The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) promotes measures to increase energy efficiency in companies.
You can receive funding for the following measures:

• Measurement, control and regulation technology and sensor technology to monitor the efficiency of energy flows,
• Energy management software including the costs of employee training.

You will not receive funding

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

If you want to buy measurement and control technology, sensors or energy management software, you can get a loan of up to EUR 25 million.

The amount of the loan repayment subsidy 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): 40 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): 30 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 the costs for

• the cabling of the technology and
• for the creation of a measurement concept by a service provider.

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 program for energy efficiency in industry" (apply for a grant for measurement, control and regulation technology, sensor technology and energy management software).