• Only energy consultants who have been approved by BAFA on the basis of their professional qualifications are eligible to apply.
• An energy consultation for residential buildings comprises at least the following steps:
  • an on-site data survey,
  • the preparation of an energy consulting report (in particular an individual renovation roadmap) and
  • handing it over and then explaining it to you as the person receiving the advice.
• A subsidized energy consultation can only be claimed if
  • the building is located in Germany,
  • the building application for the residential building was submitted at least 10 years ago,
  • the building is primarily used for residential purposes and falls within the scope of the Building Energy Act (GEG).
• As an advised person, you must pay your own contribution.

Funding is excluded if

• you as the person being advised are yourself approved as an energy consultant for this funding program,
• you are the spouse or partner of the energy consultant,
• the residential building is majority-owned by the federal or state government,
• the owner is a company that does not meet the requirements for micro-enterprises and SMEs,
• the owner of the building is a company that could rely on its own staff with the qualifications required for approval,
• the energy consulting company has only a proportionate ownership interest in the residential building,
• the recipient of the advice has itself been approved by the approval authority as an energy advisor for the funding program;
• the recipient of the advice is a company over whose assets insolvency proceedings have been applied for or opened,
• the recipient of the consultancy is a company that has received de minimis aid totaling at least EUR 200,000 (EUR 100,000 in the case of companies in the road transport sector) in the current year and in the previous two fiscal years, including the funding under these guidelines,
• the recipient of the advice is a company that is otherwise excluded under Article 1 of the de minimis Regulation.