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Project Info: http://sdg21.eu/db/wohnen-am-dantebad
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A new approach to storing surplus wind power is compressed air storage. The energy could be stored in the form of compressed air in underground caverns. Energy reporter Lars Tepel visits researchers at DLR in Stuttgart.
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100% EEs, CO2-neutral, DE-News, Energy storage, Renewable, Movies, Movies < 4 Min, Research, Electricity storage
Climate-active municipalities and regions wanted! The "Municipal Climate Protection" competition, which has been running since 2009, is now called the "Climate Active Municipality" competition and will run from January to the end of March 2016.
© Difu /Anna Jolk
The new name of the nationwide competition emphasises the comprehensive commitment of local authorities to tackling climate change. We are looking for cities, municipalities and districts as well as regions in which topics such as climate-friendly construction and renovation, climate adaptation, climate-friendly mobility, sufficiency or transnational climate activities play a role. We are looking for successfully realised and effective climate projects.
Together with the Federal Ministry for the Environment, the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu) organises the annual "Climate Active Municipality" competition (until 2015 the "Municipal Climate Protection" competition). Co-operation partners: German Association of Cities, German Association of Counties and German Association of Towns and Municipalities.
The nationwide competition gives municipalities and regions the opportunity to present their successfully realised climate projects to a broad public and serve as a good example for others. To this end, we support the winners in publicising their award-winning projects. Among other things, the winning projects are presented as a film and in a competition documentary. The winners of the "Climate Active Municipality 2016" competition will be presented at the Municipal conferencewhich was published on 28 and 29 November 2016 in Berlin will be publicly announced and awarded prizes.
The winning municipalities will receive prize money of 25,000 euros each. The winners must reinvest the prize money in projects that serve to protect the climate or adapt to climate change and will be asked to name the measures before the award ceremony. In this way, the award does not mark the end of the activities, but is also the starting signal and motivation for continuing, optimising and for new activities. How the prize money from previous years was used.
The jury is made up of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, the Federal Environment Agency, the German Association of Cities, the German Association of Districts and the German Association of Towns and Municipalities.
The necessary application documents can be downloaded at the bottom of this page. There is a special application form for each category, which must be completed and submitted together with a detailed project description (see page 4 of each form). Multiple applications are possible. Please use a separate application form for each application. Please send your application documents by post or e-mail to: German Institute of Urban Affairs, Auf dem Hunnenrücken 3, 50668 Cologne, e-mail: klimaschutz@difu.de. Legal recourse is excluded.
The competition team will be happy to answer any questions you may have about the competition:
Telephone: 0221/340 308-12, e-mail: klimaschutz@difu.de
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DE-News, Funding, Climate protection
Although www.siedlungen.eu is self-explanatory in the German-speaking world, it is somewhat unwieldy in normal language usage. For this reason, the abbreviation "sdg21" has also been used since February 2017. It is formed from the acronym for "sustainable development goals", and the number stands for the 21st century. The Sustainable Development Goals 2030 were adopted by all the countries of the world at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in New York in September 2015. In order to achieve the SDG 2030 targets, the projects listed are intended to provide solutions. The website is now available via the domains www.siedlungen.eu , www.sdg21.eu and www.sdg21.de, www.sdg21.ch and www.sdg21.at reachable.
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sdg21 news
Berlin/Stuttgart, 16 November 2017. Baden-Württemberg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Bavaria are the leading federal states in the field of renewable energies. This is the result of the comparison of the federal states published today, which the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) have prepared for the fifth time on behalf of and in cooperation with the Agency for Renewable Energies (AEE). Based on 59 indicators, the analysis assesses in detail the political efforts and successes of the federal states in the use of renewable energies as well as in the associated economic and technical transformation. Hesse, Berlin and Saarland are at the bottom of the ranking.
