EU: A €408M Spanish State aid scheme for cleantech investments approved by the European Commission

A €408M Spanish State aid scheme has been approved to "support the decarbonisation of manufacturing industry" under the Clean Industrial Deal, announced the European Commission on 15/12/2025.

The scheme will be "fully financed by the Recovery and Resilience Fund (from the NextGenerationEU plan), following the Commission's positive assessment of the Spain's Recovery and Resilience Plan and its adoption by the Council".

"Spain expects annual GHG emission savings of around 1.6 megatonnes of CO2. The measure will support investments into technologies such as electrification, shifting to renewable or low-carbon hydrogen, recovery of waste heat, carbon capture, storage and utilisation (CCUS), in a wide range of sectors including chemicals, ceramics, paper and metallurgy".

The Spanish State scheme aid will take the form of "direct grants. The measure will be open to enterprises of all sizes, and to installations and sectors within and outside the ETS". In addition, "the maximum aid amount per company per project is capped at €200M".

The aid amount is determined based on the eligible…