BN - Is the roof of my house or company building suitable for a photovoltaic system or a solar thermal system? This question can now be answered quickly and conveniently online with the help of the new solar roof cadastre of the city of Bonn. In a building-specific map display, a coloured marker indicates whether and to what extent a roof is suitable for energy generation by means of solar power. Step by step, further information, for example on the economic efficiency, can be retrieved via a yield calculator.
The suitability of the roofs of all 129,000 buildings in the city for solar energy generation was recalculated using the latest, improved data. For this purpose, elevation grid data was used, which was determined by the district government of Cologne by means of laser scanning in spring 2016. Compared to the previous version from 2010, the new Bonn solar roof cadastre features, among other things, a fourfold higher resolution and a more differentiated designation of the roof areas.
The suitability of the roof surfaces for electricity generation via photovoltaic systems as well as for domestic water heating and, for the first time, also for supporting building heating via solar thermal collectors was calculated. The calculations also took into account the current changes in the framework conditions with regard to feed-in tariffs and self-consumption of generated solar power.
How the application works
In the city map, the installable system size and many additional data such as yields and savings potentials can be displayed for each building. In a newly developed yield calculator, costs and yields can be calculated and compared by entering additional user-specific information such as electricity consumption or household size. In this way, every owner can quickly gain an overview of the suitability of his or her building for the use of solar energy. Detailed instructions are available at www.bonn.de/...solardachkataster.php.
The City of Bonn points out that the information from the solar roof cadastre is an initial non-binding assessment. Essential prerequisites for a decision to build a system, such as the condition of the roof or the static suitability, can only be clarified by suitable specialist companies or qualified consulting organisations. Information on this can be found on the website of the solar roof register.
Bonn roofs have potential
According to the potential analysis of the solar roof cadastre, 6,800,000 square metres in Bonn are suitable for solar power generation. This corresponds to about the size of 950 football fields. Approximately 800,000 megawatt hours of electricity could be generated on this area. This could cover about 50 percent of the total electricity consumption in Bonn. For solar thermal energy, the result of the potential analysis shows 88,461 buildings in Bonn that could be used for this form of energy generation. This corresponds to about 70 percent of the buildings in Bonn.
A socially responsible coal phase-out is feasible and affordable, according to a report commissioned by ver.di.
"We expect that in none of the scenarios, even at peak times around 2030, will annual costs of more than 250 million euros be incurred for early retirement, but also for retraining and other career-related measures," explained ver.di Federal Executive Board member Andreas Scheidt.
The Enervis report commissioned by ver.di can be downloaded here as a PDF:
Neighbourhoods with old buildings have a reputation for lively urbanity and are therefore extremely popular with residents. But new buildings can also develop this charm, as the large number of successful projects in this volume of the best of DETAIL series shows. Ultimately, it is a question of the mix of residential and commercial uses, of open spaces and offers for older and younger residents of different nationalities and different social structures: even in times of an increasingly digitally networked society, urbanity is expressed not least through diversity. In addition to surprising theses on high-density living, this publication presents refreshingly inviting project examples from all over the world that whet the appetite for life in the city.
* Minimise, optimise, densify: Making living economical
* Co-operatives: Housing of the future?
* Spatial concepts for the digital society
* Create qualities through flexible diversity
May 2017
200 pages with numerous illustrations
Format 21 x 29.7 cm
bilingual edition (German/English)
Softcover (Flexcover)
ISBN: 978-3-95553-359-5
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