KommWeiter: Implementing the Municipal Heating Transition Synthesis and Research Transfer
Municipal heat planning is a key component of a future climate-neutral heat supply. For the heating transition to succeed, it is crucial that the measures and projects specified in the heat plans are implemented locally. There are many challenges involved in drawing up and implementing municipal heat plans. Among other things, there is often a lack of the necessary financial and human resources. In addition, the heating transition also requires venturing into unknown territory and tackling new, cross-stakeholder collaborations as well as business and financing models. In order to guarantee the success and acceleration of the heating transition, it is particularly important that experiences and insights, as well as developed tools and methods, are shared, jointly developed and disseminated among the relevant stakeholders.
This is where the KommWeiter project comes in, with the project team evaluating research projects throughout Germany that are part of the BMWE's funding priority ‘From Plan to Transition’. The projects are testing innovative ways to implement municipal heating plans while successfully addressing the diverse challenges of the municipal heating transition and the energy system. The aim of the KommWeiter project is to connect practitioners and pool knowledge in order to support the implementation of the heating transition. A particular focus is placed on local authorities. Meta-analyses, trend analyses, and environmental analyses are used to compare results and bring them together in a synthesis.
The project team organises thematic workshops and networking meetings with the projects of the funding priority, which serve to exchange information, disseminate results and develop overarching findings.
Results are shared and discussed through various formats, such as the existing event series ‘Komm.InFahrt’ or ‘SW.aktiv’, which are specifically aimed at local authorities and municipal utilities. A group of multipliers continuously accompanies the project activities.
