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The Federal Office is temporarily stopping payment of funding for energy advice
Status: 27.03.2024 | Reading time: 2 minutes
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After the budget ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court, funding remains scarce. The Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA) is now once again suspending the payment of funding for energy consulting. The industry criticizes the move.
The Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA) has surprisingly suspended the funding programs for energy advice. That’s according to “Spiegelfrom a letter that the authority sent to energy consultants.
There is currently “a pause in approval” and there could be a “delay in payment,” the magazine quotes from the letter. However, all obligations already entered into through grant notifications would be fulfilled. “The applications submitted will now be processed in the order in which they were received,” Bafa continues.
The authority justifies the temporary suspension by saying that the Federal Ministry of Finance only delivers funding from the Climate and Transformation Fund (KTF) on a staggered basis. The ministry recently announced that it wanted to use the available funds sparingly due to the strained budget situation. Cautious practice should ensure that we can still react to unforeseeable changes.
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“The renewed funding stop creates enormous uncertainty and unnecessarily delays renovation projects,” criticized Stefan Bolln, energy consultant and federal chairman of the GIH energy consultants’ association. He is extremely bothered by the fact that the federal government does not communicate in a unified manner about its funding programs. You now have to provide clarity as quickly as possible. “The construction industry urgently needs positive signals.”
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At the end of last year, the Federal Constitutional Court declared the reallocation of 60 billion euros in the federal budget to be unconstitutional. This particularly affected the Climate and Transformation Fund (KTF), from which numerous funding programs were to be paid. After the budget ruling, the federal government suspended funding for energy advice.