Funding
Funding of Energy Efficiency in Buildings in Germany
In this section you find detailed information about topics related to energy efficiency in buildings of the IWG member states and associated countries like research topics, programs or key national data.
The information was directly collected from the IWG MS representatives.
Strategic goals of Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I) related to Energy Efficiency in Buildings
The building sector comprises a broad range of RD&I topics. They include both investigations on the production side and on the side of end users. The energy supply ought to be as local, economical and sustainable as possible. The reduction of primary energy demand, the integration of renewable energies and the resulting drastic reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the production, operation, modernization and deconstruction of buildings are the main objectives of RD&I and demonstration projects. Innovations in building materials and upgrades in construction components and technical building services pave the way for locally adapted, integrated concepts with the aim of bringing the generation, distribution, storage and use of thermal and electrical energy into alignment. Strategically important RD&I topics are
- Technical building services and innovative materials
- Integration of renewable energies
- Heat and cold supply
- Thermal storage facilities
- Stationary fuel cells and co-generation plants
- Digital planning, construction – and living
- Research transfer for the energy transition in neighbourhoods
Available funding programmes for RD&I Success stories regarding funding Main research institutes and industries in the building sector Key National Data
Available funding programmes for RD&I
Program A: BMWK (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action) funding under the 8th Programme on Energy research
| Recent calls | In autumn 2023, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) published the “8th Energy Research Programme for Applied Energy Research – Research Missions for the Energy Transition |
| TRL | 3 to 8 |
| Contact point | Project Management Jülich, www.ptj.de |
| Website of program | https://www.energieforschung.de/en/funding/funding-opportunitiestransition |
| Links to sites of individual projects | www.enargus.de |
The funding priorities for applied energy research under the 8th Energy Research Programme include both technology-specific and non-technological topics as well as overarching cross-cutting issues. The programme thus covers the entire spectrum of the energy system. More information on the funding priorities: https://www.energieforschung.de/en/funding/funding-priorities
- ZukunftBau
- Research for sustainability, FONA
- Federal funding for energy-efficient buildings (BEG)
- Federal funding for efficient heating networks (BEW)
- Federal funding for serial renovation
- National climate action initiative (NKI): climate action projects in municipalities
- Municipal heat planning
- Energy consulting for residential and non-residential buildings
Ministries, research institutes and industries in the building sector
- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
- Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Construction
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research
- German Sustainable Building Council
- Institut Bauen und Umwelt e.V.
- Fraunhofer-Allianz Bau
- Institut für Bauforschung e.V.
Key National Data
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855 TWh (2019) |
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Share of space heating and hot water in final energy consumption |
31.8% (2019) |
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Share of energy consumption for space heating and hot water in residential buildings |
84% (2019) |
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Share of heat generation from renewables (biomass, biogenic part of waste, solar thermal energy, deep and shallow geothermal energy) in total heat generation |
15.6% (2020) |
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Funding applications for energy-efficient new residential buildings |
93,000 (2020) |
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Increase compared to 2019 |
110% |
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Funding applications for energy-efficient renovation of residential buildings |
19,826 (2020) |
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Increase compared to 2019 |
Source: BMWK: Energiedaten: Gesamtausgabe
Answers where given by IWG representive for MS Germany