What is being funded?
Energy efficiency and savings
Reduce your operating costs by investing in energy-efficient technologies and processes such as refrigeration and air conditioning systems, waste heat recovery and lighting systems.
- Contracting
- Investment in implementation measures
- Refrigeration and air conditioning systems
- Waste heat recovery
- Electric motors and drives
- Compressed air generators
- Lighting systems
- Rational use of energy
- Use of process heat or solar cooling
- Heat storage
Selection of funding programs
BAFA funding programs
- Special compensation scheme
- Federal funding for efficient buildings
- Federal funding for efficient heating networks
- Federal funding for energy consulting for non-residential buildings, facilities and systems
- Federal funding for energy consulting for residential buildings
- Federal funding for energy and resource efficiency in the economy - grant
- Refrigeration and air conditioning systems
- Combined heat and power (CHP): systems, grids, storage facilities
KfW funding programs
KfW promotes projects by private individuals, companies and municipal institutions. KfW promotional products are available in 2 forms - as a directly disbursed grant or as a loan. A special form is the loan with repayment subsidy, where you do not have to repay the loan amount in full. The following areas are subsidized:
- Purchase, construction and renovation of energy-efficient residential and non-residential buildings, as well as individual measures such as the purchase and installation of climate-friendly heating systems
- Generation of sustainable electricity and heat
- Support for climate-friendly measures and activities
- Transformation and modernization of commercial companies and promotion of highly efficient technologies
TAB funding programs
- Funding for investments in companies and support for infrastructure projects
- Support for business founders, start-ups and innovative business ideas
- Support for companies and public institutions in implementing measures to increase energy and resource efficiency, for investments in environmentally friendly technologies and renewable energies
- Promotion of digitalization measures, digital technologies and IT security
- Grants and low-interest loans for barrier-free and energy-efficient construction and refurbishment


