Solar subsidies in Germany
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Discover the new world of energy generation and protect the environment at the same time - with the current subsidy programs for solar systems, balcony power plants and solar storage in Germany. Benefit from numerous state and regional subsidies and generate your own clean energy. Improve your living quality, lower your energy costs and protect the environment. Discover the many different subsidy programs now and secure your share in the future of energy production!
Regional grants for private balcony power plants
The grant amount depends on the regional guidelines and can change at any time. You must apply for the grant yourself, please inquire directly with the city administration.
Baden-Württemberg
- Bühl: 300€ per plant up to 600 Watt
- Freiburg: 200€ lump sum
- Friedrichshafen: 300€ per household with min. 300 Watt
- Friolzheim: 100€ per household up to 600 Watt maximum power
- Heidelberg: up to 750€ - Heidelberg-Pass(+) holders: Possibly almost the full cost of the balcony module, only own contribution of 50€, up to 600 Watt
- Kornwestheim: 200€ per household up to 600 Watt
- Lörrach: 200€ lump sum per household up to 600 watt maximum power
- Ludwigsburg: max. 300€, for recipients of the LudwigsburgCard up to 800€.
- Neubulach: 300 Watt peak system / 50€ // 600 Watt peak system / 100€
- Schwaikheim: 200€ per household
- Stuttgart: 100€ lump sum per plant
- Ulm: 250€ per housing unit up to 600 watts
- Weinheim: 50€ per module, max. 2 modules (max. total power 600 Watt)
Bavaria
- Bubenreuth: 25% of the acquisition costs, max. 250€ up to 600 Watt
- Buckenhof: 50€ per 100 watt peak, max. 150€
- Diessen: 100€ per household, up to 600 Watt
- Erlangen: 50€ per 100 Watt peak, max. 300€ (up to 600 Watt)
- Forchheim100€ (gross) per kWp or part thereof max. 400€ (gross) per building/residential unit up to 3.9 kWp
- Fürth: up to 160€ (110€ for installation of a bidirectional meter, 50€ for purchase costs of a plug-in PV system for electricity customers of infra)
- Großenseebach: 50€ / housing unit, up to 600 watts
- Günzburg: 100€ lump sum per plant
- Höchstadt: 50€ / plant and housing unit, up to 600 Watt
- Ingolstadt: 200€ / system, min.300 Watt - 600 Watt
- Marolffstein: 50€ per 100 Wp, max. 200€ per applicant
- Munich: 0,4€ per Wp, up to 600Wp per housing unit, but maximum 50% of the eligible investment costs, up to 600 Watt
- Moosburg: 50% of the net acquisition costs, max. 200€ per plant
- Peiting: 120€ per unit, up to 600 Watt
- Poing25% of the acquisition costs, but max. 250€.
- Spardorf: 50€ per 100 Watt peak, max. 200€
- Unterschleissheim: 25% of the acquisition costs, max. 200€, up to 600 Watt
- Vilseck: 100€ / 300 Watt; 150€ / 600 Watt
- Weilheim in Upper Bavaria: 25% of the gross acquisition costs, max. 200€, up to 600 Watt
- Würzburg: 25% of the gross acquisition costs, max. 200€, up to 600 Watt
Berlin
Max. 500€ per plant per apartment (max. 14.000 cases)
Brandenburg
Currently we are not aware of any subsidies for balcony power plants in Brandenburg.
Bremen
We are not currently aware of any balcony power plant grants in Bremen.
Hamburg
Currently we are not aware of any subsidies for balcony power plants in Hamburg.
