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OWE: Building your facility

Published on:
19 August 2024

Has your application for the ‘Subsidy scheme for large-scale hydrogen production using an electrolyser (OWE)’ been approved? And are you beginning to implement your project? Or would you like to know what the implementation phase involves, before you submit a subsidy application? Then read about the steps you need to take to build and commission your facility.

What does the implementation phase entail?

You have received a letter from us informing you that your subsidy application has been approved. This is called a ‘positive decision’. Now the implementation phase of your project begins. This is the phase between receiving the decision awarding the subsidy and when you start operating (commissioning) your power generation facility.

It is the phase in which you implement the project plan according to the conditions set out in your subsidy decision. If you applied for the subsidy scheme for large-scale hydrogen production in 2023, then you have 4 years in which to build the hydrogen plant. If you applied in 2024, you have 5 years. 

You will be given the investment part of your subsidy during the implementation phase. We pay it out in advances. You will only receive the advances if the requisite permits for the project have been finalised. 

What do the advances entail?

Your project plan mentions several milestones. Each time, you will be given an advance payment for the costs you incur in the period between those milestones. This only concerns the costs covered by the subsidy (eligible costs).

We pay the advances in quarterly instalments and within 2 weeks of the start of the activities. The advance amounts to 90% of the maximum amount eligible for a subsidy in the quarter in question.

Once you have finished building your facility, we check whether you have been given too much or not enough subsidy. We call this ‘adjusting the amount’. We adjust the advance for the investment part based on your final report. We will send you the adjusted subsidy decision within 13 weeks of receiving the final report.

  • If it turns out that the total advances are less than 100% of the final investment subsidy amount, then we will pay out the amount not received within 6 weeks of the adjusted subsidy decision.
  • If it turns out that the total advances are more than 100% of the final investment subsidy amount, then we will ask you to pay back the unduly paid amount, which means that you will have to refund that amount to us.

What are your obligations?

During the implementation phase, there are several occasions on which you are obliged to communicate with us. You can read about these obligations in the drop-down menu.

Commissioned by:
  • Ministry of Climate Policy and Green Growth
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