Municipal heat planning
Sustainable heat supply: Municipal heat planning is a key step on the way to a climate-neutral and sustainable heat supply for Wiesbaden. It makes a significant contribution to climate protection and improves the quality of life.
Approximately half of the energy actually consumed (final energy) in Germany is used for heating, hot water, and similar purposes. This results in correspondingly high climate-damaging CO₂ emissions – but also high potential savings. Municipal heat planning (KWP) shows how heat supply can be made more climate-friendly. It provides important information and guidance for politicians, administrators, energy suppliers, companies, and private households.
Gradual switch to climate-neutral heating systems
The aim of heat planning is to make heat supply in Wiesbaden efficient, economical, and, above all, environmentally friendly. As a first step, energy consumption in the heating sector was surveyed and a heat register was created. This serves as the basis for further planning and was developed in cooperation between the city, network operators, and ESWE Versorgungs AG.
Currently, around 81 percent of residential buildings are heated with gas or oil. In order to achieve the goal of climate neutrality by 2045 at the latest, around eight percent of these buildings must be converted to climate-neutral heating systems each year.
A challenge for the city as a whole
Reducing CO₂ emissions requires the coordinated use of available resources and the development of a sustainable infrastructure. However, municipal heat planning also focuses on social aspects. Affordable heat supply is a key objective, and citizens are actively involved in achieving this goal.
How does municipal heat planning work?
Municipal heat planning (KWP) begins with a suitability assessment and an analysis of the current situation and potential. The suitability assessment examines whether there are areas for which a shortened planning procedure is possible. The subsequent analyses show the current state of the heat supply and the potential for reducing heat demand, using renewable energies, and storing heat.
What is the aptitude test?
What does the inventory analysis include?
What does the potential analysis show?
The draft is available: Participation starts
Presentation of the results in the urban digital twin
The results of the analysis are visualized in the urban digital twin of the city of Wiesbaden. There, heat consumption, existing heat generators, and energy sources, among other things, can be viewed interactively at the district and neighborhood level.
Do you have any questions?
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