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Current LED funding programs at a glance
With LAS you can master the energy conversion
Renovation pays off – save energy and reduce CO2 emissions! Renovation offers numerous advantages: It reduces energy consumption and operating costs and makes a valuable contribution to the fight against climate change. Benefit from government subsidies for your switch to LED lighting.
BEG funding from BAFA
Federal funding for efficient buildings (BEG EM)
BMWK (BMU) funding
Funding for public institutions in accordance with the Municipal Guidelines (KRL)
Who is supported?
Valid since 1 January 2021
BEG funding for
- Companies, including sole proprietors and municipal companies
- Local authorities, municipal associations and special purpose associations
- legally dependent municipal enterprises
- non-profit organizations including churches
- Private individuals, homeowners associations and freelancers
- other legal entities under private law, including housing cooperatives
Term 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2027
BMWK funding for
- Municipalities and municipal associations
- Municipal companies with at least 25% municipal participation and special purpose associations with municipal participation
- Educational institutions and child and youth welfare facilities
- Public, non-profit and religious universities, cultural, health and social institutions
- Religious communities with corporate status and their foundations
- Sports clubs with non-profit status
What is being funded?
BEG funding rate 15%
- Applies to indoor and hall lighting as well as control technology
- As a direct grant from the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA)
- Acquisition including related measures, e.g., site setup, material costs, installation, deinstallation and disposal
- Including specialist planning and construction supervision
BMWK funding rate 25–40%
- 25-40 % subsidies for time- or presence-dependent outdoor and street lighting (up to 55 % for financially weak municipalities)
- 25 % subsidies for indoor/hall lighting with user-friendly control and regulation technology (up to 40 % for financially weak municipalities, lignite mining areas)
- As a direct subsidy based on the municipal guidelines (KRL) of the Federal Environment Ministry within the framework of the National Climate Protection Initiative (NKI)
- Acquisition including related measures, e.g., site setup, material costs, installation, deinstallation and disposal
- Including specialist planning and construction supervision
What should be considered?
Requirements for BEG funding
- The application is submitted online via the BAFA portal
- Information on how to apply
- Involvement of an energy efficiency expert (EEE) who supports energy-related planning and construction supervision
- Approval period after grant notification 36 months
- Planning and consulting services may be provided before the application is submitted, but no start of the construction project
- Existing buildings eligible from an age of 5 years
- The building must be heated and/or cooled
- Investment volume min. 2000 euros net
- System luminous efficacy min. 140 lm/W for continuous row luminaires, min. 120 lm/W for all other lighting systems
- Lumen maintenance min. L80 at 50,000 operating hours
BEG funding in just three steps
Important information about BMWK funding
- Applications are submitted via the easy online portal
- To the funding compass
- The approval period is usually 18 months
- Start of the funding project only after approval of the grant
- Proof of greenhouse gas savings of at least 50%
- Design / lighting planning by a qualified specialist planner
- Recesses at the edges of the hall through which light radiates outwards (windows) to reduce light emissions
Changes to the KRL since November 2024
- Reduction of bureaucratic hurdles, simplified application process
- Establishment of fixed-amount funding for grants of up to 6 million euros to municipalities
- simplified application for staff funding through flat-rate approaches
- Integration of the GBER and De Minimis Regulation for the approval of state aid under European legislation
- Raising the minimum grant amount to 10,000 euros
- Deletion of funding priorities 4.1.2 and 4.2.1 b) for simplification
Three steps to BEG funding
Benefit from our extensive expertise and get your application approved quickly and easily – without long waiting times.
LAS and the BVFE support you in applying for BEG funding
The Federal Funding for Efficient Buildings (BEG) provides an additional incentive to renovate buildings. However, the conventional route to obtaining a subsidy can be complex and time-consuming. This begins with the search for an available energy efficiency expert.
We will advise you in detail about the energy saving options available through switching to LED and will assist you in applying for funding from the BVFE – Federal Association for the Promotion of Energy Efficiency. The BVFE’s fee will be partially subsidised.
Authorization to submit an application
Step 1
By granting this authorization, you can confidently hand over the application process to the Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BVFE). The BVFE has access to its own, readily available energy efficiency experts, whose technical project descriptions are required for the application process.
Documents
submit
Step 2
The BVFE only requires the following completed and signed documents to submit the application to BAFA:
- Information on the award of the BVFE contract
- Checklist/questionnaire with the total of planned investments
- Data sheets of planned eligible luminaires
- Site plan
Feedback within a few days
Step 3
After successfully reviewing the submitted documents, the BVFE submits the application digitally. With this preliminary acceptance already completed, confirmation of the successful application is usually received within three days. Once the application and confirmation of receipt have been received, the renovation work can begin without delay.