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Windfang is the first women's energy community in the Federal Republic of Germany. It involves a group of women who have joined forces to actively promote the energy transition. They want to actively support regenerative energies such as wind, water and sun, but also the economical use of energy such as combined heat and power plants through their own activities. And for that, they need women’s support. The more women support these ideas financially and ideally and actively help to give the energy turnaround a leg up, the better they can turn our goals into reality.…
The initiative to buy back the energy grids was the birth of EnergieNetz Hamburg. Together with other organisations, they pushed for the referendum in September 2013, and won with the votes of over 400,000 residents of Hamburg. Today, the electricity, gas and district heating networks once again belong 100 % to the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. An important part of the regional energy infrastructure is now subject to the common good and democratic control. With the support of their members, they are fighting to restructure the grids and energy generation in Hamburg. Their goal is a climate-friendly, decentralised and social energy supply for all. The energy cooperative promotes the urb…
Since the fall of 2019, Team X4S - Extension for Sustainability - of Biberach University of Applied Sciences has been participating in the international competition Solar Decathlon Europe 21 (in 2022). The final of the competition took place in Wuppertal in June 2022. To create more living space within the city without using more land, they are extending the pre-existing building of Café Ada in Wuppertal by adding four additional floors. They will then construct one representative residential unit of their design for the final of the competition. The project’s innovations are aimed at drastically reducing carbon dioxide emissions from buildings in neighbourhoods while maintaining or improvin…
Since October 2012, the NRW Verbraucherzentrale (Consumers Association) has been offering budget and legal advice on energy poverty to consumer households as part of the state project “NRW combats energy poverty”. The aim of the special advice is to secure the energy supply of affected households in the long term and to permanently reduce energy barriers and energy poverty overall.…
A women's housing and building cooperative in Munich. The residential complex, which was completed in January 2007, is located near the bathing lake in Riemer Park at Ingeborg-Bachmann-Straße 26/28. Forty-nine apartments from 36 to 78 sqm (subsidized and privately financed), common rooms and a commercial unit for freelance professionals form the structural framework for a lively residential project that stands out with its architecture. The ultra-low-energy house (kW 40) of a passive house standard has, in addition to controlled living space ventilation, the option of using radiators to adjust room temperature to individual needs. The following facilities are available to everyone: a common …
The project "New mobility (in the neighbourhood) erFahren" with multimodality for climate-neutral and liveable urban neighbourhoods) took place from September 2019 to August 2021 in the Schöneberg Nord district region. As a pilot project of the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district office, the dedicated team worked for two years on the local transport turnaround in Schöneberg North. In various event formats, they promoted neighbourly dialogue regarding the traffic and mobility turnaround and thus triggered a rethink regarding the ownership and use of private cars. A centrepiece of the project was the car-free summer street Barbarossa. They also implemented the Umparkkampagne twice. Residents could t…
In September 2021, the Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection launched the participation process for the further development of the Berlin Energy and Climate Protection Programme (BEK 2030) for the implementation period 2022 to 2026 with a hybrid kick-off event (presence and online) on the participation platform mein.Berlin.de. All Berlin citizens were invited until 3 October 2021 to actively participate in the process and thus help shape Berlin's development into a climate-neutral city. The comments and suggestions will be incorporated into the update of the BEK 2030. In addition to the kick-off forum, two other expert forums, two workshop series, further on…
Michael Bürger's original concept, launched in 2020, is to build and operate a local heating network supplying 80 properties. The Bürger family lives on the same property in Schafgasse in Unterspiesheim, where the heating centre is located. Three boilers are fired with wood chips. Together, the furnaces have a heating capacity of 0.75 megawatts. The buffer tanks right next to them hold 30,000 litres, and another 20,000 litres will circulate in the heating pipes - once they are laid down and in operation. The woodchip fuel he gets partly from his own landscape management company; it is waste wood that accumulates there. He also collects the rest of the wood himself. Customers are bound to his…
In the project "Climate Protection Citizen 2.0", households were sought to participate in a real-life experiment in which sustainable behaviours could be tried out. Eighteen households from 12 municipalities in the Steinfurt district took part and managed to reduce their ecological footprint by an average of 10 per cent. Together with experts, the participants developed measures for climate-friendly behaviour in the areas of nutrition & consumption, mobility and energy saving & living with great events such as a climate cooking course and fuel-saving driving training.…
Energieland2050 e.V. was founded in April 2017 and is based in the Office for Climate Protection and Sustainability of the district of Steinfurt. As an association of 133 representatives from politics, business, science, and civil society and the 24 towns and municipalities belonging to the district, it supports the district of Steinfurt in achieving its major goal: becoming energy-independent by 2050 - or sooner. It promotes civic engagement, regional value creation and public discourse on social responsibility and sustainable and climate-friendly living.…
