"Drawing up a municipal heating plan as an essential prerequisite for a successful heating transition is a major challenge for many municipalities. With our diverse and long-standing experience, we can offer local authorities efficient, concrete, well-founded and accepted municipal heating planning", emphasises Dr. Ulf Kreienbrock, Managing Director of Leipzig-based INFRACON, a specialist for grid-bound infrastructures.
Four partner companies from the energy sector from Freiberg, Leipzig and Stuttgart are cooperating under the joint brand KWP4 to support cities and municipalities throughout Germany in their municipal heating planning. The pooling of expertise from science, management and the direct implementation of infrastructure projects enables a long-term partnership from the planning and construction to the operation of a heat supply system. Accompanying communication to promote acceptance ensures that the needs of the region's citizens are already taken into account in the planning phase.
With its extensive geo-referenced database, the DBI is ready and waiting when it comes to simulating and modelling energy systems: "For example, we determine a realistic routing for heating networks or offer location-specific modelling of energy and heating requirements", says Robert Manig from DBI Freiberg.
Tobias Gorges from Intelligent Energy System Services GmbH in Stuttgart adds: "In addition to our experience in managing complex multi-stakeholder infrastructure projects, we are also contributing our expertise from the energy sector to the projects and are very much looking forward to this partnership."
Ingo Seeligmüller, Managing Director of NeulandQuartier, a Leipzig-based agency for strategy and communication, explains: "The aim of forward-looking acceptance communication in the context of municipal heating planning is to create a positive public perception of upcoming changes as early as the planning phase."
Municipal heat planning under a common brand
KWP4 is the joint brand for municipal heat planning of the four companies DBI Gas und Umwelttechnik GmbH, Freiberg, INFRACON Infrastruktur Service GmbH & Co. KG, Leipzig, Intelligent Energy System Services GmbH, Stuttgart and NeulandQuartier GmbH, Leipzig.
DBI Gas- und Umwelttechnik GmbH is a subsidiary of DVGW Deutsche Vereinigung des Gas- und Wasserfaches e.V. The company focuses on research and innovation along the entire energy value chain for a sustainable energy supply. In the field of heat planning, DBI utilises its many years of experience in the use of powerful geographic information systems (GIS) and an extensive in-house database. Further information can be found at: www.dbi-gruppe.de
As a subsidiary of ONTRAS Gastransport GmbH, INFRACON is an expert in the green transformation of energy infrastructures from a single source - from feasibility studies and implementation planning to construction supervision and operational support. More at: www.infracon-service.de
Intelligent Energy System Services GmbH (IE2S) is a consulting company with many years of experience in the fields of energy infrastructure and supply, energy transition and smart energy ecosystem as well as related topics at the interface to municipal heat planning. IE2S has expertise in the areas of business advisory and energy technology consulting, including project management and implementation.
NeulandQuartier is a communications agency based in Leipzig. The agency specialises in acceptance and change communication for infrastructure and construction projects. NeulandQuartier advises and supports companies, governmental and non-governmental institutions and organisations in communicating and involving different stakeholder groups. The agency focuses on the structuring, organisation and moderation of dialogue and participation processes.
(Quelle: Infracon)
