The Austrian parliament has implemented an emergency package to promote photovoltaics. From 2020 onwards, an annual budget of 36 million euros will be available for the investment promotion of photovoltaic systems and electricity storage.
The state of Rhineland-Palatinate is launching a solar offensive with a 5-million-euro funding programme for private and municipal solar storage systems.
Today, 9 October 2019, Energy Minister Ulrike Höfken and the Rhineland-Palatinate Energy Agency officially launched the Solar Offensive, which is to take effect at various levels. The Minister presented the solar storage programme as a central component of the offensive. "With the programme, we support private households and municipalities in installing new photovoltaic systems combined with battery storage. In this way, we want to promote the self-supply of municipalities with their properties such as climate schools and private individuals with self-generated PV electricity and its storage," said Höfken.
The funding can be applied for at the Rhineland-Palatinate Energy Agency at: www.energieagentur.rlp.de/solarspeicher
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The Federal Award ENVIRONMENT & BUILDING initiated by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) under the patronage of Federal Minister Svenja Schulze honors projects that already realize the idea of a new Bauhaus in the sense of holistically sustainable buildings. In 2021, the prize will be awarded for the second time, this time in four categories. All players in the building sector are eligible to apply. The closing date for entries is 25 May 2021.. The prize will be awarded on 7 September by Parliamentary State Secretary Florian Pronold and UBA President Dirk Messner.
The discussion about the climate, environmental and health impacts of buildings and their construction has long since reached the centre of society. Topics such as primary energy demand, grey energy or healthy building are no longer just the preserve of experts, but are also attracting the attention of more and more private and public building owners. And rightly so - because the building sector consumes enormous raw material and energy resources, and building products can be harmful to the environment and health. Sustainable solutions already exist today and are already being implemented. The Federal ENVIRONMENT & BUILDING Award therefore honours lighthouse projects in the field of sustainable building and helps to bring the EU Commission's vision of a "New European Bauhaus" to life.
About the Federal Award
This year, the Federal Award will again be presented in the categories "Residential Buildings", "Non-residential Buildings" and "Neighbourhoods". A fourth category, "Climate-friendly refurbishment", is new. In addition to these competition categories, the jury may award special prizes for particularly innovative approaches among the projects submitted.
Conditions of participation
Due to the thematic breadth, all actors in the building sector are invited to apply: from builders and developers to offices for architecture, building services engineering, urban or landscape planning to manufacturers or research institutions. The call for entries is aimed at buildings that have already been completed in Germany or neighbourhoods that are at an advanced stage of planning; multiple applications in different categories are possible (also applies to refurbishment projects!).
What awaits the winners
The award winners will receive public attention on several levels. The award ceremony will take place on 7 September 2021 at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in Berlin, where the award-winning projects will be presented to experts and the media. The award-winning projects will also be featured on the websites of UBA and the Federal Environment Ministry. UBA is having films made on the award-winning sustainability examples, which the winners can then use for their own public relations work. Furthermore, all award-winning projects will be documented in a book.
Further
For more information on the conditions of participation in the Federal Environment & Building Award and last year's winners, please visit the Federal Award website: www.umweltbundesamt.de/bundespreis-umwelt-bauen.
Application deadline: 25 May 2021
Source: BMU
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The new report to the CLUB OF ROME was presented to the public at a press conference in Berlin on 13 September. In addition to the authors, Federal Minister Dr Gerd Müller also spoke.
Read the whole article: www.globalmarshallplan.org/news/neuer-bericht-den-club-rome-berlin-vorgestellt
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The previous sdg21.WordPress theme was no longer "responsive" for quite a while, which is why not all functions could be used, especially on smartphones. This week I was finally able to solve the problem. Thus, the sdg21.web database is now also available again on tablets and smartphones in the full range of functions.
Due to the new "theme", there may still be some unwanted behavior at one point or another. The bugs will be discovered and fixed bit by bit. The basic functions have been checked and are displayed as usual.
Info Responsive Design
with Responsive Design, function, design and content follow the respective screen resolution of the desktop, tablet or smartphone used. The term Responsive Web Design figuratively means "responsive web design". Content and navigation elements as well as the structural design of a website adapt to the screen resolution of the (mobile) end device - it reacts to and corresponds with the resolution of the end device. Responsive web design follows the user, and not the user rigidly constructed layouts of websites.
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