The aim of the project is the joint development of a municipal heat plan for the city of Halle (Saale).
On the one hand, the municipal heat plan is intended to show a strategy for the transformation of the heat supply towards a decarbonised heat supply. On the other hand, efficiency potentials on the demand side will also be analyzed. The necessary infrastructure for district heating, as well as gas and electricity, are also analysed in the municipal heat plan and their future design is shown.
For the probability of success of the heat transition, it is essential that the plan is also feasible. Therefore, the measures should not only be evaluated according to technical criteria, but also the regulatory and economic aspects must be taken into account. The development of the municipal heat plan should therefore be carried out using the environmental economic approach: Only climate-friendly and economically feasible measures are included in the target scenario. Investments are made in the options that generate the greatest added value.
The relevant stakeholders are involved in the preparation of the plan from the very beginning. Through a broad-based project partnership with the most important players in energy supply and use, the project implementation following the concept development is considered from the very beginning. In addition to the city administration and the relevant service centers of the city, the Energy Initiative Halle (Saale) is involved in the preparation of the plan.
Comprehensive participation of the interested public is not only intended to ensure acceptance, but also has an advisory function for the supply sector over which local actors have no direct influence. By developing a communication concept for consensus- and support-oriented cooperation with all target groups, it is ensured that all stakeholders are involved and effectively informed about progress.
In addition to the analysis of the current status of the heat supply, the determination of the energy saving potentials, the evaluation of climate-neutral generation technologies and the creation of a technical evaluation matrix, the subject of Lot 1. Furthermore, scenarios for future markets and technologies are to be developed, the previously developed evaluation matrix is to be expanded to include market and economic criteria, and future heat and electricity requirements are to be estimated.