Explained in just under 10 min. The video is from April 2019 and shows two larger aquaponics facilities in Berlin.
Mietersonne Kaulsdorf, Germany's largest tenant power project with almost 3.4 megawatts (MW) of capacity, is being built by Berliner Stadtwerke for the Berlin housing association berlinovo in Marzahn-Hellersdorf. Tenants of 4,300 apartments will be able to benefit from the green electricity generated directly on their roofs.
The dimensions of the project, consisting of 39 solar systems on one hundred residential buildings in the district between Wuhletal and Hellersdorfer Strasse, speak for themselves: a total of 27,000 m² are covered with modules, which corresponds to 3.8 times the area of a football pitch. The yield is estimated at around 2.9 million kilowatt hours per year, which is equivalent to the entire electricity requirements of 1,200 two-person households. This means that approx. 1,580 tons of CO2-emissions were avoided. Berliner Stadtwerke is investing around €3.75 million in this project. This year, 2.0 MW of the total 3.4 MW will be installed, around 60 percent of which have already been installed on the roofs since May. A further 1.4 MW is to follow in 2020 and 2021.
Photos: Pritzkuleit
"Berlin is catching up," says Berlin's energy senator Ramona Pop. "We still have a lot of space on our roofs that we can use to work sustainably and efficiently for the energy transition here in the city. Until the federal government finally meets the requirements of the urban energy transition, we cannot wait, after all, the climate crisis is not waiting either. We are working at full speed to expand solar energy in Berlin. With the Mietersonne project, we are taking the biggest step on this path so far."
Finance Senator Dr. Matthias Kollatz explains: "In order to achieve Berlin's ambitious climate protection goals, we must double the speed of the energy transition. Relying on private initiatives alone is not enough. The commitment of the public sector is required. This example of municipal cooperation is exemplary - and an important driver in a very central climate protection area."
"We built the largest part of the facility this year," says Stadtwerke Managing Director Dr. Kerstin Busch. "Important for the success of the project is a high level of acceptance among the tenants, which we are also promoting on site with our own customer center at the Spree Center, among other things." Including the Mietersonne Kaulsdorf project, Stadtwerke will install around 4 MWp on Berlin roofs this year.
"Thanks to the cooperation with Berliner Stadtwerke, berlinovo tenants in the Kaulsdorf district will in future be able to obtain cheap local and clean electricity 365 days a year. At the same time, we are making the plat-ten buildings fit for the future and helping to achieve Berlin's climate targets," emphasises Alf Aleithe, Managing Director of berlinovo.
Berliner Stadtwerke is a subsidiary of Berliner Wasserbetriebe. They are committed to consumer-oriented energy generation and environmentally friendly supply concepts based on renewable energies. To date, Berliner Stadtwerke has invested €30.4 million in renewable energies, in Berlin primarily in new solar power plants in the districts. This means they have built more than 40 percent of the solar capacity installed in Berlin since 2016. Information about and registration for the environmentally friendly "berlinStrom" at www.berlinerstadtwerke.de
berlinovo was formed in 2012 from BIH Berliner Immobilien Holding GmbH, founded in 2006, and its subsidiaries. berlinovo is an investment of the State of Berlin. The portfolio includes 246 properties, one of which is abroad. Nationwide, berlinovo manages 23,500 rental units with a total rental area of 2.55 million m² and an annual target rent of over €249.0 million. These include around 15,200 apartments, 6,500 furnished apartments and 1,800 commercial units (as of 31 December 2018). berlinovo employs around 340 people.
Source: PM on 10/16/2019
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Stock, DE-News, Renewable, Climate protection, Communities, Tenant electricity, Sustainable management, News Blog Berlin, PV, Quarters, Settlements, City, Environmental policy, Urban production, Housing policy, Ecology
How building is revolutionized
dated 09/27/2018 - 28:49 min.
www.zdf.de/gesellschaft/plan-b/plan-b-das-haus-von-morgen-100.html
(unfortunately no longer online; 15.2.2021)
Here is another text description:
www.youtv.de/tv-sendungen/3290827-plan-b-das-haus-von-morgen
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Building materials / Construction, DE-News, Movies, Movies 11 to 45 Min, Wood construction, Climate protection, Media, News Blog Baden-Württemberg, Resource efficiency, Environmental policy, Ecology
The federal and state governments have jointly developed a new structure for urban development funding from 2020: A total of €790 million will be available in three (instead of the previous six) concentrated urban development funding programmes. In addition to the funding requirement of climate change/climate adaptation, including urban greening, the possibility of stronger inter-municipal cooperation has also been added.
A further 200 million euros are available in the "Social Integration in the Neighbourhood" investment pact. This will enable the municipalities to press ahead with the expansion and refurbishment of their social infrastructure.
Federal Minister of the Interior Seehofer signed the corresponding administrative agreements today. Federal funding for urban development and social integration will thus be stabilised at a high level.
Federal Minister of the Interior Seehofer: "We are streamlining our funding structure. This will make it easier for cities and municipalities to implement their projects. In addition, climate protection will become a funding requirement. Urban development funding without climate protection will no longer exist in the future."
The following federal-state urban development programs are available for the 2020 funding year:
The administrative agreements will enter into force as soon as all federal states have countersigned.
The urban development funding provided by the federal and state governments triggers considerable follow-up investments. For the year 2020, it is assumed that the total investment volume triggered by the funding will be around 12 billion euros, and the expected gross value added will be around 14 billion euros. The subsidies also support the small and medium-sized local economy to a large extent: approx. 36 percent of the expected construction volume remains in the municipality itself, another approx. 48 percent in the region with a radius of 50 km. The construction industry benefits from this with 71 percent of the implemented investment funds.
Source: PM of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, for building and homeland (BMI) from 19.12.2019
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DE-News, Funding, Quarters, Settlements, Housing policy
The city of Frankfurt is initiating the largest urban development project of recent decades: In the northwest, 550 hectares of current agricultural land between the Frankfurt districts of Niederursel and Praunheim and the neighboring towns of Steinbach and Oberursel are to be turned into a neighborhood with up to 11,400 apartments.
It will be interesting to see whether sustainability criteria will play a role in the new district. Frankfurt is well positioned in the energy sector, but in the other areas I see a need to catch up compared to other municipalities.
Further information on the construction site:
www.immobilien-zeitung.de/1000043938/frankfurt-will-neuen-stadtteil-auf-550-ha-bauen
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News Blog Hesse, Quarters, Settlements, XXL settlements
