In Miesbach, 30 representatives from eleven municipalities, one city and one district met - all over the Oberland.
Your goal: to push the energy transition.
Landkreis - It is a question that politicians at all levels are currently asking - or, in the opinion of the majority of scientists, should ask: How can the energy transition succeed by 2035?
There is no simple answer to that in the Oberland either.
But: There are concrete efforts to implement it in the ranks of local politics.
In Miesbach, around 30 representatives from a total of eleven municipalities, one city and one district, recently met - spread across the entire Oberland.
Together they want to try to find an answer in the future in order to find solutions and benefit from synergies.
Major goals under one roof - climate protection - should be achieved together in regular meetings.
To this end, the communities of Fischbachau, Gmund, Hausham and Otterfing as well as the city of Tegernsee, the market town of Holzkirchen and the district itself signed the declaration for the establishment of an energy efficiency network.
Advantages of the network: professional competence, exchange and active tackling
The communities Benediktbeuern and Egling are from the neighboring district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen.
The municipalities of Pähl, Polling and Bernried from the Weilheim-Schongau district also joined the network;
This is also the case with the municipality of Tutzing from the Starnberg district, which is no longer part of the Oberland, but pursues the same goals as its new partners.
Invited to the meeting were Stefan Drexlmeier, chairman of the board of the Energiewende Oberland community foundation.
The network is professionally supported by the Institute for Sustainable Energy Supply (INEV) at the Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences and the competence center of the community foundation.
This is where Otterfings' mayor Michael Falkenhahn, who greeted the guests on their behalf, sees the greatest advantages of the network.
After the event, he said in an interview with our newspaper: “The technical competence that is brought in is valuable to us.” Small and medium-sized communities like Otterfing could not afford a full-time climate manager.
"Nevertheless: We are all committed to the tasks that climate change brings with it, and we want to actively tackle them." He and many of his counterparts had seen these days how real the danger of climate change is on their own doorstep, he said Otterfinger facing the storm.
Three-year cooperation funded by the Federal Environment Ministry
Falkenhahn expects a lot from the network: “What have other communities already tried?
What works well?
Which mistakes can be avoided?
It could become a pool of ideas, ”said the mayor.
According to Falkenhahn, the members pay around 5,000 euros a year for this.
“A good investment, which the local council also supports.” The Federal Environment Ministry supports the network and energy advice with up to 70 percent of the costs.
The next meeting will take place in October.
For the agenda of the three-year collaboration, Drexlmeier names "classic topics such as energy efficiency in municipal properties, energy management systems, local heating networks or e-mobility".
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