Among other things, roof areas of residential buildings are to be made available on which SWM photovoltaic systems are to be erected and operated

03/16/2023

Source: Energy & Management Powernews

New partnership for the energy transition in Munich: Stadtwerke is now cooperating with a housing company in the Free State. The goal is neighborhood and tenant power models.

Decentralized energy generation, energy storage, charging solutions, digitization of buildings - Stadtwerke München (SWM) wants to push all this for the "Stadibau". The Gesellschaft für den Staatsbedienstetenwohnungsbau in Bayern mbH and the municipal utility have agreed on a cooperation for this purpose.

The housing company with seat in Munich wants among other things roof surfaces of its housing buildings to make available. On these, SWM is to erect and operate photovoltaic systems for the priority supply of green electricity to tenants.

First common projects are already converted, communicate the public utilities. For example, several photovoltaic systems with a total output of 200 kW are currently being built on a site in the north of Munich. Further projects, both in existing buildings and on new ones, are in the planning stage. Cooperation on the use of tenant electricity is to be further expanded. In addition, the first buildings are already being equipped with charging solutions for e-mobility.

SWM CEO Florian Bieberbach highlighted local cooperation as a lever to expand renewable energy generation in the region itself, which he mainly counted as geothermal energy and heat pumps in addition to PV.

Andreas Nietsch, managing director of Stadibau, explained that with this energy partnership, the company was following the "guideline of pursuing high-quality and thus long-term resource-saving portfolio development in all projects, both from an ecological and an economic point of view."

The Stadibau is one of three housing companies of the Free State of Bavaria. According to its own information, the company owns 8,500 apartments in Bavaria, of which about 5,000 are in Munich. 900 apartments are built according to it straight, further 1,000 dwellings planned.

Author: Manfred Fischer