Municipalities want to work together to advance the heat transition
07/12/2023
Source: Energy & Management Powernews Eight Bavarian municipalities want to develop concepts for heat supply together with the district of Munich.
Promoted the idea to establish a consortium (ARGE) in the southeast of Munich, the energy agency Ebersberg-Munich. It had created on behalf of the district for all district municipalities the digital energy use plan, on which the municipal heat planning is to build. Now the municipalities Aying, Brunnthal, Grasbrunn, Hohenbrunn, Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, Neubiberg, Putzbrunn and Taufkirchen together with the administrative district Munich created the "ARGE Geothermie und Wärmewende"
"Due to the dimensions of such planning it is meaningful straight for smaller and middle municipalities to work together on the heat change, instead of considering exclusively the situation in the own municipality area. In this way, potentials can be used in the best possible way and the greatest possible benefit can be achieved," says a joint statement from the district of Munich and the energy agency. The focus of the cooperation is to be on the possibilities of deep geothermal energy, but the potential of other heat sources such as near-surface geothermal energy, wastewater, process heat or biomass are also to be investigated.
"I very much welcome this inter-municipal alliance," says District Administrator Christoph Göbel (CSU), "and am pleased that even municipalities have joined, which due to their size would not have been required by law to submit a heat plan. This is also proof of how seriously climate protection is taken in the district of Munich."
The administrative district is to take over and/or finance also the organizational support of the ARGE in the context of its climate and energy initiative 29++. In addition, it is to assume 50 percent of the costs incurred for the development of specific projects.
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