04/26/2023
Source: Energy & Management Powernews
Bad Abbach wants to know where, for example, regenerative heat sources slumber. For this purpose, the Bavarian municipality launches a pilot project with Bayernwerk and the Institute for Energy Technology.
Bayernwerk AG launches a pilot project together with the market Bad Abbach in the district of Kelheim (Eastern Bavaria) and the Institute for Energy Technology (IfE). A municipal heat plan is to be drawn up in order to subsequently redesign heat generation in the spa town on the Danube with concrete measures. The market town council agreed on April 18, the project partners announced on April 24.
"The goal of all involved is (...) to come to concrete implementation plans that show us economically and technically sensible energy solutions for Bad Abbach," explains Benedikt Grünewald, mayor of Bad Abbach. "For the residential as well as especially the commercial location of Bad Abbach, this is an important factor to hold out the prospect of a largely independent energy supply in the market."
In a first step, Bayernwerk and IfE therefore want to "thoroughly" analyze the inventory and draw up an energy and greenhouse gas balance for the Danube community. Likewise, the heating structure of the residential and non-residential buildings as well as the heating and cooling infrastructure are to be determined.
With such an overview, the second step is to determine where concrete savings potentials lie and where local renewable energy can be integrated. Also waste heat potentials of trade as well as waters such as the Danube are to be exhausted here. "A municipal heat plan is intended to lay the economic as well as ecological foundation for this," explains Tobias Stahl, project manager for municipal heat planning at Eon regional utility Bayernwerk.
Finally, a concrete catalog of measures is to be drawn up to achieve the goals. It is to be tailored initially to two to three focus areas in the municipal area. "With the help of the catalog of measures, it will be shown in which parts of the municipality a central heat supply solution, for example through a heat network, is possible and in which time periods. This allows both the municipality and the homeowner (...) to make the decision to renew their own heating system depending on the overarching planning," explains Patrick Dirr, head of the Digital Energy Systems division at IfE.
Municipal heat planning is coming and will be mandatory for cities and municipalities in Germany. In some federal states, such as Baden-Württemberg, it is already mandatory. It is to become the central coordination instrument for the decentralized heat transition. In addition, it is intended to create investment security for the necessary development of infrastructure in the future, especially for heating networks, but also for gas and electricity networks.
What does IfE do?
The main focus of the work of the Institute for Energy Technology IfE GmbH at the East Bavarian Technical University (OTH) Amberg-Weiden is on advising politicians, municipalities, energy suppliers and industrial companies in the areas of energy efficiency, renewable energies and combined heat and power. In addition to the conceptual work, the IfE conducts practice-oriented research and development in the field of cogeneration and renewable energies. It puts the knowledge gained into practice within the framework of model and demonstration projects with scientific-measuring support.
Author: Heidi Roider
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