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State competition 2019 for housing in Bavaria

Published 15 September 2019

In the 2019 national competition, the focus is on existing buildings and inward growth: How can existing spaces be optimally utilised in times of scarce building land? How can innovative living spaces be created by converting existing uses? The 2019 state competition is looking for exemplary examples - in the city and in the countryside - that utilise all possibilities for reactivating existing buildings and were realised between 2014 and 2019.

The Bavarian Housing Prize is an honorary award. The award-winning participants receive a certificate and the award signet for the Bavarian Housing Prize made of Nymphenburg porcelain.

Closing date: 11 November 2019

Link
https://www.stmb.bayern.de/med/aktuell/archiv/2019/190904wohnungsbaupreis/index.php

Keywords: News Blog Bavaria, Quarters, Settlements, Contests & Prizes

Published 11 January 2019

Residential heating oil about 40 % more expensive in fall 2018 than last year

WIESBADEN - At the start of the heating season, private households had to pay around % more to fill their heating oil tanks in October 2018 than a year earlier. According to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), consumer prices for light heating oil have risen almost continuously since March 2016 following sharp price declines in 2014 and 2015. The last time light heating oil was more expensive than in October 2018 was at the end of 2013.

The rise in heating oil prices is mainly due to the fact that crude oil also became significantly more expensive on the global market until the beginning of October 2018. Currency effects due to the strong US dollar also had a price-increasing effect in 2018, influencing the price trend for German crude oil imports (+42.8 % in October 2018 compared to the same month of the previous year), producer prices for light heating oil (+37.7 %) and, as a result, the prices for light heating oil that consumers had to pay (+39.9 %).

According to preliminary figures, the annual inflation rate for light heating oil at the consumer level remained high in November 2018 (+40.7 %), although crude oil prices on the global market have been falling since the beginning of October. Compared to the previous month, prices for light heating oil rose by 5.9 %. There were significant regional differences: While the fuel became cheaper again in some parts of northern Germany in November 2018 compared to the previous month, it became more expensive, especially in southern and western Germany. This could indicate a low water effect: Transport costs rose due to the ongoing restrictions on inland shipping on the Rhine, which in turn may have had a regional impact on the price of light heating oil.

Source: Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), 11/12/2018

Keywords:
Stakeholders, DE-News, Renewable, Mobility, Environmental policy, Ecology

Published 12 June 2019

Lecture "Denmark on the way to a climate-neutral heat supply".

Lecture by Dr. rer. pol. Jens Clausen (Borderstep Institute) on 4.7.2019 at the Leibniz Uni Hannover
(30 min.)

Panel discussion Denmark's heat supply - also a model for Germany?
(43 min.)

In Germany, there are the following solar local heating projects in the context of settlements (no claim to completeness):
www.siedlungen.eu/grosse-solarthermie-anlagen-auf-siedlungen

Currently, some municipal utilities in Germany are investing in larger solar thermal fields that feed into their local and district heating networks.

Keywords:
100% EEs, Stakeholders, Citizen Energy, CO2-neutral, DE-News, Renewable, Movies, Movies 11 to 45 Min, Climate protection, Sustainable management, PV, Solar thermal, Sufficiency, Environmental policy

Published 18. December 2018

Heat turnaround in Gimbweiler

The state of Rhineland-Palatinate is providing funding of 150,000 euros for a local heating network in Gimbweiler, which is to be supplied in future by means of a solar thermal open-space system and a woodchip system.

"The planned local heating network will supply a total of more than 80 buildings in the village with renewable energy," says Thomas Griese, State Secretary at the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry for the Environment, Energy, Food and Forestry (MUEEF): "This includes a sports hall and a multi-generation house. I am excited about this project, because we need the commitment of the municipalities for a successful heat and energy turnaround!"

Griese handed over the funding notification to Mayor Martin Samson for a sub-project of the local heating network: the connection lines and the house transfer stations. In addition, the Gimbweiler receives funds from the federal government from the national climate protection initiative.

In the "Nahwärmeverbund Gimbweiler", the regenerative heat is generated by two woodchip boilers and a solar thermal open-space system. The solar thermal supported heat generation in connection with two buffer storage tanks saves fuel resources in a special way and avoids CO2 emissions. A multi-generation house, a sports hall and more than 80 residential buildings are supplied with heat from renewable energies.

18.12.2018 | Source: MUEEF

Keywords:
DE-News, Energy storage, Renewable, News Blog RLP, Solar thermal, Environmental policy, Ecology