Key legal question
Whether the repayment order for CHF 100,000 was lawful despite the project's delayed completion
Extracted holding
The repayment condition was not met because the delay was caused by justified financing difficulties and project changes accepted as plausible by the authority.
Extracted reasoning
The financing of the second phase via a federal feed-in tariff had been part of the project basis known to the grant authority. When that financing failed for unforeseeable reasons, and the authority then invited a detailed project-change application, it was arbitrary to later deny that these were justified reasons for delay.