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Geothermal part of project to explore renewables-based heating in city of Hamburg

By District Energy posted 09-10-2019 00:00

  

Alexander Richter, Think Geoenergy

Summary

An innovative project has won as part of a competition by Germany's Federal Ministry of Economics. With that Hamburg's municipal energy provider can now secure subsidies for a planned project to enable renewable energy based district heating supply, including geothermal.

In July of this year, German Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier announced a project by utility HAMBURG ENERGIE as one of the winners of the ideas competition “Reallabore der Energiewende”. As a result, Hamburg’s municipal energy provider now has the opportunity to secure subsidies for a future project that will enable a reliable and affordable district heating supply based on renewable energies.

To this end, the company intends to prototype a concept in the district of Wilhelmsburg, which will serve as a blueprint for the heat supply of the future for Hamburg and beyond. Around 90 consortia from all over Germany submitted their project sketches to the ideas competition as part of the 7th Energy Research Program of the Federal Ministry of Economics (BMWi). In total, funding for the period from 2019 to 2022 of up to EUR 100 million per year has been awarded.

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