Good Practice Case Study: Solar Roof Initiative - Berlin, Germany

Project Website: www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/umwelt/klimaschutz/solardachboerse/

Case Study (44 Kb PDF)

Summary

The climate protection unit of the Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung has created a Solar Roof Initiative to force the construction of solar power plants (by private investors) onto municipal buildings. The goal of this initiative is to decrease CO₂, emitted by the city of Berlin, establish a solar power friendly community, and to educate students. At this time, about 80 municipal buildings (schools, administrative buildings, sport complexes) are included in the Solardachbörse (Solar Roof Initiative). All buildings are published on a web site, with photos and a short expose including necessary data (type of roof, area, contact person, and location) to give private investors an outlook about these buildings.

Results

At this time about 25 private investors have shown interest and negotiations are still in progress. The Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung expects that during mid-2005 the first plants will be installed. The following chart shows the number of visits since publication of the web site. As one can see in the chart, the interest in visiting the web site was decreasing until the month May; in May we were releasing additional city districts. After that the visits were increasing again.

Chart 1: Number of visits (monthly) at the "Solardachbörse" - web site (2004)

A most welcome side effect is the education of the employees. Most employees had their first encounter with solar power related problems during the development of the solar power roof initiative, in order to work efficiently at the project these employees had to make themselves familiar with solar power technology.

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