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News Federal funding for efficient buildings: evaluation of the 2022 funding year published
With the Federal Subsidy for Efficient Buildings (BEG), the German government is supporting both refurbishment efforts and the construction of new, energy-efficient buildings. Together with its...
morePublication Handreichung: Genug Stadt Krisen
Impulse für eine suffizienzorientierte Stadtentwicklung und nachhaltige Bodenpolitik
Die Publikation richtet sich an Menschen aus der kommunalen Verwaltung und Politik, Planungs- und Architekturbüros, der Immobilienwirtschaft und an die interessierte…
Authors:
Patrick Zimmermann
Year:
2024
News Potential analysis: waste heat could cover up to 10 per cent of Berlin's future heating requirements
Companies such as data centres, large bakeries and coffee roasting plants generate a lot of heat, most of which has so far been released into the environment unused. The sum of all this heat can...
moreNews Evaluation reports published - National Climate Initiative is effective
Since 2008, the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWK) have been funding climate...
moreProject SFH: Quo Vadis?
Runtime 12/2023 – 07/2025
The single-family home (SFH) continues to be highly relevant as a form of housing in Germany. Living in your own home fulfils many needs for security, self-realisation and prosperity, and the...
moreNews Sufficiency practices in urban districts: BMBF City of the Future*Tour reaches its last stop in Heidelberg
What should the city of the future look like? How will our cities become liveable, CO2 -neutral, climate-adapted, energy- and resource-efficient? Around 50 research teams have been developing...
morePublication Scientific support and impact assessment for a basic funding program for the transformation of heating networks
Final report, preliminary version Service in accordance with the framework agreement to advise Department II of the BMWi
Around three quarters of district heating generation is based on the direct use of fossil fuels, in particular coal and gas-fired combined heat and power plants. District heating…
Authors:
Martin Pehnt,
Sebastian Blömer,
Angelika Paar
Year:
2023
Publication Supporting sufficiency approaches in the building sector
In order to comply with the ecological limits, Germany has set itself various targets relevant to the building sector. First and foremost, Germany is committed for greenhouse gas…
Authors:
Patrick Zimmermann
Year:
2023
News Local council adopts heating plan for Heidelberg
The roadmap for implementing the heating transition in Heidelberg was adopted by the municipal council on November 15. The main focus: the large-scale expansion of "green" district heating. The...
moreNews Your PV system can do more: Become a research household in the "ProSufficiency" project
Would you like to install a PV system in 2024 and get more than just electricity out of your system? Then join "ProSufficiency", the research project for smart homeowners funded by the Federal...
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- Energy 475
- Methods & Tools 7
- Mobility 225
- Nutritional transition 101
- Resources 213
- Industry and products 108
- Biomass 334