What would the Ebersberg district look like if it met its energy needs in a climate-neutral manner?
The project “Active Citizens' Experts in Climate Protection and the Energy Transition”, in short: BüKE, deals with this question.
The project participants presented their ideas in a virtual information event.
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- The project runs in cooperation with the German Environmental Aid (DUH), the Technical University of Munich, the Medical School Hamburg and the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics.
The aim is to interest local citizens in the planning of renewable energies and especially to encourage young people to participate.
The silent majority should be activated
“We want to activate the silent majority,” explains Philipp Barthel from DUH.
The heart of the project is a core group in which young people rooted in the district who are neither experts nor elected officials such as local councilors are involved.
In eight workshops, they were given basic knowledge about the energy transition and German planning law. They contribute their knowledge of local conditions and act as multipliers in their own local networks.
3D model shows what the energy transition in the district could look like
The core group has jointly developed a 3D model of what the energy transition in the Ebersberg district could look like.
The group assumed 702 gigawatt hours per year of electricity that should be generated from renewable energies, 39 percent from solar energy on roof surfaces, 28 percent from wind energy, 21 percent from open space photovoltaic systems and 12 percent from biogas systems.
In the case of possible wind power locations, the core group deliberately ignored the five wind turbines currently being discussed in the forest.
Instead, the considerations focused on the communities: “We want to undermine the Saint Florians principle,” explains Barthel.
That means: a fair distribution of 21 wind turbines, if possible, to the 21 district communities.
Attention should be paid to an efficient location in each municipality and a distance of at least 3H to the residential development should be maintained.
With photovoltaics, in addition to the roofs of houses and barns, there is also the option of covering large existing parking spaces, e.g. in front of supermarkets, with solar modules.
In addition, solar bands could be built along the A 94, B 304 and railway lines.
The open-space systems have agricultural modules with elevation so that the area underneath can still be used for agriculture.
Vertical modules that also serve as wind protection are also possible.
The BüKE also visualized these ideas: During a virtual flight over the district, you can see the proposed wind turbines and solar systems both from above and from the perspective of a walker.
