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The New Year's Eve powder vapor has been blown away by the wind and the discussion about the sense and nonsense of fireworks and firecrackers has once again been sat out by those responsible. Despite heavy media coverage, there has been no sustained reaction. The same game awaits us again at the end of the year. This means that now is the right time to take a critical look at the issue of emissions.

Looking back one year after the ceremonial blessing of the iKWK plant: The Gammel Engineering team worked closely with the Bad Reichenhall public utility company to develop the concept for the innovative energy center for the pioneering district heating project and planned the entire technology. This flagship project was made possible thanks to iKWK federal funding. The result is a heating network with a route length of approx. 7.5 km. Natural gas CHP units, groundwater heat pumps and a power-to-heat system, combined with a large heat storage tank and a peak load boiler, cover the heat demand.

District heating expansion is a key component of the energy transition. The demand for "clean", CO2-free heat from natural wood chips is also unbroken in Hersbruck. Together with our energy partner HEWA, Naturenergie Hersbruck has been expanding for years. A tripling of the buffer volume to compensate for peak loads in the grid by 50 cubic meters is currently being completed and commissioned. Many thanks to the companies involved and above all to our operator team at ForstServiceGmbh for the perfect handling on site.

The Naturenergie Hersbruck biomass cogeneration plant has been reliably supplied with forest chips from the region by our main shareholders for almost 20 years. These are the members of Forstservicegesellschaft Nürnberger Land mbH, a 100% FBG subsidiary. In the past, the fuel deliveries were weighed using a single-axle scale. We were "recommended" a large truck scale by the responsible calibration office. This was installed in November 2022 and then calibrated and put into operation. We look forward to the best weighing results! Many thanks to our operating team for their commitment to this construction project!

In our planning project for the district of Neustadt a. d. Waldnaab, general refurbishment of the multi-purpose gymnasium, our project manager Frank Ulbrich was able to coordinate the installation of the new external air towers for the gymnasium's ventilation system today.

ZES was established over 20 years ago to supply primarily municipal buildings with renewable heat energy from biomass.

The Bundestag and Bundesrat have passed the Substitute Power Plant Provision Act (EKBG). This authorizes the government to limit or even ban the operation of natural gas-based power generation plants in the event of a gas shortage.

As part of the event "Kreis Energieeffizienz Oberfranken 2/2022 - Strategien für die Dekarbonisierung" on 12.07.2022 at the bayme vbm office Upper Franconia in Coburg, we had the opportunity to report on the topic of decarbonization.

The print media, internet, television and radio are flooding us with reports on highly efficient technologies that will supply us with electricity, heat, cooling and fuel from renewable energies in the future. Exciting projects with hydrogen technologies are presented on a daily basis, engines and turbines are "H2-ready" and energy efficiency measures in industry and commerce are booming, as is the decarbonization of district heating networks in cities and municipalities. One would think that the climate targets set by politicians could easily be achieved with the wide range of project activities.

Repair and recycle instead of throwing away? The massive difficulties in globally networked supply chains in the recent past clearly show us that we need completely new approaches to dealing with resources.

Natural gas - How do political decisions influence our current energy supply? The topic of natural gas as an energy source is more topical than ever. We cannot phase out the fossil fuel with the smallest CO2 footprint overnight.

The Neukölln Clinic with its 1,000 beds is spread over an area of 20 hectares. "If the central energy supply at a site like this, there are cross-connections that you don't know about." Our project manager Thomas Winkler was aware of the special features in Berlin right from the start in Berlin right from the start. Now the heat supply has been successfully put on a completely new footing and officially put into operation.