Apply for a loan with repayment subsidy for measures to provide process heat from renewable energies
Description
The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) promotes the provision of process heat from renewable energies in companies.
You can receive funding for the following measures:
- Solar panels
- biomass plants,
- heat pumps, provided that they use renewable heat sources;
- Heat accumulators for these heat generators.
You will not receive any funding:
- for measures prescribed by law,
- if you have already started the measure before you have submitted the application.
If you want to buy plants for the provision of process heat from renewable energies, then you can get a loan of up to EUR 25 million.
The amount of the subsidy when repaying the loan depends on the size of your company:
- small and medium-sized enterprises (up to 249 employees and annual turnover of no more than EUR 50 million or total assets of no more than EUR 43 million): 55 percent of the eligible costs,
- large companies (250 or more employees and annual turnover of more than EUR 50 million or total assets greater than EUR 43 million): 45 percent of eligible costs.
Eligible costs are:
- all costs for the implementation of the measure,
- Additional costs for planning and installation.
Costs for
- the integration of the measure into the existing process and
- yield monitoring and fault detection of the installed measurement and data acquisition systems.
You can receive a maximum of EUR 10 million in repayment subsidies.
You will not receive the repayment subsidy until you have completed your measure. To do this, you must prove:
- that you spent the money from the loan on the measure,
- that the measure technically fulfills its performance.
You must keep all invoices and receipts related to the eligible costs.
Applications for funding are processed by the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW).
You are not entitled to the approval of the funding.
Reference to further funding opportunities of the program:
You can also apply for a direct grant from the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA) via the "Federal Funding for Energy Efficiency in the Economy" funding program (apply for subsidy for measures to provide process heat from renewable energies).
Applications can be submitted:
- domestic and foreign companies in the commercial sector
- municipal companies
- Cultivators
- Freelancers
- Contractors who carry out measures for an eligible company
Other prerequisites:
- You must be creditworthy
- Your company must have its registered office or branch office in Germany
- the funded measure must be implemented in Germany and operated for at least three years
- More than 50 percent of the process heat generated by the measure must be used for the manufacture of products or services
- Your measure must meet minimum technical requirements
When applying, you must submit:
- Process Heat Data Acquisition Sheet
- hydraulic system diagram
- Offer of the planned plant
- in the case of contracting projects: Confirmation of the contracting project
- in the case of SME subsidies: self-declaration of compliance with the SME definition
- in the case of "de minimis" funding: "de minimis" declaration
What other documents you may have to submit in your case can be found in the appendix to the leaflet "Minimum Technical Requirements for Process Heat from Renewable Energies".
Once you have completed your measure, you will need to submit the following documents:
- Confirmation after implementation of the investment measure
- none
- Application:
- until 31.12.2022
- before the start of the measure
- Loan call period: within 12 months of loan approval, in one lump sum or in instalments
- Proof of use of funds: within 12 months of full disbursement of the loan
for the processing of the application: 3 to 6 weeks
Hint:
Once you have submitted your application, you can start the measure at your own financial risk.
- Forms: yes
- Online procedure possible: no
- Written form required: yes
- Personal appearance required: yes (at the financing partner)
Hint:
You will receive the original forms from your financing partner. You fill out the forms together.
You must submit the application for funding in writing to the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW).
- You first need a financing partner, through whom you can then submit your application to KfW. The financing partner can be a bank, building society or a financial intermediary.
- Select your financing partner and make an appointment for a consultation. If you are looking for a financing partner, you can use the online consultation request on the KfW website.
- During the consultation, the financing partner checks whether your planned measure meets all the requirements and whether you are creditworthy.
- You fill out the loan application together with your financing partner. Your financing partner will inform you which other forms and documents you need for your application.
- Your financing partner submits the completed loan application to KfW. KfW will review your application and decide on the funding.
- You will then be informed by your financing partner whether your loan with repayment subsidy will be approved.
- Conclude the loan agreement with your financing partner and start taking action. KfW will pay you the loan amount in full.
- Once you have completed the measure, you must prove to your financing partner that:
- that you have spent the money from the loan on the measure and
- that the measure technically fulfills its performance.
- You submit these proofs to your financing partner.
- Your financing partner will check and confirm your evidence and forward it to KfW.
- If KfW has also checked the evidence, you will receive the repayment subsidy as a credit.
Hint:
It is best to seek advice from an energy efficiency expert before submitting your application for funding. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can apply for grants from the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA) in the program "Federal Funding for Energy Consulting in SMEs".
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
