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EWO is still a long way from its goals - things are looking bad when it comes to heat and traffic

2022-11-28T09:09:28.587Z


EWO is still a long way from its goals - things are looking bad when it comes to heat and traffic Created: 11/28/2022, 10:02 am Thinking about the future of energy: (from left) Stefan Drexlmeier, Alexander Rossner, Johann Niggl and Simone Tornow. © Alfred Schubert In the course of the energy transition, more and more environmentally friendly electricity is being generated from solar energy in t


EWO is still a long way from its goals - things are looking bad when it comes to heat and traffic

Created: 11/28/2022, 10:02 am

Thinking about the future of energy: (from left) Stefan Drexlmeier, Alexander Rossner, Johann Niggl and Simone Tornow.

© Alfred Schubert

In the course of the energy transition, more and more environmentally friendly electricity is being generated from solar energy in the Oberland.

However, little progress has been made in heat generation.

The share of natural gas in heating even increased between 2016 and 2019.

Penzberg – When the community foundation “Energiewende im Oberland” (EWO) “was founded by visionary people in 2005”, according to the chairman of the foundation board, Josef Keller, it had set itself a high goal: by 2035 only renewable energies should be used in the EWO’s action area be used.

But now that she's "17 and growing up soon," as Keller put it, she's still a long way from her goals.

While things are already looking good for electricity, since around half now comes from renewable sources, things are still looking very bad for heat and in the transport sector.

Only 15 percent of the heat is regenerative, with traffic it is only five percent, as EWO employee Christiane Regauer explained to the around 100 visitors who came to the donors' meeting in the Penzberg town hall.

Not very great advances in heat production

According to Regauer, there was not much progress in heat generation between 2016 and 2019.

Although the share of heating oil has fallen from 20 to eleven percent, the share of natural gas has increased from 65 to 67 percent.

The share of renewable energies has risen from ten to 13 percent, the rest is covered by district heating, which Regauer did not break down in more detail.

Heat transition is a “very hot topic”

For energy consultant Andreas Scharli, the heat transition is a "very hot topic".

In the heating sector, the course would have to be set anew in order to exploit the savings potential.

This starts with optimizing the heating settings, which doesn't cost anything, and extends to the construction of village heating systems.

The final panel discussion, in which the chairman of the foundation, Stefan Drexlmeier, Simone Tornow from the hydrogen initiative "H2 Süd", Johann Niggl from the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Alexander Rossner from the Peißenberg energy cooperative, was all about the future of energy supply.

“Unfortunately, many ideologists are at work in Berlin”

Niggl sees an acceleration of the energy transition because "the war brought a boost".

One problem is that "unfortunately there are many ideologues at work in Berlin".

Niggl calls for an increase in photovoltaic output from 16 to 40 gigawatts, "one terawatt hour more for hydroelectric power" and the construction of more wind turbines.

In addition, power generation and power consumption would have to be brought together spatially.

Rossner believes it is important not to distribute the profits from energy cooperatives, but to invest them in new projects.

New systems would have to be built as Agri-PV so that animals, for example, could graze under the elevated solar modules.

In this way, no land is lost to agriculture.

Great potential that has so far hardly been used

Tornow sees hydrogen, which is generated with the help of excess solar power, as a way of storing energy and making it usable for various applications.

There is great potential here that has hardly been tapped so far.

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The EWO currently has 265 members, including 86 of the 94 municipalities in the four districts involved.

In the Miesbach and Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen districts, all municipalities are members, in the Weilheim-Schongau district only Burggen is not included, and in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district there are seven municipalities.

The EWO offers, among other things, advice on energy issues and information events for schoolchildren.

Text: Alfred Schubert

Source: merkur

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