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Loan (KfW Renewable Energies - Standard)

  1. Abbreviated form of legal source(s)

    Renewable Energies Standard

  2. Description of support scheme

    KfW supports the construction, expansion and acquisition of installations for heat production from renewable energy sources with low interest loans.

  3. Amount

    The loan can cover up to 100 % of the investment sum and at most EUR 50 million. The interest rate starts at 1.03 %.

  4. Addressees

    Domestic, foreign, and public enterprises, public corporations, communal joint bodies, public institutions, freelance professionals, farms, natural persons, associations, cooperatives, foundations with legal capacities.

  5. Procedure

    Applicants can prepare the application via an online tool on the website. They must then find a financing partner. The bank administers the KFW loan. Further information can be found on this website:
    https://www.kfw.de/inlandsfoerderung/Privatpersonen/Neubau/Förderprodukte/Erneuerbare-Energien-(270)/

  6. Competent authority

    KfW loans are implemented by financing partners (e.g., banks).

  7. Technologies

    Aerothermal

    Eligible

    Hydrothermal

    Eligible

    Biogas

    Eligible

    Biomass

    Installations producing heat from solid biomass of are supported if not exceeding a capacity of 2 MW.

    Geothermal energy

    Eligible

    Solar Thermal

    Eligible