Citizens of Berlin founded the initiative; they built the Möckernkiez as a modern city district that functions as a model project. It is ecological, sustainable, accessible and social and is supposed to connect generations and build community. The buildings were finished in 2018. It is the biggest passive house city district to be built by a cooperative in Germany. It guarantees an energy supply on-site via renewable electricity, heating and e-mobility.…
Naturstrom AG aims to provide a 'clean, safe and economical' energy supply on the basis of renewable energy. It claims sustainability is the core of its business activity, and more than 250,000 households, companies, and associations are using its energy products, which are focused on the areas of electricity, heating and mobility and include energy delivery, energy production, energy infrastructure and decentralised energy supply.…
bewirk.sh is an initiative that does educational work regarding global climate change and possibilities for individual-level action. The focus is on the individual and their responsibility to live on earth sustainably. The goal of the initiative is to motivate and enable individuals to be part of a living democracy and a society with citizens who are active in their community, their city district or their neighbourhood and take action together to promote the energy transition and protect the climate.…
SmartGridsBW is a platform for the energy sector, industry, politics and science. Its purpose is to enhance intelligently networking energies - bringing people together with commitment in order to work together on the energy future. Founded in 2013, the Smart Grids-Plattform Baden-Württemberg e.V. is a network of central stakeholders from the energy industry, research, politics, IT, industry and interested private individuals. The statutory purpose of the association is to promote smart energy grids in order to make the energy transition as efficient as possible. They work on this together with their approximately 80 members - guided by a nine-member board and with the support of the Baden-W…
The Heidelberg Energy Cooperative - HEG for short - has the goal of effectively countering the climate crisis and offering the young generation a perspective of a future worth living. This is why they are doing their part to build an independent and sustainable energy supply - and everyone can join in. As a cooperative, they are oriented towards the common good and sustainable management and act in such a way that there is a long-term benefit for all. Their project has been long focused on solar power, but it now includes e-mobility and key issues such as tenant prosuming.…
Greenreality is the trademark of the city of Lappeenranta, which aims to be a model city, carbon neutral by 2030, and to create well-being and a sustainable future for the benefit of businesses and residents by leading in renewable energy and green technology. Lappeenranta was, for example, the world’s first city to start using only EKOenergy-certified renewable electricity with zero emissions. To involve citizens and businesses in its quest, the city has, for example, implemented school pledges and a Greenreality network for energy and environmental sector companies and inspired citizens with ideas on how to live a sustainable everyday life on their website. The city has won several Europea…
Ii is a Finnish municipality with around 10,000 inhabitants that has gained recognition as ‘Europe’s Greenest Town’. It had the goal to reduce 80% of its carbon emissions by 2020, 30 years faster than the EU climate target. Economic rationality and citizen involvement have been key success factors for Ii. Ii has adopted sustainable policies that are economically viable and involved citizens and businesses in three focal areas: energy, transport and resource efficiency. Today the municipality is energy independent and uses wind, hydro, and geothermal power plus bio-based fuels and sells the surplus to the grid. Since 2010, Ii has cut its oil consumption by 89% and no longer uses fuels for hea…
The “Towards Resource Wisdom” project was a joint undertaking by the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra and the City of Jyväskylä, where the project was piloted in 2013. The project involved developing an operating model for promoting resource wisdom in medium-sized and large cities and municipalities. The operating model is used to embed resource wisdom in the community as a whole, ranging from the strategy work of city management to the everyday lives of city residents. Introducing the operating model also included the drawing up of a roadmap for resource wisdom by a working group comprising representatives from the city, residents’ associations, businesses and educational institutions. The roa…
The Jätkäsaari Mobility Lab supports the innovation and business development of smart, digital, and sustainable mobility through Public-Private-Research-People collaboration. They invest and assist companies and researchers in testing and developing mobility solutions by enabling tests and pilot projects s in Helsinki’s urban environment whilst operating with a strong network of partners and creators.…
Skaftkärr is a newbuild area in Porvoo, on the south coast of Finland. During the development of the area, several expert organisations and national actors were involved in elaborating a model for energy-efficient town planning. After the development/experimental part of the project was over, the model for energy-efficient town planning was integrated into local town planning; energy efficiency has been made part of the overall city strategy and its business development strategy. Several permanent structures were also retained after the experiment: for example, a permanent working group for different branches of the local administration and stakeholders like the energy, water and waste compa…