Association of the German Wood-Based Panel Industry e.V.
3:08 min. published on 8.3.2017
The Federal Environment Ministry's funding programme now offers more opportunities for your climate protection projects. The programme has been significantly expanded with new funding priorities and improved funding for financially weak municipalities. A separate funding priority has been introduced for the renovation of day-care centres, schools, youth leisure facilities, sports facilities and swimming pools. The chances of receiving funding are good, because so far all eligible applications have been funded.
Since summer 2008, the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUB) has been providing funding on the basis of the "Guideline for the promotion of climate protection projects in social, cultural and public institutions within the framework of the National Climate Protection Initiative"(Municipal Directive) climate protection projects in municipalities.
The interest in the municipal guideline is great: between 2008 and 2014, more than 7,000 projects were funded. Funds are available again this year and in the coming years. In 2014 alone, the funding volume amounted to more than 60 million euros and has once again resulted in all eligible applications being funded. The various funding priorities of the Municipal Guidelines can be found on the following pages.
Applications can be submitted to Project Management Jülich from now (1 October 2015) until 31 March 2016. All documents, fact sheets and further information can be found here.A brief description of the various funding priorities of the Municipal Guidelines can be found below.
With the 2015 information tour, the Service and Competence Centre: Municipal Climate Protection (SK:KK), in cooperation with the federal states, provides information on the funding available for municipalities in climate protection in 2016. Everyone who is interested in the funding opportunities for municipalities in climate protection is invited to the information events - whether as an applicant, as an advisory institution or as a multiplier.
The upcoming SK:KK info tour events around the Eifel are:
25.11.2015 SK:KK - Information Tour 2015: Kaiserslautern
02.12.2015 SK:KK - Information Tour 2015: Wiesbaden
If you have any questions about the Municipal Guidelines, please contact the Service and Competence Centre: Municipal Climate Protection (SK:KK) at: 030-39001 170
Keywords:
Procurement, DE-News, Funding, Communities
Over the past four years, the power grid on the North Sea island of Borkum has served as a real laboratory for testing elements of a future-proof energy system. Central to this was the development of energy storage systems and their networked operation within a virtual power plant. The measures were funded by the EU project NETfficient from January 2015 to December 2018. 13 partners from 7 EU member states worked together.
Forty private houses, five large buildings, part of the Borkum street lighting and the temperature control of the Borkum Seawater Aquarium were connected to PV and energy storage systems, which range from lithium-ion batteries, supercapacitors and recycled old batteries from electric vehicles to hydrogen storage and low-temperature water storage. A 1 MW / 500 kWh large-scale storage system consisting of lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors was also used in the medium-voltage grid. All these storages and generators were connected to the so-called Energy Management Platform (a Distributed Energy Management System or DERMS), which is the central element of NETfficient. The Energy Management Platform allows the automated operation of the generators and storages and optimizes the energy consumption on the one hand and allows the provision of system services on the other hand.
The various visits to the island of Borkum were enriching for all project partners, who gained insights into life and living there, as well as into the interests and concerns of the island's inhabitants. They found an island community that has an above-average understanding of the challenges of the energy transition and climate change and that has its sights firmly set on the goal of becoming climate-neutral and emission-free by 2030.
On a technical level, this was an extremely complex project that required close coordination between the individual partners, most of whom did not even know each other before the project began. Participation in the project allowed partners from academia and research, industry and SMEs to deepen and exchange their knowledge and skills in a wide range of areas such as energy storage, power electronics, network technology, energy conversion and software. Several partners were able to increase the technological maturity of their products and improve their offer to customers within the framework of the project. For some, the project collaboration led to new orders or projects. Project coordinator Ayesa Advanced Technologies SA (Spain) comments:
"NETfficient was a key project for Ayesa's innovation strategy. It allowed the company to develop new energy solutions with outstanding market potential and established strong collaborations with European partners in the energy and storage value chains. We thank all NETfficient partners for their intensive work on this ambitious project and great community spirit in working towards the project goals."
The most important findings from the project are now being summarized in a handbook, which will be published in January. It can be pre-ordered by emailing netfficient.project@gmail.com.
Further information on the project can also be found at www.netfficient-project.eu. In NETfficient, the Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum took over the administrative and financial project management, the dissemination and exploitation of the project results, the communication and supports the market introduction.
NETfficient is coordinated by Ayesa Advanced Technologies S.A. in cooperation with 12 partners: Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia; Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Cagliari; Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE; PowerTech Systems; Schneider Electric GmbH; Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum; Swerea IVF (from ; Vandenborre Energy Systems NV; Williams Advanced Engineering; Wirtschaftsbetriebe der Stadt Borkum GmbH; Zigor Research&Development; and follower-partner Ayuntamiento de Santander City Council's Information and Communications Department. The project is co-funded by the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, Project No. 646463.
Website:
www.netfficient-project.eu
Keywords:
DE-News, Energy storage, Renewable, News Blog Lower Saxony, Electricity storage
Bonn/Cologne, 14 June 2017
StreetScooter GmbH, a subsidiary of Deutsche Post, and Ford-Werke GmbH are entering into a partnership to build battery-powered delivery vehicles. After Deutsche Post has already made its mark on the market for smaller vans with the emission-free StreetScooter, which it developed and built itself, the partnership is now moving on to a larger vehicle type: the basis is a Ford Transit chassis, which is equipped with a battery-electric drivetrain and a bodywork according to the specifications of Deutsche Post and DHL Paket.
