In the first quarter of 2023, the government will continue to support energy-intensive SMEs.
To protect full employment and housholds, the government launched the energy cost and investment support program for SMEs in energy-intensive manufacturing sectors on October 1, 2022. In 2022, the government supported the affected companies with HUF 100 billion (EUR 251 million), in 2023 HUF 120 billion (EUR 301 million) are available.
The government is also expanding the program to include the commercial accommodations business. This gives another 20,000 SMEs the opportunity to offset 50% of their energy costs in the first three months of this year. A total of 36,000 companies are now eligible. Companies whose energy costs make up 2% of their turnover can now also register, previously the limit was 3.