Additional benefits of BAFA funding

Hello everyone!

There are already quite a few threads regarding how the BAFA funding process works, etc., but two things have not been addressed there:

1. The costs incurred to actually install the heating system somewhere.
2. The additional subsidies that contribute to optimizing the heating system.

The BAFA information sheet on eligible costs for renewable energies contains the following sentences:

1. On page 5, item 3b: "Creation and connection to the heat pump system – including the necessary technical work and materials"
According to our plumbing company, this includes, for example, the breakthrough through the wall to the outdoor unit and even the foundation that was built to be able to install the outdoor unit.

2. On page 6, item 5a: "Funding is provided for the implementation of electronic systems for operational optimization, increase in energy efficiency, and improvement of the grid compatibility of the subsidized heating technology systems. Components of measurement, control, and regulation technology (MSR) as well as building automation technology can be considered, provided they also serve the operational and consumption optimization of an eligible heat generator."

Listed there, for example, are "sensors, actuators, data loggers" and "digital/electronic radiator thermostats / room thermostats".
Additionally, point 5b: "Assembly and installation including the necessary technical work and materials"

For me this means that I can not only claim the electrician costs for the wall thermostats, but also the costs of the shutter actuators of the home automation system in the subsidy application. Is that correct?

So, that should be it. What exactly will be funded in the end, we will probably only know when the first person has a corresponding installation and the money in their account.

Why roller shutter actuators? Because you can say that they should be raised when there is sunshine; the solar gains reduce the heating demand?

Why roller shutter actuators? Because you can say that they should be raised when the sun is shining; the solar gains reduce the heating demand?

Is the only thing that makes sense

Or down at night, reduces heat loss... maybe.

Just wanted to give an update, maybe this is still interesting for some:

20.12.2020 Invoices and documents fully submitted via the BAFA website
11.02.2021 Received a letter stating that a stamp from the executing company is still missing :rolleyes: So I uploaded this document again on the website
20.02.2021 Received a letter stating that the documents are complete and that the amount will be transferred to our account within two weeks

Services of the electrician (wiring room thermostats and connecting the heat pump to the distribution box), as well as the roller shutter actuators, were not accepted. Accordingly, we will receive a few hundred euros less than originally calculated.