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Energy Policy

Economical handling of energy is the main focus of the energy policy of the city Vienna. Energy efficiency serves the existence in the competition, the preservation of resources and the climate protection. The new urban energy efficiency program (SEP) contributes to this with a number of concrete measures.

Strategically, the city of Vienna sets the focus especially on the expansion of the district heating and the domestic gas net to guarantee the urban power supply. Different renewable sources of energy are used for the production of power and warmth. More than 18% of these sources account for the electricity production and about 13% to the heat production.

Exemplary large-scale projects:

• Biomass power station Simmering (the largest biomass power station in Austria, production of electricity and heat)
• Biogas plant Simmering (organic waste and leftovers are converted to Biogas)
• Incineration plant Pfaffenau (production of electricity and district heating for Vienna)
• Main Clarification plant Vienna (with water power, solar energy and wind power, energy is saved and/or replaced by renewable energy, the volume corresponds to the annual consumption of 2,000 Viennese households; until 2011 these measures are converted)

The preservation of resources can not only be achieved through energy production, but above all also through respective energy use. Therefore also the consumers take center stage in the Viennese energy policy.

Vienna also offers promotions in the energy sector. The main focus is on the increase of energy efficiency of heating systems and buildings as well as on the strengthened use of renewable energy source.