A government subsidy, of up to 85% of eligible costs (from 2015 100 %), is available for preparing a Farm Energy Plan. The revision of the programme started in January 2015 following the introduction of the EU-financed rural development programme for the period from 2014 to 2020. The final evaluation report was published in October 2015, it was found that the goal had been overly optimistic, with only 484 farms joining the programme. On the other hand, the report found the participated farms found the programme and its services very useful.