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No. 03/2021
29/06/2021
German Energy Solutions News
Welcome to the current edition of the newsletter of the Germany Energy Solutions Initiative. In the bi-monthly editions we keep you up to date with the latest information about German energy solutions. Furthermore you will learn about opportunities to meet German business partners around the world. This newsletter service is provided by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and is free of charge.
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In April, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia (AHK) presented awards for energy efficiency to a cluster of outstanding projects in an initiative supported by the BMWi’s German Energy Solutions Initiative programme. The versatile projects included the Jože Pučnik Airport – Slovenia’s largest international airport near Ljubljana – where a Central Energy System was installed in 2019 to supply the entire airport complex with heating and cooling. Meanwhile, just outside Slovenia's capital, a project called ‘Low-Energy Kindergarten Kamnitnik’ is now delivering heat and cooling to a brand new nursery building tapping the potential of shallow geothermal energy. Find out more about the awarded projects and other examples of German energy solutions in Slovenia.
In the future, farmers could operate micro biorefineries on their land and make intermediate products on site, thanks to a ground-breaking initiative from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Hohenheim. The biogenic plant residues that are produced as agricultural by-products have a wide range of potential uses – including providing the raw materials for synthetic fuels and materials for packaging, car parts and eco-friendly furniture. A pilot plant is to be set up at the university that will serve as a blueprint for the implementation of small-scale bio-plants.
Two electrochemists from the Leibniz Institute for New Materials in the German state of Saarland have developed a ground-breaking technique for desalinating seawater which is of crucial importance to the Power2Gas industry. In an experiment so simple it could be carried out in high school, they used a fuel cell to first obtain freshwater from salinated water, which could then be used in the fuel cell to produce hydrogen.
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Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
Public Relations Division
10119 Berlin www.bmwk.de
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events 2023: coordination office of the German Energy Solutions Initiative
Events: BMWK/Blumentritt
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