Networking by Renewable Energy Hamburg in 2020: topical fora
Given the contact restrictions in place due to the coronavirus pandemic, the cluster agency offered fora sessions in 2020, in most cases, in an online format.
Dr. Felix Dinger,
Forum management
Forum management
Finance and Law Forum
Renewable Energy Hamburg’s first web seminar took place in April as part of the Finance and Law Forum. In terms of content, the web seminar focused on Hamburg’s climate protection law. Christian Maaß, HIC, Dr Ursula Prall, BeckerBüttnerHeld, and Anselm Sprandel, BUKEA, were on hand as speakers. Another web seminar in November tackled the issue of revised offshore wind energy legislation. As our speakers we once again welcomed Dr Ursula Prall, BBH, and Ruben Reiber, Commerzbank, for the section on finance. Furthermore, in October, the Renewable Energy Hamburg cluster agency put together a statement on the draft Renewable Energy Act on the basis of the Finance and Law Forum.Inge Maltz-Dethlefs, Forum management
Heat Forum
The Heat Forum kicked off in May with a web seminar which also examined Hamburg’s Climate Protection Act, with a focus the heating sector. Kersin Walberg, BUKEA and Dr Matthias Sandrock, HIC took part as speakers. Another web seminar in September was dedicated to presenting Nina Kicherer’s master’s thesis, CC4E/HAW, in which she tackled the topic “strategies for the long-term transformation of Hamburg’s heating network”. In addition, a working party was set up as part of the Heat Forum, which authored a position paper on Hamburg’s heat transition, as well as the climate plan and Climate Protection Act, and submitted it to the coalition negotiations of the Hamburg City Parliament. BUKEA, the City of Hamburg’s authority for the environment, climate, energy and agriculture, explicitly requested and welcomed the forum participants’ input into refining the details of the climate plan. The Heat Forum was therefore successful in establishing a direct exchange between politics, administration and practice.Solar Forum
Last but not least, a new forum was established in October 2020. As the inaugural meeting was called off several times due to the coronavirus pandemic, its inception officially took place in October as part of a live event at the “House of the Patriotic Society” in Hamburg. Around 40 people attended the event, at which stringent hygiene measures were observed. During the course of the inaugural meeting, the participants decided to divide the forum into four working parties: trade and industry, housing industry, public properties and private consumers. The forum’s work is to be carried out in working parties and will be communicated and discussed in quarterly, full-plenary sessions.
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