Bonn/Simmern, 31 August 2023 – The Rhine-Hunsrück district is the primary district in Germany to be awarded the ERNEUERBAR district certificates in platinum. Which means that all companies, public administration, societies and associations within the district can now show that 193% of their electrical energy consumption is roofed by electrical energy from native renewable vitality sources. The crops within the Rhine-Hunsrück district thus produce nearly twice as a lot electrical energy as all of the inhabitants and firms within the district would eat mathematically in the event that they have been to require precisely the German per capita consumption.
From left: Stefan Gsänger (Global100RE), Volker Boch (District Mayor Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis), Johannes Lackmann. Foto: Verena Kaspar / RHE
District Mayor Volker Boch is happy concerning the award: “This nationwide appreciation for the event of our area with regard to local weather safety is a good honour for our municipalities, firms and residents, who’ve completed this pioneering work collectively. On the identical time, it’s an incentive for us to persistently develop the regional vitality transition additional. We will show that we generally is a position mannequin not solely within the manufacturing of vitality, but additionally in saving and storing vitality,” mentioned District Administrator Volker Boch, “I’m satisfied that we will and can develop additional pioneering initiatives.”
The certificates was introduced to him by Stefan Gsänger, board member of the Bonn-based World 100% Renewable Power Platform, and Johannes Lackmann, member of the knowledgeable advisory board and initiator of the ERNEUERBAR-Kreis challenge. Lackmann defined the background: “We need to award those that contribute to the transformation of our vitality system with actual crops on website. The electrical energy is produced right here, with the crops that residents see each day. That’s way more sincere than if an organization solely buys digital ensures of origin, calculates its electrical energy consumption inexperienced and in actually solely transfers cash to the operators of Norwegian hydropower crops.”
Stefan Gsänger emphasised that the introduction of the certificates is an instrument for his affiliation to drive competitors amongst municipal actors for a high place within the growth of renewable energies: “For 100% renewable energies, we’d like the growth of wind, solar, biomass and co. all over the place, in Germany and internationally. Native dedication is the important thing to this. As a world platform, we’re launching this award in Germany as a result of there are lighthouse municipalities right here which are growing each nationwide and worldwide charisma. That’s the reason we’re significantly happy to award the Rhine-Hunsrück district, as it’s undoubtedly a supra-regional position mannequin.”
The challenge advisory board of the World 100% Renewable Power Platform contains vitality economists reminiscent of Professor Uwe Leprich, former district presidents and district councillors who’re dedicated to the native vitality transition.
Now each firm within the Rhine-Hunsrück district can promote the excessive proportion of renewable vitality that’s demonstrably utilized in its manufacturing. Anybody who needs to make use of the brand of their communication, for instance on their letterhead, their very own web site or of their electronic mail signature, can write an electronic mail to put up@erneuerbar-kreis.de or contact the district administration in Simmern: fm.uhle@rheinhunsrueck.de
“We hope that many firms from all areas in Germany will now additionally apply for the certificates for his or her district,” says Stefan Gsänger, inviting firms and administrations from throughout Germany to affix in. Extra info may be discovered at www.erneuerbar-kreis.de.
(This press launch has been initially printed in German language on www.erneuerbar-kreis.de)
