Whether balcony power plants or communal building supply: Solar Package I will significantly reduce bureaucracy in the construction and operation of photovoltaic systems. The new regulations will further accelerate the expansion of solar energy.
Solar Package I makes it much easier and less bureaucratic for citizens and companies to install photovoltaics (PV photovoltaics) systems and utilise solar energy. The legislative package sets an important course for achieving the ambitious climate protection targets. This is because the expansion of solar energy must be significantly accelerated once again.
The German government had passed the Solar Package I (Act amending the EEG and other energy industry regulations to increase the expansion of photovoltaic energy generation) was launched in August 2023. Both the Bundestag and the Bundesrat have now passed the law. The governing factions in the German Bundestag have supplemented the draft at the time. For example, regulations on battery storage, for the community supply of solar power and for standardised technical connection conditions throughout Germany have been added.
Most of the legislative package will come into force the day after it is published in the Federal Law Gazette.
For individual measures, KfW awards grants amounting to 10 per cent of the eligible costs (max. 2,500 euros). Anyone who converts their home to the "age-appropriate home" standard is reimbursed 12.5 per cent of the eligible costs (max. EUR 6,250) by KfW.
A total of €15 million (2023: €9 million) will be available for the Cooperative Housing programme in 2024, which will be disbursed in the form of low-interest loans. A repayment subsidy of 7.5 % is also available. The maximum amount per loan subsidy is 100,000 euros.
A total of 762 million euros will be available for KFN in 2024 in the form of subsidised loans. Loan amounts of up to 100,000 euros (climate-friendly residential building) or up to 150,000 euros (climate-friendly residential building with QNG) are possible.
On 27 February 2024, KfW will start the application process for owners of owner-occupied single-family homes as part of its heating promotion programme
Photovoltaic systems
Funding is available for the new installation or expansion of permanently installed, grid-connected photovoltaic systems. A maximum of 50 kilowatt peak (kWp) of a photovoltaic system is subsidised.
In order to strengthen climate protection, energy independence and social justice, the promotion of plug-in solar devices as well as solar installations in Bonn will be significantly increased from 1 January 2023. A "Power up the roofs" subsidy for buildings up to three residential units and a subsidy for ground-mounted photovoltaic systems, for example on car parks, will be newly introduced.
