"What do the digitalisation society and the eco-scene have in common? Both are apolitical, says social psychologist Harald Welzer."
Source: The zeozwei controversy: Ecos are apolitical
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).
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As of today, the web database for sustainable settlements and neighbourhoods can be accessed under the domain "sdg21.eu". The previous domains www.siedlungen.eu, www.holzbausiedlungen.de and their subdomains are still active and lead directly to the respective contents.
Why the move to sdg21.eu?
There is a content-related and a practical reason for this. The practical reason is the somewhat shorter spelling, but also that it is easier to pronounce.
The reason for this is that this website is not only about settlements, as www.siedlungen.eu would suggest, but increasingly also about urban districts. There are not as many urban quarters with more far-reaching sustainability concepts as there are sustainable settlements or eco-settlements. However, the urban structure of mixed-use neighbourhoods, in the best case scenario, and the significantly lower land consumption in most cases for the same usable area, is in itself a significant contribution to sustainable development. Mixed-use neighbourhoods are conceptually ideally suited to organising everyday mobility without private cars and are an established and proven method of creating affordable housing in the city.
In order to be able to communicate this topic more directly, there is now an additional access within the sdg21.web database via the URL www.quartiere.net. This link will directly display Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods.
The web database is still available via the domain www.siedlungen.eu available. Sustainable settlements will continue to be a focus of the sdg21.web database, because this is where most projects and experiences have been made so far.
In general, the use of the letters "sdg21.eu" should further help to make the "sustainable development goals" better known. To achieve a distinction to the SDG 2030 I chose the number 21, which stands for the 21st century we are currently in. The SDG 2030 are the "Sustainable Development Goals 2030"The SDG 2030 Millennium Goals were adopted in September 2015 at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in New York by all the countries of the world as a guiding principle with agreed targets. In order to achieve the SDG 2030 Millennium Goals, the sdg21.web database would also like to offer solutions in the settlement and neighbourhood sector with the listed projects. In addition to the domain www.sdg21.eu the URLs www.sdg21.de, www.sdg21.ch and www.sdg21.at offered, which lead directly to the sustainable settlements and neighbourhoods of the respective countries.
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Published on 08.10.2013
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Social / Culture, Transition Town, Environmental policy
Already in December, the state parliament, with the votes of the red-red-green coalition, had a decision The state has adopted a resolution on how it intends to implement the 2030 Agenda for Global Sustainable Development and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on the ground.
For the first time ever in a federal state, the state parliament in Erfurt is thus also setting up a "Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development". Some federal states have their own sustainability councils or scientific advisory bodies, and many have also formulated their own sustainability strategy. However, there is no advisory council at parliamentary level anywhere.
Read the full article from the 26.01.2017: www.nachhaltigkeitsrat.de/...
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Stakeholders, News Blog Thuringia, Environmental policy
