allocated to the new Italian aid scheme under the European Clean Industrial Deal Plan.

The measure will finance strategic investments for the production of clean technologies and related supply chains, as well as for the production of critical raw materials.

Non-repayable grants are envisaged for both SMEs and large enterprises, with aid intensities ranging from 15% to 35% depending on company size.

The sectors covered by the decree include: solar, wind, batteries and energy storage, heat pumps, hydrogen, biogas and biomethane, carbon capture and storage technologies, electricity grids, nuclear fission energy, sustainable alternative fuel technologies, hydropower technologies, other renewable energy technologies, energy efficiency technologies related to the energy system, renewable fuels of non-biological origin, biotechnology solutions for climate and energy, transformative industrial technologies for decarbonisation, CO₂ transport and utilisation technologies, wind and electric propulsion technologies for transport, and other nuclear technologies.

The publication of the implementing call for proposals is now awaited.