The federal states are important players in the energy transition. They not only implement the energy goals of the federal government and the EU with concrete expansion on the ground, but they can also decisively advance or slow down the progress of the energy transition through their own goals, priorities and programmes as well as the design of framework conditions. The Comparison of Renewable Energies in Germany by DIW Berlin, ZSW and AEE shows the political efforts as well as the successes in the use of renewable energies and in technological and economic structural change on the basis of 59 individual indicators and in four summarising indicator groups. On the one hand, indicators record, for example, the energy policy programmes of the respective federal states, the shares of renewable energies in energy consumption and the successes in expanding individual technologies such as wind power or solar energy. On the other hand, research efforts in the field of renewable energies, support for the settlement of companies from the sector and patent applications in this field are analysed.
"With the Renewable Energies Comparison of the German Federal States, which is now in its fifth year, we can make the energy transition developments comparable at the federal level and thus assess who is acting particularly successfully and where there is still potential for optimisation," explains Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert, Head of the Energy, Transport and Environment Department at DIW Berlin. "The current study shows new highs for many indicators, for example with regard to the shares of renewable energies in the federal states and a progressive expansion in the various technologies. In general, most countries are on the right track, even if there are differences in the pace of development," Kemfert continues.
The highest number of points in the current overall ranking was achieved by Baden-Württemberg, which thus reached the top position for the first time. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania came in second. Both states improved by one position compared to the last ranking in 2014. The last leader, Bavaria, achieved the third-highest total number of points.
Prof. Dr. Frithjof Staiß, Executive Director of the ZSW, comments on the results: "The variety of indicators allows a detailed classification of the strengths and weaknesses of each federal state. The three front-runners alone differ significantly here: Baden-Württemberg scores above all with its political input for the use of renewable energies, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is strong in the area of structural change and Bavaria continues to show high expansion rates for renewables."
"However, not everything is bad in Saarland, which brings up the rear, nor is Baden-Württemberg a pioneer in all areas and could now lay its hands in its lap," Staiß continues. "There is potential for improvement there, for example, in the economic importance of renewable energies. In this area, on the other hand, the last-placed Saarland can at least score points in the development of sales with renewable technologies."
While progress can be seen in most individual indicators for all countries, there are also backward trends in various places in individual countries, for example in the share of renewables in district heating or in the development of energy-related CO2 emissions. Philipp Vohrer, AEE Managing Director, comments: "Even where encouraging values can be noted, the system transformation is far from complete. The study clearly shows where things are going wrong and where there is still an urgent need for action. There is still room for improvement everywhere - here we can learn something from the countries that scored better on the individual points. For the successful realisation of the energy transition and in particular the achievement of the climate goals, further efforts are needed, also and especially in the federal states.
The entire study as well as a summary, reflections on the individual countries and charts to the results can be found collected on the page www.foederal-erneuerbar.de/bundeslaendervergleich-erneuerbare-energien.
Under the link you will also find some downloadable Quotes from AEE Managing Director Philipp Vohrer on the background to the comparison of the federal states and on the results of the individual states.
The study was prepared as part of the Federal Renewable Energy project with funding from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.
The DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economic Research) has been one of the leading economic research institutes in Germany since 1925. It researches economic and socio-scientific correlations in socially relevant subject areas and advises politics and society on this basis. The institute is networked nationally and internationally, provides research infrastructure that is used worldwide and promotes young researchers. DIW Berlin is independent and, as a member of the Leibniz Association, is predominantly financed by public funds.
www.diw.de
The Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) is one of the leading institutes for applied research in the fields of photovoltaics, renewable fuels, battery technology and fuel cells as well as energy system analysis. Around 230 scientists, engineers and technicians are currently employed at the three ZSW locations in Stuttgart, Ulm and Widderstall. In addition, there are 90 scientific and student assistants.
The ZSW is a member of the Innovationsallianz Baden-Württemberg (innBW), an association of 13 non-university, business-related research institutes.
www.zsw-bw.de
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