The bank will only accept applications received by tomorrow (5 October) if there are still enough funds left for this year. The programme will then start again in 2017, but with a slightly lower subsidy.

Germany on 1 March had started the new €30m ($33.4m) three-year programme in order to strengthen grid services of solar plants and help cost reduction. It was following up on an earlier programme that between 2013 and 2015 had supported around 19,000 domestic storage systems with about €60m.

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