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In Milan there are still 1.500 diesel systems; greater incentives for their replacement ahead of a total ban in 2023

Milan, September 13 2020 – The Municipality of Milan has decided to relaunch the BE2 tender, reformulating the criteria for distribution of resources. Citizens will therefore have greater advantages for carrying out energy efficiency work in their homes and will be able to request contributions until 31 December this year. Work is expected to begin no later than autumn 2021.

The BE1 and BE2 tenders, financed in total for 23 million and 850.000 euros, have made it possible in recent years to provide funds to private individuals to carry out works with an environmental impact on the private building stock (for example, installation of solar panels, green roofs and walls, depaving of external areas, replacement of old heating systems, thermal insulation etc.).

As regards BE2, over 10 million and 200.000 euros of resources have already been disbursed or booked. Funds which made it possible to carry out or plan around 160 interventions.

With the reformulation of the tender launched by the Council and to be published in the next few days, the aim will be to further incentivize the execution of these works, reformulating the distribution of contributions and increasing, in some cases by more than double, for the most sustainable types. , the Municipality's participation in the overall cost of the intervention. In particular, greater importance will be given to interventions to replace plants powered by fossil fuels with systems powered by renewable resources, efficient district heating and micro-cogeneration. To date, in the city, there are still over 1.500 diesel boilers: according to Amat estimates, for each system replaced it is possible to achieve an annual saving of CO₂ equal to 7 tons less with a gas system, 10 tons for district heating, 14 with a heat pump system.

Overall, the impact on air quality deriving from the replacement of all gas and oil boilers still present in the city (in view of the total ban starting from 2023) would allow a reduction in emissions equal to approximately 46.000 tonnes of CO₂.

Greater resources will also be allocated to interventions on the building envelope, which in the latest edition of the tender received a notable number of requests from users; for these works, a maximum ceiling will be set for each individual application, in order to increase the number of beneficiaries.

These are all interventions that make it possible to significantly reduce emissions and reduce heating and cooling costs, thus improving the quality of Milan's air and saving families.