Sustainable bioenergy villages

The aim of this project is to prepare bioenergy villages for the time after the 20-year EEG remuneration and to develop future prospects. To this end, existing research results and innovations are being collected, tested in practice in two real laboratories and discussed with an advisory board consisting of around 20 bioenergy villages. The measures to be developed are in the areas of residual material recycling (increasing the proportion of farm manure, feed and harvest residues and municipal biomass), ecological optimization of existing cultivation concepts, alternative electricity marketing with a focus on regional green electricity marketing and regional flexibility markets as well as supplementary innovative technologies for local heating supply.

As a result, a guideline and a transfer platform will be developed, which will present the various measures for bioenergy villages under different framework conditions, as well as policy recommendations.

The joint project is coordinated by the Department of Economics with a focus on decentralized energy management at the University of Kassel. The Department of Solar and Plant Technology at the University of Kassel and the Geological Institute, Department of Cartography, GIS and Remote Sensing at the Georg August University of Göttingen are also involved in the project.

The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture from February 2019 to January 2022 with a total budget of approx. 611,400 euros.

Contact:

Dr. Ines Wilkens
University of Kassel
Department of Economics with a focus on                                      
decentralized energy industry
Phone: +49 561 804-7949
Email: ines.wilkens[at]uni-kassel[dot]de