Bürgerwerke

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Bürgerwerke eG

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legal form Registered cooperative
founding December 13, 2013
Seat Heidelberg , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Felix Benjamin Schäfer and Kai Hock (Board of Directors)
Branch Electricity provider
Website www.buergerwerke.de

The civil works eG is a German green power - suppliers and a network of community energy companies . As an umbrella organization of energy cooperatives, Bürgerwerke bundles green electricity from local generation and thus supplies households and companies throughout Germany and also supplies green gas. This makes them the largest alliance of energy cooperatives in Germany. The Bürgerwerke take on all energy-related tasks for the member cooperatives, such as energy procurement, the switching process and customer service.

Companies

The Bürgerwerke supply green electricity, which is generated by its member companies using solar and wind energy as well as in the Bavarian hydropower station Töging . Around 15 percent of the electricity comes from citizen solar and wind turbines. The profits from electricity sales are reinvested in local energy transition projects by the energy cooperatives.

The electricity is certified as green electricity by TÜV Nord and the Grüner Strom label . The electricity tariff is recommended by the environmental protection organization Robin Wood and the sustainability platform Utopia.de .

The aim of the Bürgerwerke is the regionalization of the energy supply and an energy turnaround from below. The company was founded on December 13, 2013 and is known as “ one of Europe's most innovative electricity retail start-ups ” (German: “ one of Europe's most innovative electricity provider startups”).

Other fields of activity

In addition to green electricity, the Bürgerwerke also supply so-called BürgerEkogas for heating and cooking to households and companies. The green gas optionally has a biogas share of 5, 10 or 100%. The biogas is obtained from organic waste that arises from the processing of sugar beet in a sugar beet factory in Mecklenburg- Vorommern. By purchasing BürgerÖkogas, every customer supports the energy transition in citizen hands with a subsidy of 0.3 cents per kilowatt hour.

The Bürgerwerke offer citizens' energy companies a platform for exchange and knowledge transfer so that new business models for the energy transition can be disseminated regionally. The experiences of individual member cooperatives are passed on in joint workshops, for example on the topics of setting up a charging station network for electric cars, tenant electricity models or the joint planning and financing of renewable energy systems.

The Bürgerwerke cooperate with Renault Germany to promote the sale of electric cars. The buying community through the member companies allows a discount from the list price of the electric cars Renault ZOE and Renault Kangoo .

Number and facilities of members

As of June 2020, 97 citizens' energy companies are members. They represent over 15,000 members and have over 450 systems across Germany with an installed capacity of 26 megawatts . These produce electricity for around 13,000 households.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ When the wind blows. In: FNP . June 1, 2016, accessed December 19, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Ralph Diermann: Meat from the butcher - and electricity from next door. In: Spiegel Online . October 31, 2016, accessed December 11, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Melanie Schulz: Networking as an opportunity. stadt-und-werk.de, January 29, 2016, accessed on December 11, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b Green electricity switch. A research report. (PDF) In: Robin Wood . Retrieved December 21, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Certification as green electricity by TÜV Nord. (PDF) TÜV Nord, April 3, 2017, accessed on August 17, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Green electricity certificates for public electricity. (PDF) In: buergerwerke.de. July 25, 2017. Retrieved September 9, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Green electricity provider: the best in comparison. Utopia, accessed December 17, 2018 .
  8. ↑ a b Lothar Röhrl: Big corporations not given up. Mittelbayerische.de, July 7, 2016, accessed December 11, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Seminar on energy and climate change at BUND Kinzigtal. bo.de, October 19, 2015, accessed on December 11, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Gunter Endres: Producer-consumer community in matters of electricity: The Bürgerwerke eG. Baden-Württemberg Cooperative Association, March 1, 2015, accessed on August 20, 2017 .
  11. ↑ BürgerWerke - retailer linking citizen owned renewable projects with consumers. onestepoffthegrid.com.au, October 28, 2015, accessed on December 11, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Citizens Ecogas. Bürgerwerke eG, accessed on December 17, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Charging columns owned by the citizen: The Citizen Charging Network Bürgerwerke eG, accessed on December 17, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Successfully develop the cooperative further. (No longer available online.) Netzwerk Energiewende now e. V., May 28, 2017, archived from the original on August 20, 2017 ; accessed on August 7, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Electric car campaign for energy citizens: Electrically mobile with the partner offer from Renault and the Bürgerwerke. Bürgerwerke eG, July 16, 2017, accessed on July 25, 2017 .
  16. ^ The cooperatives: A strong network of energy citizens. Bürgerwerke eG, accessed on June 12, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Christina Petrick-Löhr: Best prospects . In: Die Welt , September 30, 2016
  18. ↑ The Bürgerwerke eG win with the project 100% green electricity - from citizens for citizens the German Local Sustainability Award ZeitzeicheN. grueneliga-berlin.de, October 27, 2016, accessed on February 14, 2019 (press release).
  19. ↑ Excellent sustainability. enorm-magazin.de, accessed on December 11, 2016 .
  20. ↑ Winner of the German Solar Prize 2016 awarded. iwr.de, October 10, 2016, accessed on December 11, 2016 .
  21. ↑ Bürgerwerke - cooperative network for regional green electricity. In: Germany - Land of Ideas . land-der-ideen.de, accessed on February 13, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Bürgerwerke received the German Engagement Prize 2017. In: energynet.de. December 7, 2017, accessed December 21, 2017 .