Sustainable bioenergy villages

The aim of this project is to prepare bioenergy villages for the time after the 20-year EEG subsidy and to develop future perspectives. For this purpose, existing research results and innovations are collected, tested in practice in two real laboratories and discussed with a practical advisory board of about 20 bioenergy villages. The measures to be developed are in the areas of residue utilization (increasing the share of farm manure, feed and crop 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, and complementary innovative technologies for local heat supply.

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

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

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

Contact:

Dr. Ines Wilkens
University of Kassel
Department of Economics with focus on                                      
decentralized energy economy
Tel.: +49 561 804-7949
E-Mail: ines.wilkens[at]uni-kassel[dot]de