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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

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