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planning, assistance with tendering and incoming proposals, evaluation, control
of
the
construction
work
and
inspection,
approval
and
evaluation
of
the
refurbishment.
The better the achieved energy efficiency level of the building, the better the
fund, either through lower interest rates or through larger grants that do not have to
be paid back (Bigalke et al.
2012
).
Programme 430
Since 2013, within the programme 430 for individual measures, the households
can get a grant that covers up to 10 % of the investment costs with a maximum of
5,000 euros. For an energy efficient refurbishment of the entire building, house-
holds can get a grant of up to 18,750 euros depending on which KfW standard was
achieved with the renovation activity (SWR
2012
).
Programme 151 + 152
The KfW additionally offers soft loans for comprehensive building measures. In
programme 151, building refurbishments achieving an 'efficiency house standard'
get special conditions for loans up to 75,000 euros per dwelling and, depending on
the achieved standard, get an additional redemption grant of varying sizes up to
12.5 %. Also, for individual measures, the KfW offers loans with low interest rates
of up to 50,000 euros (programme 152).
Programme 431
Within the programme 431, households can get a grant that covers up to 50 % and
a maximum of 4,000 euros of the costs for a professional supervision of a refur-
bishment activity.
So far, the KfW does not provide incentives for KfW 'efficiency house 40'
refurbishments. The most ambitious refurbishments that are promoted by the KfW
are refurbishments to the standard 'efficiency house 55'. The first year of incen-
tives for this building standard was in 2010. The KfW statistics (KFW
2012
)of
recent years show that more than 400 of such buildings are directly supported by
the KfW per year. But also other high-performance standards such as the efficiency
Figure
8
shows that even if the total number of promoted refurbishments
decreased in the period 2010-3.Q 2012, the specific share of 'efficiency house 55'
has increased from about 1.7 % in 2009 to about 10 % in 2012. However, no
refurbishments have yet achieved the efficiency house 40 standard yet and it is still
not clear whether the KfW will accept this standard into its programme in 2013.
