Category: Analysis

Securing the heat transition with data models

According to the Federal Environment Agency, renewable energies account for just 16.5 percent of final energy consumption for heating and cooling. Because the starting situations in the municipalities are different, the heat turnaround needs data above all. A guest article in energate | messenger (published by Energate GmbH, a specialist publisher for the energy industry in German-speaking countries) with Norbert Stankus.

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Micro-banks: Mini banks under pressure

Until recently, the smallest bank in Germany was Raiffeisenbank Struvenhütten (a Municipality in County Segeberg in Schleswig-Holstein); since the beginning of August, it has no longer been an independent credit institution. Especially against the background of location intelligence issues, the geographic territorial units of municipalities are a very heterogeneous grid. This has mainly to do with territorial reforms that have not taken place everywhere. The Federal state in the far north consists primarily of many small municipalities.

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