With a new law, Paris encourages its residents to garden the public space. Wherever possible, vertical and horizontal gardens are to be created, urban agriculture is promoted. There is even a starter kit with planting soil. Among other things, 100 hectares of living facades and roofs are to be created by 2020.
The municipality of Wüstenrot wants to be energy self-sufficient by 2020. The project "EnVisaGe - Development of a municipal plus-energy concept using the example of the municipality of Wüstenrot" is part of the EnEff:Stadt initiative and describes how, in addition to reducing primary energy use and CO₂ emissions (keyword "decarbonisation"), independence from energy imports can be achieved and local value creation strengthened.
This publication "Vision 2020 - The PlusEnergy Community of Wüstenrot" describes
the starting position of the community of around 6,500 inhabitants,
the key steps in the conceptualisation and implementation of the goal of energy self-sufficiency and
the results obtained by 2015 as part of the research project
As the energy transition will primarily be implemented in the municipalities, this publication is intended to provide valuable information that should inspire people to follow suit.
Bibliographic data:
Vision 2020 - The PlusEnergy community of Wüstenrot
by Dirk Pietruschka
2016, 139 pages, 97 illustrations,
11 tables, cardboard
ISBN 978-3-8167-9545-2
However, the regulatory framework remains unsuitable for the widespread market deployment of energy storage systems.
The industry figures published annually by BVES show a fundamentally positive development in retrospect for 2020 and in the forecast for 2021. Across all technologies and segments, sales in the energy storage industry grew by over 10 percent to EUR 7.1 billion in 2020.
The growth drivers are the trends towards system integration, flexible sector coupling and electromobility, particularly in the household and commercial sectors. 300,000 home storage units alone are now installed in households and ensure a secure self-supply of green energy in the electricity, heating and mobility sectors. 300,000 home storage units provide 2.3 GWh of green electricity, enough for the annual washing of more than 20,000 households or to drive an e-car around the world more than 170 times.
Urban Windelen, Federal Managing Director BVES: "An addition of over 100,000 home storage units alone in one year is a great result. And at the same time a clear signal that citizens in households, commerce and industry increasingly want to rely on storage technologies to make their energy supply secure, green and cost-efficient. Politicians should finally listen to this signal and provide the highly innovative German storage industry with a suitable framework for its products. Relying solely on grid expansion and squeezing people into an outdated energy system will not be enough for a successful energy transition."
While the household segment was able to grow disproportionately in the Corona year 2020, the industrial and commercial storage segment suffered a decline of around 20 percent due to the pandemic. Germany also continues to evade the international trend towards the increased use of large-scale storage in the system infrastructure. This market segment is stagnating at a low level. The trend towards hydrogen solutions finds a difficult environment in Germany, so that market applications on an industrial scale cannot (yet) establish themselves. In contrast, thermal storage systems are developing well and are increasingly being used in industry in particular, contributing to decarbonisation.
Overall, the industry expects a significant recovery of the storage market in the industrial segment in 2021. The drivers here are flexible sector coupling in the direction of heat, the trend towards electromobility with clever charging solutions including storage, and self-supply solutions with green electricity to green hydrogen.
"Without energy storage, the energy transition is missing something. This is becoming increasingly obvious. Technically, the industry can do pretty much anything. Various technologies for all sectors and all applications are ready and operational. Now all that needs to be done is to finally release the regulatory brakes. Especially if we want to secure and support the domestic technical excellence and high value creation of the industry in Germany and Europe." says Urban Windelen.
The BVES industry figures 2021 are available via this link available.
The occasion for the publication is the international conference ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS 2021, organized by BVES in cooperation with Energy Storage Europe and EUROSOLAR e.V.. The two-day online conference ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS 2021 will feature parallel discussion panels and workshops on current trends in the storage industry.
Source: PM of the Bundesverband Energiespeicher from
Deutsche Umwelthilfe calls for immediate proposal for tax incentives for energy-efficient building refurbishment - Building sector makes decisive contribution to achieving climate protection targets - Increase refurbishment rate to 2 percent per year
Contrary to the agreements in the coalition agreement, the draft budget presented by the Federal Minister of Finance, Olaf Scholz, on 2 May 2018 does not include tax incentives for the energy-efficient refurbishment of buildings. Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) considers this a worrying revelation. The environmental and consumer protection organisation calls on the federal government to immediately launch a programme for tax incentives for the energy-efficient refurbishment of buildings and to increase the refurbishment rate for existing buildings from the current 0.8 percent to at least 2 percent per year.
"If the Federal Minister of Finance does not anchor this measure, which was agreed in the coalition agreement and is central to climate protection, in his draft budget, then he shows that he has either forgotten or already abandoned the climate policy promises of the new government after only a few weeks in office.", says Sascha Müller-Kraenner, Federal Executive Director of DUH.
Energy-efficient building refurbishment is a central element of the energy transition and climate protection. However, climate protection in the building sector will only be successful if the renovation rate in the building stock increases from the current 0.8 percent to over 2 percent annually.
"The two previous governments already failed to set the course for tax incentives in time and thus make a decisive contribution to achieving the 2020 climate protection target"Müller-Kraenner continues. "The reservations of the Länder that tax incentives would create a budget gap for them have been known for a long time. It is time to bring acceptable counter-financing solutions to the table."
After all, tax incentives for refurbishment costs are an important incentive not only for large housing associations but also for private homeowners to invest their own funds. The starting signal for this must now be given urgently.
The current share of green electricity should not hide the fact that this federal government is blocking the energy transition at every turn. Take wind energy, for example: the government keeps delaying the additional tenders. Therefore, a massive slump is imminent in the next two years. This means job losses in a key industry of the future and a stagnating development in the share of wind power.
Take solar power, for example: no sooner has the solar power market picked up again after years of lull than the German government wants to massively cut the market premium for many installations. This emerges from the current draft bill for the Energy Collection Act. In doing so, the government would stall the positive development again. The cap of 52 gigawatts for solar power is also to remain in place.
Even if the government only wants to achieve its own targets, which are far too low, it must double the current production of green electricity by 2030. The course must be set for this now. But instead of finally accelerating the expansion of green electricity, the black-red coalition wants to continue to slow down, cap and delay. Not to mention transport and buildings, where the energy transition is not making any progress at all. In this way, the government continues to torpedo the urgently needed climate protection.
PM BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN in the German Bundestag of 2.11.2018
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