Video from 1.10.2021; Duration: 10:17 min.
The cities propose to strengthen and accelerate local climate protection through a new financial support system. The German Association of Cities today published a concept and a publication on its website. The Chief Executive of the German Association of Cities, Helmut Dedy, told the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) for a report on 6 June:
"We think it is good and important that the federal government also wants to promote municipal climate protection more strongly. From the cities' point of view, there have been far too many short-sighted and cumbersome federal funding programmes so far, which at best have caused a flash in the pan. This is no longer appropriate, because we need to act quickly and effectively to achieve climate neutrality. The German Association of Cities has therefore developed a concept for how the federal and state governments can wisely promote municipal climate protection. Municipalities should receive fixed budgets for climate protection for at least 10 years. This creates planning security at the local level, for example to renovate school buildings to make them more energy efficient or to achieve a heat supply without fossil fuels.
Further information on the Cities' Council proposal can be found here:
www.staedtetag.de/presse/pressemeldungen/2022/konzept-fuer-neues-foerdersystem-fuer-kommunalen-klimaschutz
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Procurement, DE-News, Renewable, Funding, Climate protection, Communities
Over the past four years, the power grid on the North Sea island of Borkum has served as a real laboratory for testing elements of a future-proof energy system. Central to this was the development of energy storage systems and their networked operation within a virtual power plant. The measures were funded by the EU project NETfficient from January 2015 to December 2018. 13 partners from 7 EU member states worked together.
Forty private houses, five large buildings, part of the Borkum street lighting and the temperature control of the Borkum Seawater Aquarium were connected to PV and energy storage systems, which range from lithium-ion batteries, supercapacitors and recycled old batteries from electric vehicles to hydrogen storage and low-temperature water storage. A 1 MW / 500 kWh large-scale storage system consisting of lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors was also used in the medium-voltage grid. All these storages and generators were connected to the so-called Energy Management Platform (a Distributed Energy Management System or DERMS), which is the central element of NETfficient. The Energy Management Platform allows the automated operation of the generators and storages and optimizes the energy consumption on the one hand and allows the provision of system services on the other hand.
The various visits to the island of Borkum were enriching for all project partners, who gained insights into life and living there, as well as into the interests and concerns of the island's inhabitants. They found an island community that has an above-average understanding of the challenges of the energy transition and climate change and that has its sights firmly set on the goal of becoming climate-neutral and emission-free by 2030.
On a technical level, this was an extremely complex project that required close coordination between the individual partners, most of whom did not even know each other before the project began. Participation in the project allowed partners from academia and research, industry and SMEs to deepen and exchange their knowledge and skills in a wide range of areas such as energy storage, power electronics, network technology, energy conversion and software. Several partners were able to increase the technological maturity of their products and improve their offer to customers within the framework of the project. For some, the project collaboration led to new orders or projects. Project coordinator Ayesa Advanced Technologies SA (Spain) comments:
"NETfficient was a key project for Ayesa's innovation strategy. It allowed the company to develop new energy solutions with outstanding market potential and established strong collaborations with European partners in the energy and storage value chains. We thank all NETfficient partners for their intensive work on this ambitious project and great community spirit in working towards the project goals."
The most important findings from the project are now being summarized in a handbook, which will be published in January. It can be pre-ordered by emailing netfficient.project@gmail.com.
Further information on the project can also be found at www.netfficient-project.eu. In NETfficient, the Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum took over the administrative and financial project management, the dissemination and exploitation of the project results, the communication and supports the market introduction.
NETfficient is coordinated by Ayesa Advanced Technologies S.A. in cooperation with 12 partners: Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia; Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Cagliari; Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE; PowerTech Systems; Schneider Electric GmbH; Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum; Swerea IVF (from ; Vandenborre Energy Systems NV; Williams Advanced Engineering; Wirtschaftsbetriebe der Stadt Borkum GmbH; Zigor Research&Development; and follower-partner Ayuntamiento de Santander City Council's Information and Communications Department. The project is co-funded by the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, Project No. 646463.
Website:
www.netfficient-project.eu
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DE-News, Energy storage, Renewable, News Blog Lower Saxony, Electricity storage
In a motion, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen has called for a stronger focus on building with wood and the use of wood products as insulating materials. There should also be a KfW standard that focuses on building with renewable building materials.
The parliamentary group proposes a model programme for ecological building materials with a volume of 20 million euros. In the KfW Bankengruppe's programmes for new construction and refurbishment, the use of carbon-storing building materials based on renewable raw materials should be given greater support, for example in the form of a KfW Bankengruppe "Efficient House Nature+" standard.
More info: www.enbausa.de/...gruene-wollen-foerderprogramm-effizienzhaus-nature-5662.html
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Environmental policy
The state of Baden-Württemberg is setting an example in climate protection: by 2040 at the latest, the state administration is to operate in a climate-neutral manner. The new Climate Protection Foundation supports it in this by using the interest on its share capital to promote research and development as well as educational projects in the field of climate protection. In addition, the state, municipalities, companies and all citizens can offset their CO2 emissions through compensation payments and thus become climate neutral. The cooperation partner will be the non-profit climate protection organisation myclimate Germany.
Stuttgart, December 29, 2020 - On January 1, 2021, the new Climate Protection Foundation under the umbrella of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation will officially begin its work. The Baden-Württemberg Climate Protection Foundation is endowed with a capital of 49.5 million euros and supports the state administration in its goal of climate neutrality by 2040, offsetting the CO2 emissions of official air travel of state ministries, subordinate authorities and universities. Companies, districts and municipalities as well as all citizens can also make compensation payments to the foundation. For the simple calculation and direct compensation of CO2 emissions, the state is currently having an app developed under the leadership of the Ministry of the Interior. The assets of the Climate Protection Foundation are invested sustainably by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Finance as part of the asset management of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation. Further information, including the foundation's statutes, can be found at Klimaschutzstiftung BadenWürttemberg - BW Foundation.
"I am very pleased that we can now get started with the Baden-Württemberg Climate Protection Foundation. We must not neglect the international climate goals even in times of the Corona pandemic - and with the Climate Protection Foundation we are making an important contribution to Baden-Württemberg," says Christoph Dahl, Managing Director of the Baden-Württemberg Foundation. "The state is thus taking on a pioneering role, as no other federal state can boast a comparable foundation."
Strategic partnership with myclimate Germany The Carbon Offset Foundation will establish carbon offset projects with its own team, into which the offsets can flow. In addition, the foundation will develop its own educational and research projects. The strategic partner will be myclimate Germany, one of the leading providers of CO2 offsetting and carbon offset consulting based in Reutlingen. myclimate Germany supports the Carbon Offset Foundation Baden-Württemberg primarily through strategic consulting, the calculation of CO2 emissions, and the implementation of CO2 offsetting. myclimate provides CO2 certificates from carbon offset projects that are certified according to the strictest quality standards and supports the Carbon Offset Foundation in the development and implementation of its own carbon offset projects, both regionally and internationally.
More information under
myclimate Germany - Your partner for climate protection
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DE-News, Funding, Climate protection, News Blog Baden-Württemberg, Environmental policy
