The Saxony-Anhalt Ministry of Transport is funding new charging stations for more e-mobility in the state with up to 40 percent. Not only municipalities are eligible to apply, but also companies that want to set up publicly accessible charging stations. In Saxony-Anhalt, applications for funding for the installation of public e-charging stations can be submitted with immediate effect.
With their publication in the Ministerial Gazette, the guidelines on the granting of subsidies to promote charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in Saxony-Anhalt are now in force, Transport Minister Thomas Webel said in Magdeburg on 13 April 2018.
No more than 15 minutes to the next charging point - that is the goal of the state of Saxony-Anhalt to strengthen electromobility, Webel explained. To implement this concept, the state is funding the installation of charging stations. According to the minister, the application and approval authority is Nahverkehrsservice Sachsen-Anhalt GmbH (NASA).
The funding is particularly interesting for municipalities and companies - applications can be submitted by all "natural and legal persons". The application period begins on April 16 and ends on June 15 of this year. A subsidy rate of 40 percent is planned.
The subsidized charging stations must be accessible to the public 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They must be put into operation by 14 November 2018 at the latest and run for at least six years.
There is a shortage of housing in Europe's conurbations; Germany alone lacks about 1.5 million residential units (WE). For this reason, the federal government has decided to build 400,000 WE annually. At the same time, the federal government's climate protection plan foresees a significant decrease in building emissions from 209 million to 67 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents by 2030, which would correspond to an emission reduction of 68 % since 1990. Other European countries have also committed to implementing far-reaching climate protection targets. Against this background, many of those involved in construction are increasingly relying on wood as a renewable building material, in addition to energy-efficient construction and the use of renewable energies.
The Construction cost study on large timber housing estates and quarters in Europe (short Wooden housing study), financed from funds of the funding programme FUTURE CONSTRUCTION of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs (BMWSB) and based at the Rottenburg University of Applied Sciences (HFR), systematically researches and records those projects in timber and timber hybrid construction that have already been realised or are currently in planning. In the process, the construction costs of the buildings are analysed as well as the motives of the investors and clients to build with wood. Another goal is to show how timber construction methods can be further established in the segment of housing estates and urban districts in order to expand the range of large-volume housing projects with an environmentally and climate-friendly variant.
In cooperation with the DGNB, the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) is organising a networking event on Interreg B - an EU programme to promote cooperation in transnational cooperation areas. The event will focus on topics such as Innovation, reducing CO2 emissions, the environment, transport, climate change and governance are the focus of the respective cooperation programmes. Innovative ideas for sustainability and resource efficiency in buildings, urban neighbourhoods and at a city-wide level are also promoted.
The aim of the event is to present exemplary results of completed Interreg projects in the thematic field, to demonstrate the added value of European cooperation, to provide information on specific funding opportunities and funding channels and to discuss questions for future project activities in an exchange of experiences. The event is aimed at newcomers and Interreg professionals alike.
Further information: www.dgnb.de/...Ressourceneffizienz.pdf
CO2-Emissions should be reduced by 65 percent over the next ten years compared to 1990 in order to achieve climate neutrality - Energy system must be converted to 100 percent renewable energies by 2040 - Investment of 3,000 billion euros required to meet European Green Deal and Paris climate targets - German EU Council Presidency can ensure that Corona aid packages link economic stimulus with climate protection
The European Green Deal sets the bar very high: Europe is to become climate neutral by 2050. However, these targets can only be achieved if CO2-emissions by 2030 not only by 40 percent compared to 1990, but by 65 percent. To achieve this, energy production would have to be completely converted to renewable energies by 2040. The necessary investments are high, but they will pay off. These are the most important results of a new study by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). On the occasion of the German EU Council Presidency, the economists from DIW Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin involved in the study have calculated under which circumstances the goals of the European Green Deal could be achieved and what costs this would entail. "So far, the EU Commission has assumed a CO2-reduction target of 40 percent. But this will not make Europe climate-neutral by 2050, as our calculations show. The targets must be much more ambitious," says study author Claudia Kemfert.
The authors have therefore compared a baseline scenario of 40 percent with a climate protection scenario that assumes a CO2-reduction of 65 percent by 2030 compared to 1990, as demanded by some groups in the EU Parliament. In fact, the calculations show that under these circumstances, the climate neutrality targeted in the Green Deal could be achieved. "However, this is only possible if we switch our energy system to 100 percent renewables - and do so already by 2040," says study author Karlo Hainsch. Even with a complete switch to renewables, the energy supply would remain secure, as the study's hourly calculations show - even for countries that still rely heavily on fossil or nuclear energy, such as Poland and France.
"The German EU presidency could kill two birds with one stone: economic recovery and climate protection." Christian von Hirschhausen
Such a scenario would save around 60 billion tonnes of CO2. "However, a switch to 100 percent renewable energy cannot be had for free. Extensive investments will have to be made," says study author Leonard Göke. According to the calculations, the investment required for renewable energies amounts to around 3000 billion euros. This is an enormous amount, but it is offset by savings of almost 2000 billion euros alone, which would no longer have to be spent on importing fossil fuels. Since both the EU and most national governments in Europe have put together extensive aid packages because of the Corona crisis, these could form a good basis for supporting the necessary investments.
"The German EU Presidency could kill two birds with one stone: economic recovery and climate protection," says study author Christian von Hirschhausen. "To do so, it must ensure that the extensive stimulus packages under the European Green Deal are used for investments in renewable energies and energy efficiency." In addition, there is still the Just Transition Fund, which the EU has set up to provide financial support for structural change in the regions of Europe that are affected very differently by the measures. "Particular care must be taken to ensure that the funds are channelled into sustainable climate-neutral projects and not used for the de facto stabilisation of fossil fuel development paths," warns study author Pao-Yu Oei. The current economic crisis, which is setting new parameters worldwide and across sectors, could now be used to decisively tackle the necessary measures towards climate neutrality.
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