Programme including details of site visits, exhibition and workshops:

Programme - English (827 Kb PDF) Programm - Deutsch (834 KB PDF)

The core of the conference was workshop presentations with reports on successful projects in the field of municipal energy management. Plenary sessions, site visits and an 'East/West North/South' dialogue as well as an exhibition (building service systems manufacturers, energy services and networks) complemented the programme.

Im Mittelpunkt des Konferenzprogrammes stehen Workshops mit Erfahrungsberichten von erfolgreichen Projekten des kommunalen Energiemanagements. Plenarsitzungen, Exkursionen und der Dialog Ost/West, Nord/Süd sowie eine Ausstellung (Hersteller von Haus-und Gebäudetechnik; Dienstleister und Netzwerke) runden das Programm ab.

Registration, welcome coffee

Site visits (or visit the exhibition):

The project EROS - exemplary retrofitting of an old school

Cogeneration, heat recovery and frequency controller in the Leuze Spa

CareRes - Retrofitting of a retirement home

Wood-chip boiler in the vocational school Leobener Strasse

Integrated energy scheme "Rohrer Höhe" with heat pump and solar thermal system

Welcome and opening session

Dr. Wolfgang Schuster, Lord Mayor of Stuttgart

Franzjosef Schafhausen, Ministerial counsellor, Federal Minister for the environment

Karl Kellner, Head of Unit, European Commission, Energy and Transport DG
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Jeremy Smith, General Manager, CEMR

Plenary session: How does energy management work in Europe? General aspects and Stuttgart's experience (- Paul Fleming, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK in dialog with Volker Kienzlen, City of Stuttgart, Germany

Coffee break

Workshops I: Energy management in Europe: Examples from different active municipalities

Delft switched to 100% green electricity: a journey unveiled (2260 kb) - Frans van Tongeren, Delft, NL

Pamplona solar thermal ordonance - how does it work in practice?
(2550 kb) - María Teresa Martínez, Pamplona, ES

Renewables and intelligent metering in sustainable cities - The big picture just got bigger Don Lack, Leicester, GB

Cogeneration and renewables in municipal buildings (740 kb) - Hugues Geiger, Strasbourg, FR (broadcast live on the internet)

Efficient street lighting: Integration of information technologies in
Energy Management (351 kb) - Ângelo Estrela, Vila Nova de Gaia, PT

Facilitating energy efficient building design (size 203 kb) - Leonid Itskovich, Christchurch, New Zealand

EMAS certification: a new powerful tool for municipal Energy Managers
(2740 kb) - Sandro Picciolutto, Modena, IT

Municipal Energy Management initiatives in Ukraine (1670 kb) -
Anatoliy Kopets, Lviv, Ukraine

Successful tools of energy saving for building users and caretakers in Tampere (9340 kb) - Suvi Holm, Tampere, FI

Dialog with the exhibitors and the city networks

End of day

Evening reception

Key note speaker: Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Member of the
German Parliament, Chair of the German Bundestag’s Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety.

Workshops II: Energy management in Germany: Best practice in the leading cities

Hamburg boiler exchange program (351 kb) - Herbert Bruns, Hamburg, DE

Cogeneration in public buildings (1446 kb) - Mathias Linder, Frankfurt, DE

Municipal energy standards in Frankfurt and recommendations of the German Association of Cities and Towns (1000 kb) - Axel Bretzke, Frankfurt, DE

Investigation of 1000 municipal buildings Herbert Hofmuth, München, DE

Successful energy management in small and rural municipalities (316 kb) - Klaus Kessler, Heidelberg, DE (broadcast live on the internet)

Energy Conservation Partnership Berlin a successful Performance-Contracting-Project made in Berlin (1981 kb) - Friedrich Seefeldt, Berlin Energy Agency, DE

Intracting - a financing tool for energy efficiency - structure and examples
Jürgen Görres, Stuttgart, DE

Fifty/fifty - a motivation and participation programme for schools
Jens Prüß, Hamburg, DE

Coffee break

Workshops III: Non-municipal and European projects

SIWERM: Successful implementation of wind energy at regional and municipal level; good examples from Suwalki (PL) and Gouda (NL) (11100 kb) - Marco Tieleman, CEA-Rotterdam, NL & Tomasz Kapala, Kisielice, PL

Integrated logistic for use of biomass energy in Slovakia (644 kb) -
Ladislav Zidek, Zilina, BIOMASA Association, SK

Energiestadt Zürich and European Energy Award (2570 kb) - Toni W. Püntener, Zürich, CH

"Display" - Energie-Cités' municipal buildings climate campaign for the display of the energy performance of buildings (2640 kb) - Jeremy Draper, Milton Keynes, UK

Performance-Contracting for energy efficient lighting systems (116 kb) - Rüdiger Lohse, KEA, DE

A survey of the German Association of Cities and Towns on ways to finance energy efficient projects (157 kb) - Bernd Wiese, Freiburg, DE

Energy-office - a campaign for user behaviour Holger Vogelsang, dena, DE (broadcast live on the internet)

Buffet Lunch

Round table discussion: Which support do we need from the European Commission for fostering Energy Management at local level?

Moderation:

Gotelind Alber, Climate Alliance

Participants:

Karl Kellner, Head of Unit, European Commission, Energy and Transport DG

Mathias Linder, City of Frankfurt

Grzegorz Wisniewski, EC Baltic Renewable Energy Centre

Gérard Magnin, Energie-Cités

Hugues Geiger, Ville de Strasbourg

Balance or destruction? Intelligent use of energy as a key issue for a sustainable development, Prof. Dr. Dr. Franz-Josef Radermacher, Ulm

Closing remarks and outlook

Jeremy Smith, General Manager, CEMR

Jürgen Beck, Deputy mayor of environment, City of Stuttgart