Bavarian network to promote green district heating

Source: Energy & Management Powernews, July 18, 2022

To support municipalities in the heat transition, the energy efficiency association AGFW helps to build networks. Another network for more green district heating now starts in Bavaria.

In Upper Bavarian Rosenheim, the Bavarian network of the platform "Green District Heating" has started, the AGFW announced on July 15. With the platform "green district heating", which started in the summer of 2021, the AGFW wants to support the expansion of district heating. In the nationwide project, the association and regional network mentors provide know-how and experience. Cities and municipalities are to receive in such a way orientation on the way to the local heat change and the increased employment of renewable energies.

Because the challenges as well as the circumstances of Land to Land partly very differently fail, so the AGFW, the platform sets on the expertise of regional godfathers beziehunsgweise regional networks. Contacts for interested municipalities in Bavaria are now the public utilities rose home as well as the local heat supplier terrestrial heat green forest.

Rosenheimer model sets on river and warmth from biomass For many years possess for example the public utilities rose home already experiences in the area of the district heating supply. Within the framework of the new AGFW platform, they pass on this knowledge to interested municipalities and municipal utilities from the region. "In this way, we want to contribute to a faster success of the heat turnaround in Bavarian municipalities. Not every municipality has to reinvent the wheel. We help with an initial orientation on what to look out for in the supply of district heating," said sponsor Heiko Peckmann, division manager of technical services and energy market at Stadtwerke Rosenheim.

Such networks in cooperation with the Energy Efficiency Association have already been established in Baden-Württemberg, Thuringia and Hesse in recent months. "Together with the state energy agencies and other partners, we are available with our know-how as a sparring partner. The mayors and department heads currently have a great many tasks ahead of them. We stand in the range of the climaticcareful heat supply gladly as experts ready , say Harald Rapp, range leader urban development with the AGFW and initiator of the platform green remote heat.

More information to the platform gives it under www.gruene-fernwaerme.de.

Author: Heidi Roider