Abbreviated form of legal source
- Electricity Act 1998
- Environmental Tax Act
Description of the process
The Energy Investment Allowance (EIA), the Environmental Investment Allowance (MIA) and the Random Depreciation of Environmental Investments Scheme (VAMIL) offer tax advantages for investments in renewable energy production and energy saving installations or measures.
The process is as follows:
- A company invests in a renewable energy production and energy saving installation or measure
- He checks whether the installation or measure is included in the Environment List or the Energy List.
- If it is, he registers the installation or measure and applies for EIA, MIA and/or VAMIL, depending on the installation or measure at the RvO.
- The RvO will inform the applicant whether his request will be granted, A request may be turned down when the budget for the scheme is exhausted.
For residential RES production systems, the available support is mainly through the net-metering scheme. The net-metering scheme requires a registration of the production installation with V
- The owner of the production plant requests the grid operator (DSO) to confirm that the production plant is suitable for the production of renewable electricity.
- The grid operator (DSO) investigates the plant and, if he agrees, informs VertiCer
- VertiCer registers the production plant owner.
Competent authority
Netherlands Enterprise Agency
VertiCer