The Future of Energy in Fuchstal
bifa provides advice and support for showcase municipalities in innovative energy projects
To achieve a comprehensive sustainable supply of energy, in addition to power generation and heat provision, mobility must also be dealt with. Sector coupling, energy conversion and storage processes are indispensable elements for increased use of renewable energy. This is now becoming reality in Fuchstal.
With our support and that of our project partner, the consultants Ingenieurbüro Sing, the Fuchstal municipality in the rural district of Landkreis Landsberg am Lech successfully applied for a funded project under the national climate change initiative of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit). In this project, large-scale technological elements for sector coupling and energy storage in the community are being implemented. These are an electricity store, a power-to-heat plant and a heat store. The units are coupled with the existing wind farm and the existing heat network.
After planning the technical details, the realisation is now starting this year, the second of the three project years. To this end, calls for tender were published for the individual units and the tenders received were examined. Extensive discussions were held with the tenderers of the three system components in order to clarify all questions in advance. The district council has passed the resolutions agreeing the suppliers for the heat store, the power-to-heat plant and the electricity store. bifa is assisting and advising the municipality and the firm of consultant engineers during the entire project period.
In the meantime, the Fuchstal municipality is already forging further turn of energy policies plans and, with bifa at its side, has successfully participated in the "Hyland" hydrogen competition of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur). As a ‘Hystarter’, Fuchstal is currently examining options for sustainable mobility as the next step on its way to the energy future.
Due to its citizens’ wind farm with four wind turbines, numerous photovoltaic systems and a heat network fed with heat from the CHPs of a biogas plant, the Fuchstal municipality is already a showcase community and in July 2020 was officially recognised as a shaper in the turn of energy policies team of Hubert Aiwanger (Bavarian Minister of State for Economic Affairs, State Development and Energy).
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Dr. Wolfram Dietz
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