Regional energy and sustainability

“区域能源和可持续发展”子项目为中型城市制定了一项利用数字技术的战略，通过数字技术，它们可以促进可再生能源的使用、可持续行为和扩大该地区的可持续能源生产。它将探讨是否有针对性的信息、游戏化方法和积极的激励方法可以鼓励使用区域能源，并支持可再生能源在中型城市及其周边地区的扩展。鉴于陆上风力发电厂的扩张停滞不前，这也是由于当地对工厂建设的抵制，促进接受和积极参与对能源转型起着初步作用。因此，该子项目将全面调查围绕可持续电力需求和可再生能源区域扩张的主题可能存在的障碍。中型城市是考虑的重点，因为它们及其周围地区往往具有良好的潜力，特别适合扩大风力发电和大型光伏电站。一方面，应该更好地了解在何种条件下，居民认为区域可持续能源特别值得支持。另一方面，需要确定区域及其居民日益支持“可持续性”共同目标的因素。还将重点讨论中等城市的共同利益，即可持续行为的积极影响和潜力以及促进各区域的可再生能源。例如，这些共同利益可以促进中型城市的区域发展，并从工业和人口的角度增加地点的吸引力。

The sub-project " Regional energy and sustainability" develops a strategy for medium-sized cities to use digital technologies through which they can promote the use of renewable energy, sustainable behavior and the expansion of sustainable energy production in the region. It will explore whether targeted information, gamification approaches, and a positive motivational approach can encourage the use of regional energy and support the expansion of renewable energy in mid-sized cities and their surrounding areas. In view of a stagnating expansion of onshore wind power plants, which is also due to local resistance against plant construction, a promotion of acceptance and active participation plays an elementary role for the energy transition. Accordingly, this subproject will comprehensively investigate possible barriers around the topic of sustainable electricity demand and the regional expansion of renewable energies. Medium-sized cities are in the focus of the considerations, since they and their surroundings are particularly suitable for the expansion of wind power and large-scale photovoltaic plants due to the often good potentials. On the one hand, it should be better understood under which conditions regional, sustainable energy is perceived by residents as particularly worthy of support. On the other hand, factors are to be identified through which the regions and their inhabitants increasingly support the common goal of 'sustainability'. The co-benefits for medium-sized cities, i.e. the positive effects and potentials of sustainable behavior and the promotion of renewable energies for the regions, will also be focused on. These co-benefits can, for example, contribute to the regional development of medium-sized cities and increase the attractiveness of the locations from the perspective of both industry and the population.