News item | 05-09-2025 | 17:15
Energy-intensive industry in the region gets extra help with sustainability. Minister Hermans (climate and green growth) writes this to the Lower House. In total, more than 17 million euros extra subsidy has been made available.
The support focuses on ‘Cluster 6 companies’, companies that are not located in large industrial areas such as Moerdijk, but are distributed regionally. These companies (210,000 jobs and 125 billion euros in turnover) often encounter bottlenecks due to their location in sustainability.
For example, electrification or switching to hydrogen is often not possible in the short term because the required infrastructure is missing so that investment plans can beach. While these companies, active in the building materials, glass and food industry, consume a lot of energy and are obliged to reduce emissions and sustainability.
Companies that suffer from this are helped via the support program Action Plan 2.0. In addition to help, cooperation between companies will be facilitated in the event of problems that companies cannot solve independently and we look at solutions such as heat exchange.
Minister Hermans (climate and green growth). “The companies that we support with this action program form the backbone of our economy and are a regional job motor. If companies are obliged to make it more sustainable but encounter bottlenecks, I feel the obligation to help these companies and remove obstacles. This support program is more than logical.”
Action plan 2.0 is commissioned by the NPVI steering committee and a collaboration between the Ministry of Climate and Groene Groei, Stichting Cluster 6 and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO). In total, the program that runs until 2030 is available 47 million euros in subsidies.