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New BMUB funding programme brings climate products into series production

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Funding guideline comes into force on 1 March 2018

With the so-called Small Series Directive, the Federal Environment Ministry is launching a new funding programme within the framework of the National Climate Initiative. Funding is provided for products and processes for climate protection that are already ready for the market but have not yet made the breakthrough. The directive comes into force on 1 March 2018.

Innovative products and processes often find it difficult to quickly establish themselves on the market and make the leap into regular series production. This is where the Federal Ministry for the Environment wants to help in future with investment grants within the framework of the small series funding guideline.

Five different technologies are the subject of the funding, which were selected within the framework of an ideas competition and its evaluation by a panel of experts. Eligible for funding in the future are

  1. Micro hydropower plants with up to 30 kilowatts of electrical output in technical installations,
  2. energy-efficient equipment for local oxygen production (which can be used, for example, in hospitals, research facilities, chemical processes or sewage treatment plants),
  3. decentralised systems for heat recovery from domestic hot water (for example, shower channels, tubs or pipes with heat exchangers),
  4. Drilling equipment for innovative geothermal storage probes and
  5. electrically assisted cargo bikes and cargo bike trailers with high payloads and transport volumes for bicycle-based cargo transport. The promotion of cargo bikes is part of the Clean Air Emergency Programme.

Companies as well as municipalities and other organisations can benefit from the funding. Private individuals can also apply for funding for heat recovery systems from domestic hot water.

The Federal Office of Economics and Export Control (BAFA) will accept applications for funding under the directive from 1 March 2018. Applications can only be submitted online.

Further information:
www.klimaschutz.de/kleinserien-richtlinie
The leaflet on the new funding guideline for small series as PDF:
www.bafa.de/...kleinserien_klimaschutzprodukte_node.html


Keywords: Bike-/Velo-City, DE-News, Funding, Climate protection, Mobility, Sustainable management, Resource efficiency, Environmental policy, Urban production, eMobility

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Düsseldorf. With the Förder.Navi, an online tool of the EnergyAgency.NRW, you can now find your way through the funding jungle even faster. The tool (www.energieagentur.nrw/foerder-navi) helps private individuals, companies and municipalities to find funding opportunities when it comes to energy-efficient renovation, for example.

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Germany's largest thermal solar plant is located in the former Lusatian lignite mining area
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In September, Germany's largest thermal solar plant officially went into operation in the Brandenburg city of Senftenberg. The plant was built by Stadtwerke Senftenberg on an area of around 2.2 hectares and is expected to produce around four million kilowatt hours of heat per year.

Due to its outstanding commitment to the expansion of renewable energies, the Agency for Renewable Energies awards the city of Senftenberg as Energy Municipality of the Month. "In order to achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, the heating sector is of great importance. With the construction of the solar thermal plant, the city of Senftenberg presents itself as a pioneer in the municipal heat transition," says Nils Boenigk, Deputy Managing Director of the Agency for Renewable Energies.

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The project is a highlight among the local climate protection efforts resulting from the energy concept published in 2013. This concept examines and evaluates the opportunities and possibilities for the expansion of renewable energies and the economical use of energy. The city focuses primarily on the heating sector, as its heating needs account for the largest share of total energy consumption. The new thermal solar plant makes a major contribution to renewable heat generation here. In the electricity sector, where up to 90 per cent of demand was already generated from renewable sources in 2011, the city is even aiming to generate more than 100 per cent of electricity from renewable sources by 2030.

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A detailed portrait of the city of Senftenberg can be found at http://www.kommunal-erneuerbar.de/de/energie-kommunen/energie-kommunen/senftenberg.html



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