Promotion of heating replacement (BEG-coupled) (FKG)
If you are planning to replace the heating in an existing residential building, you can apply for a subsidy.
Course description
Funding is available for the installation of efficient heat generators in existing residential buildings as individual measures or packages of measures as well as measures for building and heating networks. The funding rate is 15 per cent of the eligible costs for all individual measures on the building envelope and system technology.
The following construction measures can be subsidised:
- Solar thermal systems
- Electrically driven heat pumps
- Building network and connection to a building or heating network
You can also apply for bonus measures. Please refer to the guidelines to find out which bonus measures are eligible for funding.
Note on BEG coupling
For the same measure, an application must be submitted to BAFA or KfW for the federal subsidy for energy-efficient buildings - individual measures (BEG EM).
Important: the FKG application must be submitted first!
Funding under the FKG is excluded if the "Climate Speed Bonus" and/or the "Income Bonus" for at least one flat in the building is applied for as part of the BEG EM (exception: additional funding for heat pumps from June 2025).
Prerequisites
All binding information can be found in the directive. Here are the most important points in brief:
The following applies in the Climate Neutral Buildings (FKG) funding programme:
- Funding is only available for buildings within the city limits of the City of Munich.
- The applicant is responsible for the investment costs. This means that all orders, invoices, etc. must be issued to the applicant and paid from their bank account. The funding amount is paid out exclusively to the applicant's bank account.
- The principle of "funding application before order" is mandatory for the application and no order for the measure may have been awarded yet. If an order has been placed with the companies carrying out the construction work for which the application is to be made, this will prevent FKG funding!
- Among others, building owners and equivalent persons, for example usufructuaries, are eligible to apply. Further information on the group of applicants can be found under "Questions & Answers".
- The application must be submitted exclusively online in the municipal funding portal.
The following also applies to heating replacements:
- Measures can only be subsidised for existing buildings.
- These measures are part of a building-specific energy consultation that was created with the help of an individualised renovation roadmap (iSFP). The iSFP must outline a step-by-step refurbishment programme that will achieve at least energy standard EH55 by 2035 at the latest once all measures have been implemented. The requirements of the BEG EM apply to listed buildings. Further information can be found under "Questions & Answers".
- The measures are linked to funding from the "Guidelines for Federal Funding for Efficient Buildings - Individual Measures (BEG EM)". FKG funding is only possible if the same measures have been successfully subsidised by the federal government (BEG EM).
- Applications can only be submitted for an entire building, not for individual residential units.
- Funding under the FKG is excluded if the "Climate Speed Bonus" and/or the "Income Bonus" is applied for for at least one flat in the building as part of the BEG EM (exception: additional funding for heat pumps from June 2025).
Required documents
No documents are required when submitting the application.
After completion of the construction project(s), the following documents must be uploaded. In the funding portal, uploading these documents is called "Submit proof of use":
if the application is to be submitted by an authorised person representing the applicant, the power of attorney form must be submitted.
- Proof of authorisation to apply. Example: A private individual submitting the application themselves must upload their ID. For WEG see subpage WEG.
- Confirmation of disbursement from KfW Bank or notice of assessment of the federal subsidy
- Confirmation after implementation (BnD) or technical project certificate (TPN)
- Invoices for the expenditure incurred in accordance with the BnD or assessment notice
- Heating replacement declaration form
- Consultancy documents "My refurbishment roadmap" and "Implementation guide for my measures"
- for listed buildings: evidence of the relevant listed building requirements and the listed building licence
The heating replacement checklist summarises the documents to be submitted.
Questions & Answers
the application authorisation applies to owners and equivalent persons (e.g. leaseholders, persons entitled to usufruct) of the property, part of the property, building or part of the building on or in which the measure is to be implemented, as well as to contractors.
The application is submitted by a representative of the WEG. the "applicant" is the WEG itself. The WEG bears the costs. The invoice must be issued to the WEG. The resolution of the WEG stating that all flat owners waive the right to apply for the "climate speed bonus" and the "income bonus" in accordance with BEG EM must be submitted. You can find detailed information on the WEG subpage
As an exception, the conclusion of supply and service contracts before the application is submitted is not detrimental to funding if a condition precedent or condition subsequent is agreed that expressly relates to the reservation of funding from the FKG of the Department for Climate and Environmental Protection of the City of Munich.
