STADTraum54 - Beautiful living for everyone

The new cooperative for Cologne that is reinventing the neighbourhood - a participatory event

Beautiful living for all - the rooftop cooperative initiative STADTraum54 is initiating the largest new cooperative project in Cologne - and you are helping to plan it? The initiators of STADTraum54 are putting their concept up for debate. Taking part is part of the programme!

Who owns the city? To all of us! Housing is a basic right, social coexistence is the foundation of our society, ecology is our responsibility and community is our desire. Many people looking for a housing project would subscribe to this guiding principle. And although there are many interested parties and some nice projects, there has been a lack of effectiveness on a larger scale in Cologne so far.

This initiative aims to push forward into a new dimension of housing projects in Cologne and everyone can contribute to this as a source of ideas, supporter or comrade. Even the first project should be larger than the usual housing projects, guarantee a long-term social commitment and also be of benefit to the neighbourhood. What has been realised in Berlin, Munich and Zurich should also be possible in Cologne. However, it should not just be a project for a small group of lucky people, but the start of a new urban culture. How we get there and which things are important and which are luxuries will be worked out together on this evening.

The event is the start of a participatory process that will result in a city that is kept alive by its citizens through active use, that belongs to them and in which they feel at home - but it starts with a project and then some!

Tuesday, 25.08.2016, 19:00 to 21:00 | Haus der Architektur Köln, Josef-Haubrich-Hof, 50676 Köln | Organiser: Netzwerk für gemeinschaftliches Bauen und Wohnen, a project of hdak | Admission free, please register by e-mail to anmeldung@hda-koeln.de

http://baugemeinschaften.hda-koeln.de/160825_themenabend/

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Our land consumption is still far too high

The federal government's goal of reducing daily land consumption to 30 hectares per day is a long way off. Currently, daily land consumption for settlement and transport still averages 66 hectares per day. This year's 30-hectare day thus fell on 15 June. Since the beginning of the year until this day, so much land has been built up nationwide that no more land may be used for settlement and transport until the end of the year if the 30 hectare target is to be met.

4.25 TWh from solar energy in NRW last year

Düsseldorf. 4.25 terawatts (TWh)! This is how much electricity was produced last year (2017) by the photovoltaic systems installed in North Rhine-Westphalia. This corresponds to the average annual electricity demand of more than 1 million four-person households. In total, there are 8.7 million households in NRW.

At the end of last year, PV systems with a total of around 4.64 megawatt peak (MWpeak) were installed in NRW. Compared to the previous year, this represents an increase of more than 3.5 percent. This means that around 136 kWpeak are installed per square kilometre of state surface in NRW. According to data from the North Rhine-Westphalia State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection (LANUV), there is an average irradiation of 916 kWh per kWpeak per year in the most populous state in Germany. "Photovoltaics has established itself as an attractive option for energy generation due to the technical developments of recent years. The combination of PV with storage technology is also increasingly interesting as a solution for own power consumption in private and industrial applications", says Carl Georg Graf von Buquoy of EnergyAgency.NRW.

Although the construction of PV systems in Germany has been declining in recent years, the construction of solar systems and solar power production have been increasing again for the past two years. The share of electricity generation in Germany from renewable energies was around 38 percent in 2017, with photovoltaics accounting for 7.2 percent nationwide and 2.6 percent in NRW. The PV systems installed in Germany produced a total of around 40 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, thus mathematically covering the annual electricity requirements of over 10.5 million households. With the PV capacity of around 4,640 MWpeak installed in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2017, the state ranked third in a Germany-wide comparison behind Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.

Source: PM EnergyAgency.NRW of 29.1.2018