The Viennese housing estate Florisdorf: open spaces instead of sheet metal
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Video report about the car-free settlement Florisdorf in Vienna.
Content: For 16 years there has been a car-free settlement in the 21st district. Instead of parking spaces, communal areas dominate. The residents are still enthusiastic - but for some of them, the sloppiness has set in.
Energiedienst receives production approval for hydrogen from green electricity
Domestic industry will be the first customer
Energiedienst's power-to-gas plant in Grenzach-Wyhlen is allowed to produce emission-free hydrogen from green electricity as of today. Photo: energiedienst.de
Grenzach-Wyhlen, December 5, 2019. Hydrogen production in Grenzach-Wyhlen in Baden-Württemberg (not far from Basel) can start. Energiedienst today received approval for the operation of the power-to-gas plant. All technical verifications and official clarifications have now been fulfilled.
In the state-of-the-art plant, Energiedienst produces hydrogen from self-generated green electricity using electrolysis. The electricity comes from the company's own hydroelectric power plant on the same site. The environmentally friendly hydrogen will initially be used in nearby industry. It is also planned to use it in local public transport. A comprehensive concept also envisages that the waste heat generated during electrolysis will be used to heat a new residential area. By linking electricity, mobility and heat supply in this way - keyword: sector coupling - the plant should help to reduce CO2 emissions and support the energy transition.
A year ago, Energiedienst officially inaugurated the power-to-gas plant together with the State Minister of Economics, Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut (CDU).
The plant has an output of one megawatt. In addition, there is 0.3 megawatts from an affiliated research facility of the ZSW (Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research). The state of Baden-Württemberg has funded this as part of a lighthouse project.
At the end of October, Energiedienst also submitted a concept for hydrogen for consideration in the "Reallabore der Energiewende" ideas competition run by the German Federal Ministry of Economics. The Federal Government attaches a key role to hydrogen, especially for the mobility of the future. The funding commitment from Berlin is still pending.
Company information
The Energiedienst Group is a German-Swiss public limited company with a regional and ecological focus. It generates green electricity from hydropower and sells electricity and gas. Its own grid companies supply customers with electricity. Another focus is on intelligently networked products and services for the decentralised renewable and digital energy world of the future, such as photovoltaic systems, heat pumps, electricity storage systems and e-car sharing.
The Energiedienst Group supplies over 270,000 customers with electricity. It employs just under 1,000 people, including around 50 trainees. The group includes Energiedienst Holding AG, Energiedienst AG, ED Netze GmbH, Messerschmid Energiesysteme GmbH, EnAlpin AG in Valais as well as Tritec AG and winsun AG. Energiedienst Holding AG is an associated company of EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG (Karlsruhe).
The new housing development "Ludmilla Wohnpark" was built in Landshut with more than 180 residential units in plus-energy construction. Five single-family houses, two semi-detached houses, six terraced houses and eight multi-family houses with a total of 55 flats were built on a plot of around 7,300 square metres.
Researchers from Munich University of Applied Sciences and the Technical University of Dresden are evaluating the quarter and optimising the technology in operation. There is an initial report on this in the BINE-Info: www.bine.info/...plusenergie-konzept-in-siedlung-getestet
(the ESD info service was discontinued at the end of 2020)
As part of a VHS theme series, those interested can discuss the further development of the former barracks site this coming Saturday.
The series of events "Urban Design in Dialogue" aims to encourage citizens to think about the design of specific areas and buildings in Bonn and to influence their future development. On Saturday, 25 March, the programme includes a tour of the former Ermekeil barracks in Bonn's Südstadt. The VHS Bonn in cooperation with the Association of German Architects Bonn-Rhein-Sieg and the Ermekeilinitiative e.V. have invited participants.
The site of the former barracks was handed over by the Federal Ministry of Defence in 2013 to the Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben (BimA), which is responsible for its further administration, utilisation and finally sale. Since 2015, a large part of the area has been used as refugee accommodation by the state of NRW.
Since 2005, the Ermekeilinitiative e. V. has been actively promoting the civil use of the site as a social, cultural and ecologically sustainable meeting place. The current 300 square metres include an urban gardening project and an event space where integrative projects for the neighbourhood and refugees take place.
On the day of the event, the association will introduce the topic and be available for further questions.
More information on the event and the thematic series can be found on the VHS Bonn website at: .
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