Production will start in July 2017 and at least 2,500 units will be deployed in Deutsche Post DHL Group's inner-city delivery operations by the end of 2018. This volume will make the joint project the largest producer of battery-electric medium-duty delivery vehicles in Europe.
Both companies, Deutsche Post DHL Group and Ford, share the same goal of helping to shape the mobility of the future by reducing emissions and developing new transport solutions. This partnership is a concrete and important step towards achieving these goals.
"I see this partnership as another important boost for electromobility in Germany," says Jürgen Gerdes, Member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Post AG. "This step underlines Deutsche Post's innovation leadership, will relieve the burden on city centres and improve people's quality of life. We are continuing to work on a completely CO2-neutral Logistics!“
"Electromobility and innovative transport solutions for urban areas are at the centre of our efforts to align our business with the requirements of the future," says Steven Armstrong, Group Vice President and President Europe, Middle East and Africa, Ford Motor Company. "For us as the market leader in the commercial vehicle segment in Europe, this partnership is the perfect complement to our plans. With StreetScooter and the Deutsche Post DHL Group, we have a partner with enormous expertise and a global network."
In addition to the new production line, production of the existing StreetScooter models will be significantly expanded, as already announced: StreetScooter GmbH plans to produce up to 20,000 units of its successful smaller e-delivery vehicle in different variants each year in Aachen and at a future additional production site in North Rhine-Westphalia. More than 2,500 StreetScooters are already in use throughout Germany for Deutsche Post. In addition, more and more external interested parties are registering demand or have already taken delivery of StreetScooters to convert their vehicle fleets to emission-free operation.
Source: Deutsche Post DHL Group press release dated 14 June 2017
Keywords:
Stakeholders, Bonn, DE-News, Mobility, News Blog NRW, eMobility, Ecology
Vienna (OTS) – The BIG minimum standard goes beyond the legal requirements and ensures that all projects of BIG and its subsidiary ARE achieve the klimaaktiv SILVER standard in any case.
The sustainable minimum standard of the Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft (BIG) is a catalogue of criteria that must already be taken into account in the planning process of buildings. This makes the implementation of 43 measures of the BIG Holistic Building Program (HBP)* and the achievement of at least 750 klimaaktiv points mandatory for all new construction and general refurbishment projects for which a plan invention procedure will be carried out from 2020.
By implementing the minimum standard, CO2 emission levels will be significantly reduced, climate-damaging building materials will be avoided and the phase-out of fossil fuels will be accelerated.
„The sustainable development of real estate is rapidly gaining in importance both nationally and internationally. As a federal real estate company, we see it as our responsibility to set special standards in this area. The implementation of the sustainable minimum standard is a significant milestone on the way to improved resource and energy efficiency", says BIG Managing Director Hans-Peter Weiss.
Other points covered by the minimum sustainable standard are an overall ecological assessment of the buildings (according to OI3) and a mandatory life cycle cost analysis. The inclusion of future follow-up costs allows a long-term economic consideration of the sustainability measures.
In order to achieve the phase-out of fossil fuels and to be almost emission-free by 2025, BIG is also launching the Austria-wide photovoltaic initiative this year. PV systems will be installed on around 20 hectares of BIG and ARE rooftops by 2023. In this way, the efficient use of solar power will significantly increase the share of renewable energy.
For more information on the sustainable minimum standard and the HBP, please visit our website: https://nachhaltigkeit.big.at/node/16
With the Holistic Building Program (HBP), BIG, together with e7 and Pulswerk GmbH, has developed the most comprehensive digital building configurator in Austria. It accompanies users through all phases of sustainable building projects - from planning to construction to operation - and thus becomes an individual online checklist for all relevant topics. In total, the HBP guides users through 7 thematic areas with a total of 73 criteria that cover essential aspects of holistic construction and thus serve as a clear project guide. The focus is on economic and resource-saving factors as well as ecological and socio-cultural factors. The real-time display of the project data entered in the online catalogue also contributes to the high user-friendliness of the HBP. Each entry of individual measures is immediately converted into points. The maximum total number of points that can be achieved per project is 1,000.
With 2,060 properties, the BIG Group is one of the largest real estate owners in Austria. The portfolio consists of around 7.1 million square metres of lettable space with an enterprise value (fair value) of around EUR 12.0 billion. It is divided into the corporate divisions of schools, universities and special real estate. Office and residential properties are bundled in the subsidiary ARE Austrian Real Estate GmbH. The ARE portfolio comprises 558 properties with around 1.7 million square metres of lettable space. While BIG focuses primarily on public institutions, ARE's offering is also intended to increasingly address non-public tenants. As a developer, the BIG Group represents an important economic factor in Austria. Economic efficiency and architectural quality go hand in hand, as is constantly demonstrated. Every project aims to meet the needs of its future users in terms of ecological, economic and socio-cultural sustainability. The BIG Group has won several awards for its architectural commitment and has received eleven building owner awards to date.
(Group Report 2018/BIG Group in accordance with IFRS)
*) New construction/general renovations; incl. Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, without project companies + maintenance
Link
www.big.at
Source: PM from 10.2.2020
Keywords:
Stock, Climate protection, Sustainable management, News Blog Europe (without DE), News Blog Austria, Resource efficiency, Tools, Housing
