1:46 min., published on 22.02.2018
Project Info: http://sdg21.eu/db/wohnen-am-dantebad
Keywords: Movies, Movies < 4 Min, Wood construction, News Blog Bavaria
1:46 min., published on 22.02.2018
Project Info: http://sdg21.eu/db/wohnen-am-dantebad
The renovation project "Efficiency House Plus in Old Buildings" shows how two dilapidated rows of houses from the 1930s can be brought up to plus-energy standards - and in some cases that good architecture can be created in the process.
Location: Pfuhler Straße 4-8 and 10-14, D-89231 Neu-Ulm
Architects: Werner Sobek Stuttgart and o5 architekten bda - raab hafke lang
Builder: NUWOG housing company of the city of Neu-Ulm
Further information: DETAIL-Article "Double experiment: Two residential building renovations in Neu-Ulm." by Jakob Schoof, published online on
Keywords:
Stock, Renewable, Climate protection, News Blog Bavaria, PlusEnergy house/settlement
Dieter Janecek, Spokesperson for Industrial Policy and the Digital Economy, and Dr. Bettina Hoffmann, Spokesperson for Environmental Policy and Environmental Health, comment on today's cabinet meeting and the planned discussion of the draft German Resource Efficiency Programme III (ProgRess III):
With ProgRess III, the German government is treading water. Two resource efficiency programmes of the Federal Government could not prevent the German consumption of raw materials from continuing to rise. It is foreseeable that the third resource programme of the Federal Government will not change this situation either. ProgRess III also remains a longish hodgepodge of plans, announcements and test orders.
The majority of the measures are limited to non-binding information and advisory instruments. In addition, reference is made in some cases to ongoing processes or measures are listed which the Federal Government is obliged to take in any case, for example with regard to the implementation of EU directives. There is a lack of concrete legislative initiatives and funding programmes backed by substantial financial resources.
German industry plays a central role in the consumption of metallic raw materials worldwide. For aluminium and copper, for example, it is the third largest consumer. Germany's responsibility is correspondingly great. Unfortunately, it remains open by how much the increase in raw material consumption is to be reduced nationally and at the European level. Without a concrete reduction target, however, it is difficult to trace or verify a path.
In the past, the pure focus on raw material efficiency led to rebound effects. We therefore urgently need a genuine raw materials turnaround that leads not only to a relative but also to an absolute reduction in resource consumption. The Greens already called for a reduction in resource consumption by a factor of 10 by 2050 in their motion on a raw materials turnaround last year.
In addition, the Greens advocate the transfer of the resource efficiency programme into an action plan for the circular economy. This should include, among other things, legally anchored waste reduction targets and an extension of producer responsibility to product groups such as building materials, furniture and textiles.
Source: PM from 17.6.2020
Keywords:
Building materials / Construction, DE-News, Faktor X / ResScore, Resource efficiency, City, Environmental policy
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE presented the fourth edition of their study on the cost price of electricity from renewable sources on March 20, 2018. In it, they analyze current costs and forecast further developments based on technology-specific learning rates and market scenarios up to the year 2035. "The cost forecasts of the previous studies have been confirmed.
The cost price of electricity from renewable energies is falling continuously and is no longer an obstacle to CO₂-free electricity generation. Newly constructed photovoltaic plants and onshore wind turbines at favourable locations are already cheaper than fossil-fuel power plants, and this trend will increase significantly by 2035," says project manager Dr Christoph Kost.
The ever-improving competitive position of renewables is leading to new applications and rapidly growing markets that are no longer dependent on subsidies. On the other hand, the full-load hours of conventional power plants continue to decline due to a higher share of renewables, which drives up their costs. In addition, fuel and CO2-certificate prices. "It can be assumed that not necessarily the cheapest conventional form of generation will exist on the market to complement the fluctuating renewables, but the one that can show a high flexibility in terms of start-up and shut-down variability, i.e. preferably power plants based on natural gas", says Dr. Christoph Kost.
Currently, PV systems achieve electricity production costs of between 3.71 and 11.54 € cents/kWh, depending on the system type and global radiation - which in Germany is between 950 and 1,300 kWh/(m²a). The specific system costs are between €600 and €1,400/kWp, depending on the system type.
Keywords:
Construction and operating costs, Renewable, Climate protection, Media, Tenant electricity, New books and studies, PV, PlusEnergy house/settlement
On 15 March, the Mayors' Dialogue "Sustainable City" developed impulses for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in German municipalities. The mayors focused on the contributions of municipalities to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11 "Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable".
The mayors of Augsburg, Bonn, Bottrop, Darmstadt, Delitzsch, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Essen, Frankfurt am Main, Freiburg, Friedrichshafen, Hanover, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Kassel, Constance, Leipzig, Lörrach, Ludwigsburg, Lüneburg, Munich, Münster, Norderstedt, Nuremberg, Osnabrück, Ravensburg, Rheine, Tübingen and Wernigerode have signed the statement so far.
Resolution of the Lord Mayor's Sustainable City Dialogue of 15 March 2017:
https://www.nachhaltigkeitsrat.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/20170330_Positionspapier_OB-Dialog-1.pdf
Link
https://www.nachhaltigkeitsrat.de/projekte/dialog-nachhaltige-stadt/
Keywords:
DE-News, Communities, SDG 2030, City, Environmental policy