Internal Project Management Guidelines - PV Policy Group

PV Policy Group – WP2 – Questionnaire on national policy framework for PV
1.5. Budget and financing sources of support scheme
Please indicate the annual budget volume of the support scheme and from which sources it is funded.
Which institutions are responsible for the budget.
Budgets and sources of funding:
o Federal budget: overall 1,7 Billion Euro, distributed on 66.000 approved soft loans;
o Regional budgets: only in case of additional regional credit lines.
The KfW invoices the total budget on an annual basis to the Ministries for the Economy (BMWA) and
the Environment (BMU) that transfer the amount (< 100 Mio. Euro p.a.) to the KfW from their
ministerial budgets.
The programme triggered an PV investment volume of approx. 2,4 Billion Euro and the installation of
346 MWp.
Period 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 TOTAL
Applications - number 3.922 17.090 16.589 16.294 21.423 75.318
Applications - Mio. Euro 63 545 388 458 858 2.312
Approvals - number 3.522 7.819 19.326 15.191 19.844 65.702
Approvals - Mio. Euro 52 203 416 393 650 1.714
Investments - Mio. Euro* 75 281 554 550 912 2.372
Capacity - MWp 9 37 76 78 146 346
* gross (including VAT)
** including refusals by applicants themselves
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