10,000 Houses Program Stopped

I also find it absurd that such a funding program was simply stopped without warning. And unfortunately, this is not an isolated case... In this case, I am just glad that I am not affected by this story in Austria.

Nevertheless, it is always frustrating to see how bureaucracy often has more disadvantages than advantages.

So we are currently writing them an email every day or contacting Ilse directly on Facebook. On top of that, phone harassment. Probably the modified program requirements state that only KfW 40 Plus is being subsidized.

We have already written to Ilse Aigner and the [Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft]. But zero reaction..

Nice how they leave some people hanging

I can understand that it annoys you. But the program was ended at the end of last year because the funding was completely allocated. The pot is empty. If I were you, I would set a deadline for how long to wait to see if the program will be relaunched (under what conditions is still a question). After that, plan without further waiting.

I called the hotline on Friday. According to the information, it will not be continued in March 2017. Whether and when in April is also not yet certain.

The fund itself is not yet empty; there are sufficient resources available. It could be that the calculation method changes (Passive House project package vs Energy Saving Ordinance). On the other hand, the conditions could become stricter (1-liter house will replace the current 1.5-liter house).

"Could" because the employees themselves do not know anything for sure and the whole thing can change daily.

We planned our house as a 1.5-liter house with a brine heat pump and controlled residential ventilation and wanted to start in March. According to the old regulation, that amounts to about €11,000 in funding.

Currently, I am considering whether we should revert to gas and forgo the funding.

Currently I am considering whether we should switch back to gas and forgo the subsidy.

Oh, the people at the hotline can tell me all kinds of things about could have and would have.
I call there every week and everyone tries to explain it differently somehow.
But ultimately, no one there has a clue about what is actually being revised at the moment, let alone when anything will change.

It's nice that you can still go back.
Not all builders have that advantage.

We, for example, unfortunately can no longer do that.
Our separate tectonic planning (so a new building application was necessary in mid-2016) because of stronger exterior walls and improved insulation for Kfw55 and the 3-liter house mentioned in the program.

The solar pipes are already lying in the trench around the future house (according to information, this was already possible and does not count as the start of construction since it was only preparatory work and done as self-performed work without a contract).
We are basically just waiting for this damn program...
We have already had to postpone all the craftsmen several times.

It really annoys us that we invested extra money back then to get the subsidy.
If we had known that, we wouldn’t have gone to the energy consultant back then and could have started building already in 2016. (and in addition would have saved a lot of extra investment/trouble that we have now)