Advancement
The use of renewable raw materials very often necessitates financial support to be able to compete economically over the short and the medium term. There are various sources that provide funding. Some of them only concern renewable raw materials, others aim at the general funding of innovative and/or environmentally more compatible technologies.
C.A.R.M.E.N. has compiled a compendium of funding possibilities in the field of energetic biomass use. The survey deals with funding possibilities in Germany. A distinction is drawn between federal and state funding, communal funding and funding provided by private suppliers, especially power supply companies. The range of funding schemes is rapidly changing.
Therefore, the tables of the appendix do not list detailed conditions and prerequisites. These further details should be obtained from the funding bodies the contact addresses of which are given. Your attention is particularly drawn to the regulations of the single granting bodies. The list does not lay claim to completeness. As a matter of course, no responsibility can be taken for errors or omissions.
For attaining the economic competitiveness of renewable raw materials over the short and the medium term, the EU, the German Federal government, and the German state governments have launched several funding programmes.
State Programmes in Bavaria
Market Stimulus Programme
BioKomm, BioHeiz500
Plants with an Output of More than 500 kW - Funding in Particular Cases
Combined Heat and Power Act
The act for the maintenance, modernisation and further development of
combined heat and power (CHP) of March 2002 (combined heat and power act)
was amended in the German Federal Law Gazette on March 22nd, 2002 (BGBl.
IS. 1092). The act came into effect on April 1st, 2002. The Bundesamt
für Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle (Federal Office of Economics
and Export Control; BAFA) decides on the admission of CHP plants into
the preferential system of the combined heat and power act. There is an
admission charge.
The act protects existing CHP plants for a fixed period and creates special
incentives to modernise them quickly. In addition to that, the act particularly
furthers the construction of small CHP plants up to 2 MW, especially the
construction of small CHP plants up to 50 kW, and of fuel cell plants.
According to the act, the operators of benefiting CHP plants will presumably
be able obtain supplementary payments of a total of 4.448 billion euros
until the year 2010.
You can find an online
application form and the wording of the act on the website of the
Bundesamt für Wirtschaft
und Ausfuhrkontrolle.
