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Funding advice
Are you investing or upgrading? Or developing something further? We take care of your application from the first idea to the final claim with the funding body — so you can focus on your project, not on forms. Our funding advice covers German funding programmes and is available for projects located in Germany only.
750+ funding applications supported · over 30 years of hands-on experience with our own plants
Funding check
What best describes your project? Choose your case — and you’ll see right away whether and where an application could pay off for you. Honestly: if nothing fits, we’ll tell you that too.
Good news: there are suitable programmes for existing biogas plants. Depending on the project, the manure investment funding (FNR) or energy-efficiency programmes may apply. We check free of charge what fits you — and then take care of the complete application.
Brewery, dairy, galvanising plant or another business: efficient plant technology, controls, electrification and waste-heat recovery are funded. Important: the application must be submitted before you place any orders. Let’s talk early.
For heating networks, the Federal Funding for Efficient Heating Networks (BEW) may apply; for heating networks and buffer storage also funding under the KWKG (Combined Heat and Power Act). From the feasibility study to implementation, we guide your project through funding and approval.
If you develop, tinker or improve processes, you can recover part of your development costs through the research allowance (Forschungszulage) — in some cases retroactively. We’re happy to check that with you.
We advise biogas plants and businesses. For your home, you are better off with a local energy consultant or the programmes for residential buildings.
Tell us in two sentences what you’re planning — we’ll tell you honestly whether we know a suitable programme or who can help you better.
The funding check is a first orientation, not a binding funding commitment. We’re happy to give you a precise assessment in person — free of charge and without obligation.
Where we are at home
We don’t advise on everything. Instead, we know our programmes from over 750 supported applications — with the technical understanding of an engineering firm.
You are investing in your plant — in efficiency, new technology or the digestion of manure.
Manure investment funding (FNR)
Energy-efficiency measures at the plant
For businesses in all sectors. It’s about energy efficiency — energy-efficient plants and process optimisation — but also resource efficiency. Whether brewery, dairy, galvanising plant or something completely different: get in touch.
You are planning, expanding or decarbonising a heating network or building a buffer storage tank — we guide you through the funding.
Federal Funding for Efficient Heating Networks (BEW)
KWKG funding for buffer storage and heating networks
You like trying things out and developing products or processes further? Then let’s talk about how you can refinance your development work with the research allowance.
From the application text to the proof
Can also be checked retroactively for ongoing projects
Alongside our four funding areas, we handle other programmes, for example from the FNR on energy efficiency in agriculture. New ones keep being added. Your programme isn’t listed? Just ask us.
What you get
We take care of your entire application. You bring your project, we take care of the rest.
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We check which programme fits your project — and tell you honestly if none does.
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We prepare and submit the application — technically well-founded, exactly as the funding body needs it.
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While you implement, we keep deadlines, evidence and queries from the funding body under control.
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We settle your project with the funding body — until the money is in your account.
Why us
We come from practice: we have been designing and building plants ourselves for over 30 years — and we first submitted funding applications for our own projects. We are not consultants who have never implemented anything themselves. We have had funding consultants ourselves. We know what it feels like to know more than your own consultant. That’s exactly why we do it differently.
From practice
We built ourselves and submitted our own applications before advising others.
750+ applications
supported from the idea to the final claim.
Funding that makes sense
We only recommend what fits your project — not the other way round.
Honest assessment
If an application isn’t worth it, we’ll tell you. Beforehand.
More than funding
We are engineers first. If you are building or expanding a biogas plant, we support you from the calculation to stable full load — including the right funding.
Honest pre-selection
We say openly what we are the right partner for — and what we are not. That saves you time.
you are investing with your biogas plant or as a business — in plant technology, efficiency, a heating network or development.
you want to hand over the entire application — from the idea to the final claim.
you want to know before applying whether it’s worth it at all.
you want to take funding just because it exists. With us, the project has to make sense — the funding comes on top, not the other way round.
you are looking for a pure funding consultant. We are an engineering firm with hands-on experience.
you are looking for a funding consultant to whom you first have to explain your business. We know that ourselves — and that’s exactly why we do it differently.
you only want to hear that everything will be funded. We tell you honestly what is possible and what isn’t — even when it’s uncomfortable.
Next step
Tell us briefly what you are planning — we’ll get back to you with an honest first assessment of whether and which funding is available for you.
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