Bafa funding for heat pumps will be discontinued as of 31.12.2020.

We actually wanted to have started already, but there were some delays. If we don't get the funding now or only in June, that would be quite a disaster. Can someone write again where it said it was in June? Does it make sense to try to quickly send out a Bafa application now to have all options open at the beginning of next year?

Would be interesting to me too..

The BaFa application can be quickly submitted online once the offers are available. The only question is whether you are still allowed to withdraw it next year! In 2019, applications could no longer do that and had to live with the significantly worse conditions from 2019!

The only thing I wonder about with the BaFa form is that a street and house number are required. The street is available with the site plan, but the street view images only come much later, or how do you handle that? Do they make things difficult at BaFa? The house number is a mandatory field..

Can someone please write again where it said that about June?

From 02.01.2021, subsidies for the BEG individual measures can be applied for at the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA). From 01.07.2021, loan funding for the BEG individual measures as well as loan or subsidy funding for full renovations and efficient new buildings of residential and non-residential buildings (BEG WG and BEG NWG) can be applied for at KfW (possibly indirectly via the house bank). Until 01.07.2021, applications for full renovations and efficient new buildings of residential and non-residential buildings can still be submitted as usual for the corresponding “Energy-Efficient Building and Renovating” programs at KfW. For citizens, a single application will eventually be sufficient to use all funding offers. These are either submitted to the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA) or to KfW.

Is it really like that, that’s exactly the question I’m asking myself right now. From which passage do you read that? That would be really crazy, there are probably quite a few who have already applied and just want to push the KFW next year. ....

So I’ll try to build this up systematically now with the available information. Of course, it’s possible that I’m reading it wrong now, but all statements from the ministry, including previous publications, point exactly in that direction. The only exception would be if I could run BEG EM and BEG WG in parallel, but in my opinion all currently known information speaks against that.

[*]The BEG is generally justified as follows:

"Simplified accessibility: All funding offers (energy efficiency, renewable energies, professional planning and construction supervision) can be applied for with only one application at only one institution (KfW or BAFA), including professional planning and construction supervision; funding conditions for residential and non-residential buildings will be aligned"

There should only be one application at one institution that covers everything. In other words, you have to decide either for BEG EM or for BEG WG. You cannot apply for both because it would be for the same project (new construction of a single-family house in most cases).

[*]Renewable energies, i.e. heating systems, are captured by certain efficiency classes (for which there is then an EE or NH bonus):

"Integration of renewable energies and energy efficiency: EE classes (e.g., ‘Effizienzhaus 55 EE’) are introduced for the use of renewable energies in new construction and renovations, and the funding rate is increased"

Here you can actually read clearly that there will no longer be individual funding for heat pumps in new construction, but these are captured with a bonus to the existing repayment grant. This is also the summary of various energy consulting sites, which provide information in this direction on their websites.

There are quite a few other FAQs pointing in this direction. It is probably only a matter of time until they specify this somewhat more concretely for this, in my opinion, most important constellation.

I see it similarly to how you wrote it, but doesn't it say exactly that KfW applications can be submitted as usual (old conditions) until 1st July 2021? That indirectly means that there is nothing against a Bafa subsidy from this year, right? Because the BEG loan requirement only applies from 1st July 2021!

In my understanding, this would mean that the old KfW can be applied for/until/should be applied for loans until 1st July 2021, and thus the combination with the current Bafa subsidy is compliant.
Or I basically misunderstand something at the moment/am missing the point

Best regards

According to my understanding, this would mean that the old KfW can/must/should be applied for until 1.7.2021 for loans and thus the combination with the current BAFA funding is compliant.
Or I am fundamentally misunderstanding something at the moment / am at a loss

That’s also how I would interpret it at the moment. So for me, BAFA still has to be applied for until 31.12...
We’ll see, the new information sheets are supposed to be released soon.