Hello everyone,
I just registered here because we are also affected by the funding stop. Our situation is even more bitter because we want to apply for subsidy 461 for an EH40. We were also approved for it on 12/23, but unfortunately the energy consultant made a mistake and applied for an EH55 (the developer and we had explicitly commissioned 40). We immediately pointed out the error, were reassured, and after the cancellation, the new application for EH40 was submitted on 01/10. If the energy consultant had not made the mistake, we would have no problem now. And now we are stuck in limbo because this EH40 application has not yet been approved...
But I also have new insights to contribute:
Yesterday, a supplementary budget of 60 billion was approved for the Energy and Climate Fund (EKF). This shifted guaranteed but unused loans from last year into the budget for this year. Source: Bundestag
The Bundestag passed the second supplementary budget 2021 on Thursday, January 27, 2022...60 billion euros transferred to reserves
With the second supplementary budget, loan authorizations amounting to 60 billion euros from the core budget are to be transferred to a reserve of the Energy and Climate Fund (EKF), a special federal fund. With these funds, the federal government intends to finance climate and transformation policy projects in the coming years.
According to the federal government, the primary aim is to contribute to combating the corona pandemic, for example by stimulating private investments. With their amendment motions in the Budget Committee, the coalition factions added binding explanations to the relevant budget items regarding the use of the funds transferred to the EKF.
Accordingly, the funds are to be used, among other things, to "strengthen investments in measures for energy efficiency and renewable energies in the building sector" and to "strengthen the demand of private consumers and the commercial SME sector by abolishing the Renewable Energy Sources Act surcharge." Part of the supplementary budget also includes a personnel list submitted by the coalition factions in the Budget Committee. It provides for the creation of 148 new positions in federal ministries and the Bundestag.
Maybe this will allow at least the existing applications to be approved. At least the open applications for EH40 (about 3,000) and renovations (700) would be a fair thing to approve. At least from my point of view, it can no longer simply be said that the "funds are empty."
Furthermore, there is supposed to be a special building ministers' meeting and a resolution motion from the CDU/CSU. Source: Handelsblatt
After the controversial KfW funding stop for energy-efficient buildings, NRW, Bavaria, and Brandenburg demanded a special building ministers’ conference between the states and the federal government in a letter to Razavi on Thursday morning: "The current decision of the federal government torpedoes the affordability of housing, measures for public housing, and the freely financed housing sector throughout the Federal Republic of Germany," reads the letter obtained by Handelsblatt. Important construction projects are at risk of collapse. [...]
NRW Building Minister Ina Scharrenbach (CDU) demanded that the "back-and-forth" must end immediately. "The funding stop threatens construction projects across the country, unsettles owners, and ultimately leads to rent increases." The stop must be reversed, or a quick alternative must come that is equivalent to the previous KfW funding, demanded the CDU politician. [...]
Resolution motion by the Union faction
The CDU/CSU faction announced that it intends to submit a resolution motion to the Bundestag on Friday. In it, the demand to reverse the funding stop for energy-efficient buildings and renovations ordered on January 24 with immediate effect is reaffirmed. Already submitted funding applications are to be processed quickly and approved promptly if the requirements are met.
"The funding stop without warning leaves tens of thousands of young families out in the cold, their dream of home ownership is now at risk of collapsing," said Jan-Marco Luczak, the building and housing policy spokesman of the Union parliamentary group. "With this, the Federal Minister of Economics has massively destroyed trust." This is not only a blow against home ownership but also undermines the goals for climate protection and new construction.
Experts report that steadily rising construction prices and increasing interest rates have significantly increased building costs in recent months. If the planned KfW funding falls through in financing, many construction projects are at risk of failing. "We now urgently need planning security about what will be funded in what scope and under which conditions in the future," demanded Luczak. "Otherwise, the real estate industry cannot and will not build the necessary capacities to achieve the ambitious new construction goals."
I think it is good that the topic is still being discussed and pressure is being put on the government!