Competence Centre for Municipal Heat Transition (KWW)
The Competence Centre for Municipal Heat Transition (KWW) provides quality-assured information, work templates, first-hand knowledge transfer and a network of experts and other municipalities for all aspects of Municipal Heat Planning and the heat transition in municipalities.
The KWW is a project by the Deutsche Energie-Agentur GmbH (dena) and has been working on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) since opening in Halle, Germany in April 2022.
Constant dialogue with stakeholders and Municipal Heat Planning pioneers is an important component for comprehensive knowledge building. With the broad-based KWW Advisory Board and the KWW Expert Council, the KWW has set up permanent committees that consolidate professional dialogue on Municipal Heat Planning.
The heat transition and Municipal Heat Planning
Germany has set itself the goal of being climate – neutral by 2045. This is the aim of the energy transition in Germany. The heat transition, i.e., the transformation towards a climate-neutral heat supply, is the largest component of this. However, there is no single approach to the heat transition as a whole. Instead, many local heat transition projects are being driven forward – in over 10,700 municipalities, with different requirements and at different speeds.
The transformation of the heat supply, from heat sources to infrastructures and changing demands, is fragmented and complex. Municipalities need clear guidelines and support services for this key pillar of the energy transition. Municipal Heat Planning provides central guidance for this. It is a strategic instrument that helps municipalities to develop and implement their own plan.
The heat transition offers many advantages. In addition to achieving the legal targets, the switch to regionally generated renewable heat offers long-term stability and independence. This planning certainty is increasingly becoming a locational advantage encouraging new businesses to areas. In this way, the heat transition promotes local value creation through heat generation. Municipal Heat Planning reduces the complexity of the heat transition, creates prospects and aids quick realisation.
Services provided by the KWW for municipalities
As a central exchange platform and network coordinator, the KWW helps to systematise experiences and develop solutions for the Municipal Heat Transition. The impetus provided by the KWW supports the nationwide heat transition by establishing Municipal Heat Planning as a strategic instrument with which municipalities can achieve a local and efficient heat supply.
As a central knowledge platform, the KWW pools knowledge gained on applied Municipal Heat Planning and prepares this for the simplest possible transfer. This provides municipal authorities and policy-makers as well as other local stakeholders with guidance and help to help themselves.
The KWW provides:
- the KWW website as a comprehensive knowledge platform with an information centre, events calendar and subject-specific pages
- work templates and tools for the planning process (e.g., sample service specifications or the KWW heat transition atlas)
- online seminars, lectures and the major KWW conference with information and discussion programmes
- telephone consultations
- various networks and working groups
- materials for public relations work and acceptance communication (e.g., animated films or the Heat Team Planning Game)
- up-to-date information via the ‘KWW kompakt’ newsletter, the KWW LinkedIn channel
Heat Team Planning Game
The Heat Team Planning Game promotes dialogue and cooperation between the stakeholders involved in the Municipal Heat Transition. They gain insight into local heat planning, technical understanding and, thanks to the cooperative style of play, a basis for future collaboration. The game allows participants to jump to the target year, which can be chosen flexibly, and asks them to put together a joint vision of a climate-neutral heat supply at this point in time. The various technologies, energy sources and energy principles are depicted as footballers with strengths and weaknesses that need to be combined to form a locally customised team. The team is set up by jointly weighing up, prioritising and rejecting the technologies.
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