The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) promotes the provision of process heat from renewable energies in companies.
You can receive funding for the following measures:

• Solar collectors,
• biomass systems,
• heat pumps, provided they use renewable heat sources,
• heat storage tanks for these heat generators.

You will not receive funding

• for measures prescribed by law,
• if you have already started the measure before you have submitted the application.

If you want to purchase systems for the provision of process heat from renewable energies, you can receive a loan of up to EUR 25 million.
The amount of the subsidy for the repayment of the loan depends on the size of your company:

• small and medium-sized enterprises (up to 249 employees and annual turnover not exceeding EUR 50 million or balance sheet total not exceeding EUR 43 million): 55 percent of the eligible costs,
• large companies (250 and more employees and annual turnover of more than EUR 50 million or a balance sheet total of more than EUR 43 million): 45 percent of the eligible costs.

Eligible costs are

• All costs for the implementation of the measure,
• ancillary costs for planning and installation.

Eligible costs also include costs for

• the integration of the measure into the existing process and
• yield monitoring and fault detection of the installed measurement and data acquisition systems.

You can receive a maximum repayment subsidy of EUR 10 million.
You will only receive the repayment grant once you have completed your measure. You must provide proof of this:

• that you have spent the money from the loan on the measure,
• that the measure technically fulfills its purpose.

You must keep all invoices and receipts relating to the eligible costs.
Applications for funding are processed by the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW).
You have no claim to approval of the funding.

Reference to further funding opportunities of the program:
You can also apply for a direct grant from the Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA) via the "Federal funding for energy efficiency in industry" funding program (apply for a grant for measures to provide process heat from renewable energies).