KfW Consortium Loan Sustainable Transformation
The KfW Consortium Loan for Sustainable Transformation offers companies and project companies flexible loans for ambitious, sustainable, and transformative initiatives aimed at reducing, avoiding, and eliminating greenhouse gas emissions. KfW assumes up to 50% of the financing risk (€7.5–100 million risk share). Applications can be submitted at any time through the house bank.
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Grant criteria
Funding objective
Corporate and project financing of investments, working capital, and ancillary costs for the construction, acquisition, and modernization of eligible facilities, as well as the alignment of business models with the environmental objectives defined in the EU Taxonomy to reduce, avoid, and eliminate greenhouse gas emissions.
Eligible expenses
- Investment costs
- Operating resources
- Incidental costs
- Planning and implementation support
- Expert reports and certificates
Non-eligible expenses
- Refinancing
- Additional funding for already completed projects
Eligible to apply
- Companies
Funding requirements
- Group turnover up to 5 billion euros
- Majority privately owned
- Compliance with the technical criteria of the EU Taxonomy (Article 9 of Regulation EU 2020/852)
- Fulfillment of environmental and social legal requirements in the investment country
- Foreign companies only for projects in Germany
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Description
KfW Consortium Loan for Sustainable Transformation offers companies and project companies in Germany a flexible loan solution to finance ambitious climate protection and transformation projects. It supports investment costs, working capital, and incidental expenses for the construction, acquisition, or modernization of eligible facilities – ranging from climate-friendly production processes to energy supply infrastructure and sustainable mobility concepts to green IT solutions. The program is aligned with the environmental objectives of the EU Taxonomy and promotes measures to reduce, avoid, and eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. KfW assumes up to 50% of the default risk and participates with a risk share of a minimum of €7.5 million up to a maximum of €100 million per project. Applications can be submitted year-round through the house bank and are aimed at domestic and foreign companies with group revenues of up to €5 billion, predominantly privately owned.
A prerequisite for funding is compliance with technical criteria according to Article 9 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852 as well as compatibility with the KfW exclusion list and the Paris-compatible sector guidelines. Foreign companies are only permitted to implement projects in Germany and must comply with applicable environmental and social standards. Refinancing or follow-up financing of already completed projects is excluded. Eligible expenses include, in addition to asset acquisitions and working capital, planning and implementation support as well as necessary expert reports and certifications. The consortium structure creates a balanced risk distribution between KfW and other financing partners, enabling attractive conditions, variable terms, and individually tailored financing models.