Thermoacumulator
Water heater was preferred in the first phase. The majority of vouchers went to families that are not in a fragile economic situation.
The application phase for the , the support for the purchase of household appliances.
The program supports families in replacement from household appliances to gas by equipment electrical more efficient. The Government assigns a value, in the form of voucher.
The first phase at the end of September. A week later, the Environmental Fund’s membership was so high – 40 thousand applications in 6 days – that there was no longer any money for that support. It was a total of 30 million euros.
There was various equipment available: induction or conventional electric hobs, electric ovens and electric water heaters. At the time, the thermoaccumulator was the most sought after equipment.
The numbers collected by , in relation to the first phase of E-Lar, point to almost 22 thousand vouchers allocated; more than 8 thousand have already been discounted. But vulnerable families were left with just a third of the total vouchers.
I.e, almost 70% of the vouchers were given to families that are not in a fragile economic situation.
The majority of vouchers (almost 25%) were delivered in Lisbon. The Porto and Setúbal districts follow.
The validity of the E-Lar voucher is 60 dias. If the interested party lets this period pass, they will no longer be able to take advantage of the support.
He adds that the Government now has a high-capacity server at the National Energy and Geology Laboratory, to avoid the technical problems that occurred in the first phase.