Supply and service contracts with a condition precedent or condition subsequent must be submitted unsolicited with proof of utilisation.
The construction measures must be realised after the application has been submitted.
Suggested wording can be found in the information sheet on conditions precedent or conditions subsequent.
yes, a building-specific energy consultation in the form of an iSFP must be available at the time the FKG application is submitted.
According to the FKG Guideline of 7 May 2024, a building-specific energy consultation in the form of an iSFP must be available at the time of the submitted application that meets the following requirements
- Presentation of a step-by-step refurbishment.
- Preparation of an energy-efficient refurbishment concept in which one of the following energy standards (target energy standard) is achieved by 2035 at the latest EH 55, EH 55 EE, EH 55 NH, EH 40, EH 40 EE, EH 40 NH in accordance with the BEG-WG. Note: For listed buildings, the energy standard "Denkmal", "Denkmal EE" or "Denkmal NH" applies in deviation from the above-mentioned energy standards.
- The measure applied for in the FKG must be included in the iSFP.
An originally created iSFP that does not contain the above-mentioned requirements can be supplemented or adapted by an EEE so that the requirements are met.
The iSFP does not have to be submitted together with the proof of use, but the energy consultant confirms with the "Form declaration of individual measures - efficiency measures" that it is available and fulfils the requirements of the FKG.
The following energy consulting reports are considered iSFPs in the FKG:
- All iSFPs that were created from 19 January 2024 or will be created in the future and meet the above criteria
- Energy consultant reports that were applied for and funded as part of the "Energy-related refurbishment consultation" in the FKG between 20 July 2022 and 18 January 2024
- "Energy-related refurbishment consultations" in the FKG that were rejected for formal reasons (e.g. order before application), where the energy consultation report fulfils the above requirements.
- Energy consulting reports for "Energy-related refurbishment consulting" that were applied for in the FKG but not funded for reasons of content can be supplemented or adapted by an EEE so that they fulfil the above-mentioned requirements.
- The iSFP must not have been created before 1 November 2020. (Entry into force of the Building Energy Act)
- An ESPD that was originally created and does not contain the above-mentioned requirements can be supplemented or adapted by an ESPD so that the requirements are met
funding applications that were submitted to the federal government in accordance with the BEG EM guideline dated 9 December 2022 and whose application date is between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2023 will be granted the opportunity to submit a funding application for FKG-EM as a gesture of goodwill. Here too, the prerequisite is that no order has yet been placed for the measure.
the City of Munich does not recommend individual energy consultants. The "Deutsche Energie-Agentur", with its list of experts, is a neutral accreditation body. In Bavaria, the "Bayerische Architektenkammer", the "Bayerische-Ingenieurkammer-Bau" and the "GIH e.V.", the association of building energy consultants in Bavaria, also offer lists of energy consultants.
Similar to the regulations for BEG funding, the funding principle of "application before commission" does not have to be adhered to for the bonus measure "Specialist energy planning and construction supervision for BEG-linked measures". This means that specialist planning services may be commissioned before the application is submitted in the FKG. This applies to proof of use that is checked from 6 September 2024. The main measure may still not be commissioned before the application is submitted.
A breach of the funding principle "application before commission" for the main measure will result in the simultaneous rejection of the bonus measure.
If no energy efficiency expert was involved in the application for federal funding, then no "technical project certificate (TPN)" needs to be submitted. In this case, the "Specialist contractor declaration for heat generation systems - heating technology" submitted to the BEG is sufficient. In this case, the applicant may also sign the "Declaration on heating replacement" form.
- Solar thermal systems as well as building networks and connection to heating networks::
Funding is not available if heat generators based on fossil fuels (e.g. heating oil, natural gas, coal) or gaseous or liquid biomass or hydrogen are newly installed. - Heat pumps:
Funding is excluded if heat generators based on fossil fuels (e.g. heating oil, natural gas, coal), gaseous or liquid biomass or hydrogen are used.
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