Heat pumps in existing buildings
Lecture in the Hofheim town hall
The topic of heat pumps is on the minds of many building owners these days. It is therefore not surprising that well over 200 interested people came to the Hofheim town hall on Monday, February 10, 2025, to find out more and exchange ideas on this topic. Markus Frieske from Kelkheim talked about his own experiences of how a heat pump can be successfully installed in a 100-year-old house without façade or roof insulation. During the evening, practical tips were given on how everyone can check for themselves whether a house is suitable for a heat pump.
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Municipal heat planning
Kick-off in the Stadthalle
With municipal heat planning, a city can address the challenges of the heat transition and create a locally adapted roadmap for this transition. The main question here is: What type of heat supply is likely to be used to supply the individual sub-areas of a municipality in the future? The topics are heating networks and decentralized heat supply.
In order to involve citizens in this process, a kick-off event was held on Monday, June 24, 2024, in the Hofheim town hall. There was all the information about municipal heat planning in Hofheim and the opportunity to ask questions. Results of the heat planning are expected in spring 2025.
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Heat transition in Hofheim
Starting signal for the creation of the Hofheim heating plan
How will Hofheim heat in the future? This question forms the basis of the heating planning concept that the district town has now commissioned from Syna GmbH. The background to this is the Federal Government's Heat Planning Act. It obliges all municipalities to draw up a heating plan. According to First City Councillor Daniel Philipp, 54 percent of the final energy requirement in Hofheim is accounted for by private households. "This means that any improvement in this area will have a major impact on climate protection." The majority of households in Hofheim heat with natural gas.
According to Philipp, it is also important to involve citizens in the creation of the heating plan. For this reason, there will be an initial public event on the topic in spring, where interested parties can ask questions. The exact date is yet to be announced.
First of all, Syna will determine the current heat consumption and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions and forecast future heat requirements. Then the savings potential of which measures will be analyzed. Finally, a climate-neutral scenario for the year 2045 and a municipal strategy to get there will be drawn up. It is also important to monitor the achievement of interim targets.
Syna is being supported by the Freiburg-based high-tech start-up "greenventory", which emerged from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems and has already assisted 125 municipalities with municipal heat planning. Also involved are various departments of the city administration, the municipal utilities, community energy cooperatives, housing associations, other energy suppliers, companies and ministries - and of course the citizens of Hofheim. The results of the municipal heat planning will be available and presented to the public in the course of 2025.