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

It worked for me now too. KNX was interestingly not a problem at all. They discussed the window contacts a bit and then crossed them out. But it wasn't a problem because I had already reached the max 17.5k anyway.

Hello everyone,

I have a question about the BAFA funding. I would like to submit an application for the heating measure package this year (2022) and then start implementation next year in April 2023. At the beginning of next year (2023), I would like to apply for another measure package (insulation) from my ISFP and implement it at the same time (April 2023). My question now concerns the maximum eligible costs of €60,000 per calendar year. Since the heating measure package is applied for this year and the insulation measure package in 2023, theoretically there are €120,000 in eligible costs. Is that correct? Does anyone have real experience with this approach? Or is the invoice date of the measure decisive for the maximum eligible costs?

It’s getting exciting: I have actually received mail from BAFA now.

According to plan, it would have gone like this.

[*]Contract signed 11/2020
[*]BAFA application 16.12.2020
[*]Development as announced completed 01.07.2021
[*]Shortly after, construction start, let’s say 01.08.2021
[*]Construction period according to contract 8 months – turnkey handover then at the end of March 2022

By the end of March at the latest, the heat pump would have been properly put into operation if everything had gone according to plan.
What did not work:

[*]Development was not finished on 01.07.2021, but about 01.11.2021 – 4 months later
[*]Construction start was then at the end of November 2021
[*]Accordingly, per contract the house would be turnkey at the end of July 2022
[*]The fact is the house is still not finished. Tiles are currently being installed. The entire sanitary equipment as well as interior doors are still missing. However, the main point here is actually only the heat pump. There is still no sign of it at all.

To support this, I would now like to ask the municipal utilities to confirm the delay in development and ideally provide a brief explanation.
Then, and this is the difficult part, I want to get confirmation of the delay from the general contractor. I don’t yet know exactly how I will do this. The general contractor will surely not gladly write that he could not keep the construction schedule and that it will probably take much longer until the heat pump is there.

Do you have any ideas?

Well, I will also argue in parallel with the wood crisis and the whole KFW funding chaos. That caused several months of planning standstill for us. Now we are fully entering the winter when nothing can be done with screed anymore. An earlier construction start would of course have been detrimental to KFW funding. In the end, we still stand without funding, and BAFA is our last straw. Nobody can blame you for wanting to secure the higher KFW funding and therefore sticking to the requirements.

I didn't quickly find his construction start, but he writes in September something about the final straight and 8 months of construction time. I would be surprised if he had already started in 2021. And then there's quickly a year gap between the application and the start of construction.

The planned start was summer '21 because the development was supposed to be completed then. However, they didn't manage the power lines and transformer connection. So the electricity only arrived on our street in October. Construction then started at the end of November.

Do you feel like we do? The first statement (November '20) was that we could start building in June. The development was then completed in September, by the time the surveyor could retrieve something, it was the end of October, and by the time the general contractor finished the building application, it was the end of November... But of course, this changes nothing about the fundamental problem that the first three quarters had absolutely nothing to do with supply difficulties for heat pumps.

Hello everyone,

I have a question regarding the Bafa subsidy. I would like to submit an application for the heating measures package this year (2022) and then start implementation in April 2023. At the beginning of next year (2023), I would like to apply for another measures package (insulation) from my ISFP and implement it simultaneously (April 2023). My question now relates to the maximum eligible costs of €60,000 per calendar year. Since the heating measures package is applied for this year and the insulation measures package in 2023, theoretically, there are €120,000 in eligible costs. Is that correct? Does anyone have real experience with this approach? Or is the invoice date of the measure decisive for the maximum eligible costs?

I would like to add here: we are currently renovating and it looks like all invoices will be dated in 2023. We have already submitted the application for individual building envelope measures in August (before the reduction to 15%), and now we are gradually receiving the relevant offers from the heating specialist and electrician for the heat pump.

The heat pump costs all-in (heat pump, new pipes, new radiators, etc.) possibly over €60,000, on which there is then a 35% subsidy. Can we then still have the individual building envelope measures subsidized in 2023 beyond that? What do we do if the heat pump costs €50,000 – do we then submit invoices totaling €10,000 for the building envelope measures?

Or can both subsidies be combined – I read somewhere about a combination possibility as long as the subsidized measures do not exceed more than 60% of the total investment?