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 30-minute documentary film entitled "Das Bauhäusle - Einfach mehr als ein Studentenwohnheim" by Daniela Schaffart (2011) that can be ordered at: film@bauhaeusle.de
On the one hand, more and more old office buildings and office parks are losing their function. On the other hand, there is a great demand for living space in cities and agglomerations. This publication shows the opportunities, but also the difficulties, associated with the conversion of this particular building typology.
The conversion of office properties certainly represents only a very small and special segment of our urban development. But it deserves more attention, both in terms of the history behind this inconspicuous building task and in terms of the future potential that we are far from having exhausted. The conversion of this particular building stock is a serious alternative to demolition and new construction.
Seven practical examples show how diverse and varied office building conversion projects are. From historic individual properties to modern office districts, the framework conditions are often very different. However, it is precisely by dealing with the existing buildings that they can develop new qualities for their surroundings (Lyoner Viertel, Frankfurt; Büropark Seestern, Düsseldorf; O-Werk, Bochum; Goltsteinforum, Cologne; Beginenhof, Essen; Gerling Hochhaus, Cologne; Hochhaus an der Baierbrunner Straße, Munich).
The study commissioned by StadtBauKultur NRW was prepared in cooperation with the ILS - Institute for Regional and Urban Development Research.
Berlin, 22 October 2018: Vattenfall Energy Solutions, Gewobag and the energy storage start-up Lumenion are jointly piloting a new type of sector-coupled steel storage system at Bottroper Weg in Berlin-Tegel, which absorbs regional generation peaks from wind and solar energy in a grid-serving manner and later provides the renewable energy as heat and electricity in line with demand.
"With this pilot project, we want to demonstrate the particular technical and economic suitability of thermal storage systems for the effective utilisation of large quantities of wind and solar energy in a very practical way," says Alexander Voigt, founder and Managing Director of Lumenion. "Some of our team have been working with renewable energies for over 30 years and with energy storage systems for over ten years. Based on this experience, we made a conscious decision in favour of steel as a storage medium for the second phase of the energy transition, which is just beginning."
The Lumenion steel storage system stores "electricity peaks" for less than 2 cent/KWh in a cost- and space-efficient manner at up to 650° Celsius as heat, which can be converted back into electricity using a turbine unit if required - or used entirely as heat. As a co-founder of Solon, Q-Cells and Younicos, among others, Voigt has been successfully launching solar modules and storage systems on the market since the 1990s.
Hanno Balzer, Managing Director of Vattenfall Energy Solutions GmbH: "Decentralised systems and energy storage are key factors in the energy transition; heat is a particularly cost-effective form of storage. If the stored energy can then be utilised not only as heat but also in the form of electricity, that is a milestone. The high-temperature storage system brings us a big step closer to this!"
Karsten Mitzinger from Gewobag Energie- und Dienstleistungsgesellschaft adds: "The energy transition can only succeed if it is decentralised and based on partnership. As a housing industry, we are making our contribution to climate protection in our neighbourhoods. With this project, we are pleased to be able to demonstrate the good cooperation between energy supply companies, municipal housing associations and innovative start-ups. Only together can we master the major challenges of the energy transition."
In the Tegler pilot project, a 2.4 megawatt hour (MWh) storage block is being trialled for commercial use and transferred to regular operation. To this end, the unit will be integrated with an existing gas-powered CHP unit from Vattenfall Energy Solutions into the neighbourhood electricity and local heating supply of a 1970s apartment building owned by Gewobag. The storage system will temporarily absorb any power peaks that are not required and feed them into the heat supply later on as needed. In a second step, a reconversion into electricity is also planned.
Parallel to the construction of the pilot project, Lumenion is testing a 450 kWh prototype on the campus of the University of Applied Sciences (HTW) in Oberschöneweide. The HTW is supporting Lumenion with practical accompanying research in the development, testing and validation of data, as well as in the regulation and operational management of the innovative storage system.
In further projects, Lumenion storage systems with 40 MWh and even 1,400 MWh are to be created as the next milestones. These giga-storages can integrate existing and newly added large quantities of renewable electricity generation from wind and solar power into the existing grids in a particularly favourable, efficient and demand-oriented manner, thus enabling a significant acceleration of the energy transition.
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