JenErgieReal
Real-world laboratory of the energy transition
The city of Jena, together with the Stadtwerke Jena Group and jenawohnen as well as other partners from practice, science and industry, wants to work out how cities can be supplied with electricity and heat energy in the future in a real-world laboratory for the energy transition. The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection is funding the implementation of the project in Jena with around 20.4 million euros over a period of five years.
In 2019, JenErgieReal was one of 20 winning projects nationwide in the "Real-world laboratories for the energy transition ideas competition" organized by the then Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. More than 90 ideas were submitted in total. JenErgieReal was the only Thuringian entry to make it into the selection of projects eligible for funding. The city of Jena is now launching a real-world laboratory for the energy transition together with Stadtwerke Jena and other partners from science, the housing sector and industry.
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Details of the overall project
JenErgieReal sees itself as a blueprint for the future holistic supply of renewable electrical and thermal energy. In particular, the overarching consideration of all parts of the urban energy system - from the producer to the end consumer - from transport to industry and commerce to housing - could make Jena a pilot location for the transformation of energy supply in cities.
JenErgieReal aims to develop a municipal energy transition based on renewable energies and to test it in practice. The results will be demonstrated as a real laboratory in the city of Jena. On the one hand, the entire urban area will be included, and on the other, energy technology measures will be implemented in parts of a neighborhood.
"Urban and neighborhood development" sub-project
The sub-project "Urban and Neighborhood Development", for which the City of Jena is responsible, aims to look at the societal and social aspects that can be relevant for the development of cities and neighborhoods in addition to the energy industry framework conditions. The energy transition should be democratic and gender-equitable and combine centralized and decentralized concepts.
In the renewable energy system, citizens as prosumers (producers and consumers), planners and investors in the energy supply are moving to the center of attention alongside the major energy producers and networkers and the housing industry players; the innovative approaches of the citizen energy movements must also be taken up for this purpose.
The supply of renewable energies and the balancing of the energy system will also take place to a large extent at the local and regional level and will therefore require an intensification of inter-municipal cooperation in the medium term. Regional supply through citizen energy communities could thus represent a complementary level to the local level.