Fast-Track support for Strategic Investments in Portugal
Developing large-scale projects in Portugal can be a complex journey, requiring coordination across multiple stages and entities. However, securing Portuguese Important Project (PIN) or Investment Project for the Interior (PII) status unlocks a powerful advantage—streamlining approvals and accelerating progress.
With direct support from key governmental bodies such as APA, CCDR, Floene, REN, and others, investors benefit from: ✔ Priority in licensing – ensuring faster approvals ✔ Simultaneous administrative processing – cutting through bureaucracy ✔ Significant reduction in timelines – getting projects off the ground quicker
For those looking to invest in Portugal, PIN/PII status is the key to unlocking efficiency and success.
RRP will allocate EUR 20 M to the call “Energy Efficiency in Services Buildings” until May 31, 2022 (or until the limit of the budget). It aims to reduce primary energy consumption by at least 30% and 20% in water supply consumption in the intervened buildings.
Legal and individual persons who own commercial and services buildings in the private sector and who carry out commercial activity in these buildings, covered by the Energy Certification System could submit a project with an investment period of 24 months. Entities operating in Tourism and Social Economy are also included.
Eligible expenses will be supported with an incentive up to 70%, with a maximum of EUR 200 000 per entity, being subjected to minimis plafond.
The project must at least cover one of the following typologies:
Opaque and glazed façades;
Intervention in technical systems;
Energy production based on renewable energy sources for self-consumption;
Hydric efficiency;
Immaterial actions.
Eligible expenses include, for example, the replacement of glazed windows, the installation or replacement of HVAC and/or hot water systems, heat pumps, and consultancy/audit actions in energy and/or hydric efficiency.
However, expenses such as the acquisition of land, and buildings and the construction or renovation of buildings are not considered eligible, independently of their contribution to the considered measures.
