Insufficient and unstandardised state-funded soft loan and investment programmes for RES-E projects in Hungary

There are state funded investment-support programmes in Hungary, some of which are partially realised with EU funds. While these support the diffusion of solar PV, they also carry market distorting effects. The government opens calls on an ad hoc basis and the window during which investors can apply varies. This makes the general framework unpredictable. On the other hand, there have been large-scale investment support programmes, where the opposite has been the case, meaning that the government announced support for PV projects months in advance, which led many investors to put off their investments until they could access additional funds. This leads to a volatile framework that introduces an element of uncertainty.