Raunheim wants to become self-sufficient: heat and electricity from the village

BMayor Thomas Jühe (SPD) wants to provide Raunheim with each electricity and heat independently in the future. He introduced this on Fb. The plans are bold. By 2025, for instance, virtually all households in the metropolis are to be equipped through the metropolis’s personal heating community – primarily with waste heat from information facilities.

In accordance to the mayor, the challenge is exclusive in Hesse. It’s the metropolis’s largest infrastructure challenge in the previous 30 years. “Town of Raunheim intends to arrange an ecological and economical heat and vitality provide for all households in Raunheim.”

Sustainable native heating community

Motion should be taken rapidly as a result of the consistently rising vitality costs are hitting the individuals of Raunheim, whose buying energy is especially low, exhausting. The administration has additionally obtained the order from the metropolis parliament to considerably scale back the emission of dangerous greenhouse gases in the metropolis space. That will not be simple, as a result of greater than 80 p.c of the residential buildings in the metropolis are heated with fossil fuels.

Town has now discovered an answer mannequin with which it might profit from sustainable, cost-effective vitality. Due to this fact, a city-wide native heating community ought to be arrange, to which each and every family can join in the future. This community is to be constructed largely with federal funds. The mayor wants to acquire free vitality from the giant information middle presently underneath building on the japanese outskirts of the metropolis. As well as, a number of small satellite tv for pc information facilities are deliberate, and the current heating plant in the Ringstraße district, which is operated with wooden chips, can be to be built-in into the vitality provide.

Cheap regional electricity

As well as to the heat provide, Jühe wants to arrange bigger photovoltaic methods on the outskirts of Raunheim. In accordance to the mayor, it is a future challenge that also requires detailed planning. The so-called regional electricity is exempt from many surcharges and can due to this fact be made out there to residents at a a lot lower cost than standard electricity.

One chance to arrange a photovoltaic system can be on the website of the earlier hearth station, which is to be demolished. Equipping flat roofs accordingly can be an choice, as would utilizing a bigger open house in the west of the metropolis. If these initiatives have been developed rapidly, the inhabitants of Raunheim may in future be equipped independently and, above all, inexpensively with domestically generated heating vitality and electricity.