Hesse
- Darmstadt200€ lump sum for one standard module (300 Watt) 400€ lump sum for two standard modules (2x 300 Watt) max. 50% of purchase and installation costs
- Lampertheim: Subsidy 60%, max. 500 €
- Marburg-Biedenkopf: 100€ per plant, up to 600 Watt
- Mörfelden-Walldorf: Grant from 200€
- Main-Taunus-Kreis: 100€ flat per apartment, up to 600 watts
- Nidda: 200€, max. 30% of the purchase costs per household, 1-2 systems can be financed, up to 600 Watt
- Wiesbaden: 300€ - 400€ between 3,0 - 6,0 kW
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
max. 500€ / plant and household
Lower Saxony
- Brunswick: up to 400 Watt 250€ / up to 600 Watt 400€
- Friesoythe: 200€ / household, up to 600 Watt
- Göttingen: 180€ lump sum per plant
- Jever: 120€ / plants. max. 2 plants / applicant are promoted
- Lüneburg: 150€ + 30% of the investment costs / plant
North Rhine-Westphalia
- Aachen: 300€ lump sum. 150 - 600 Volt-Ampere
- Ahaus: 50% of the eligible costs up to max. 200€, up to 600 Watt
- Bönen: 100€ per housing unit
- Bonn: 50€ for 1 module, 100€ for 2 modules up to 600 Watt
- Borgentreich: 100€ lump sum per plant (per household)
- Bottrop: 100€ per household, up to 600 watts
- Castrop-Rauxel: 100€ per apartment
- Düsseldorf: 50% of the eligible costs, maximum 400€, up to 600 Watt
- Freudenberg: 150€ / plant
- Fröndenberg: 100€ per module, max. 200€, up to 600 Watt peak
- Gelsenkirchen: flat rate 100€, up to 600 Watt
- Gladbeck: 150€ / household
- Gronau: 250€ / module, max. 2 modules, max. 60% of the acquisition costs, up to 600 Watt
- Halver: 100€ / plant / household, up to 600 watts
- Hamm: 200€ lump sum per plant, up to 600 Watt
- Hiddenhausen: Plug-in power generation modules (150€ lump sum) Plug-in power generation modules with storage (300€ lump sum) up to 600 Watt
- Kamp-Lintfort: 100€ per apartment, up to 600 watts
- Kirchlengern: 300€ per plant, up to 600 Volt-Ampere
- Cologne: 200€ per plant, up to 600 Watt
- Wages: 150€ / household, up to 600 watts
- Langenfeld: 200€ per unit, up to 600 Watt
- Lüdenscheid: 500€ / plant, up to 600 watts
- Oberhausen: 100€ per apartment, up to 600 watts
- Oelde: 30% of the purchase price including VAT, max. 200€.
- Olsberg: 200€ lump sum per plant, up to 600 Watt
- Rheinberg: 100€ per apartment, up to 600 watts
- Rheinisch-Bergischer-KreisPhotovoltaic systems with a total price of less than €10,000 (e.g. plug-in solar systems) are subsidized with 10 percent of the eligible expenses.
- Rietberg: 80€ per solar module, max. 2 modules per household
- Solingen: 300€ per solar system or 150€ per module
- Troisdorf: 150€ / plant, up to 600 Watt
- Voerde on the Lower Rhine: 100€ per apartment, up to 600 watts
- Wesel: 50% of the proven costs, max. 200€, up to 600 Watt
- Winterberg: 250€ / plant / household, up to 600 watts
- Wickede (Ruhr): Plug-in power generation modules (150€ lump sum) Plug-in power generation modules with storage (300€ lump sum)
- Willich: 250€ housing unit, 0,4 - 0,6 kWh
Rhineland-Palatinate
- Koblenz: 70€ per module (max. 2 modules)
- Pirmasens: 75€ for systems up to max. 325 Watt ; 150€ for systems up to 600 Watt
- Urmitz: 100€ / module, max. 200€, up to 600 Watt
Saarland
We are not currently aware of any subsidies in Saarland.
Saxony
Currently, we are not aware of any subsidies in Saxony.
Saxony-Anhalt
Currently, we are not aware of any subsidies in Saxony-Anhalt.
Schleswig-Holstein
- Kiel: 100€ lump sum per plant
- Lübeck: 200€ / household, up to 600 Watt
Thuringia
We are not currently aware of any subsidies in Thuringia.