The IEP in Pullach is expanding its portfolio and is now offering regionally generated green electricity.
For every new contract, the community subsidiary donates 50 euros to a good cause.
Pullach
- The IEP in Pullach is expanding its portfolio and is now offering regionally generated green electricity. A social component is connected to the new product - for every electricity contract that is concluded, the community subsidiary transfers 50 euros to the Isartaler table. New electricity customers can also voluntarily pay one cent more for each kilowatt hour; the roughly 30 euros that this brings together each year also goes to the grocery store.
"We want to have a positive effect on all the screws," said Mayor Susanna Tausendfreund (Greens) recently at a press conference.
The energy supply is "an important part of communal services of general interest".
After the municipality was able to take over the power grid from Bayernwerk two years ago after a lengthy legal dispute, it is now able to act as an electricity provider.
"We have reserved a disc there."
This makes Pullach the first municipality in Upper Bavaria and one of only eight municipalities across Bavaria that sells green electricity produced on the doorstep in a new cooperation with Bayernwerk Regio Energie GmbH. This electricity is initially drawn from the Baierbrunn hydropower plant, which, as IEP managing director Helmut Mangold explained, generates up to 1.8 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year. “We reserved a window there.” Expect 100 to 300 electricity customers in the first year. Other green electricity providers in the region would be available if required, such as the Weidachmühle power plant. Mangold: "We only want to tap into local power sources." In addition, work is being done to provide electricity from solar energy, and the community is planning a small wind farm, according to Tausendfreund,with Neuried and Baierbrunn in Forstenrieder Park, too, as is well known. The whole thing is "difficult to prepare".
With the opening of a regional electricity market, said Mangold, the IEP is rounding off its product range.
With a sales price of 26.20 cents per kilowatt-hour, however, nothing can be earned; the aim is to better serve customers who like to purchase all products “from a single source”.
Thomas Oppelt, on the other hand, head of the local electricity markets at Bayernwerk AG, spoke of a “great cooperation.
Pullach becomes a pioneer for the real energy future ”.
First green electricity customers
Johannes Schuster, chairman of the Isartaler Tisch, was also extremely satisfied.
“I am grateful,” he said, that it was “a very innovative idea to combine power supply and social projects”.
Incidentally, the IEP already has its first electricity customers.
The Isartaler Tisch has switched to green regional electricity, as has Johannes Burges, former FDP municipal council and IEP supervisory board member.
A citizen is already getting green electricity up close.
Evelyn Heinsdorf also came to the project presentation, saying that she wanted to change providers anyway.
And I hope that, should there ever be problems, she will reach someone: "I would like someone to listen to me in case of doubt."
You can find more news from Pullach and the district of Munich here.
