Sustained Development and Modernisation of the Administration Exemplified by the Schleswig-Holstein Energy Foundation

Panel: Panel 5: Energy Policy for a Sustainable Environment

Author:
Holger Krawinkel, Schleswig-Holstein Energy Foundation

Abstract

As a result of a change in government in 1988, a new energy policy was launched in Schleswig-Holstein which, in addition to the planned abandonment of nuclear power, contained, above all, the promotion of energy saving, of rational energy use and of renewable forms of energy. As the existing capacities within the ministerial administration were soon insufficient, two special institutions were founded in 1990 and 1991. A research institution took on the task of scientifically assisting and evaluating the energy policy programme in Schleswig-Holstein. An energy agency was given the task of competently advising the participants of the energy programme on saving energy in public bulldings, on setting up district heating systems with combined heat and power generation, on the construction of low consumption buildings and on the utilization of renewable forms of energy. Initially, the most important target groups were the towns and municipalities. In the course of different projects, the cooperation between energy policy and the energy supply industry was increasingly developed to the extent that the energy supply industry was finally prepared to participate in the costs of the newly set up institutions and to promote other projects in the field of climate protection. The cooperation was set up by the Schleswig-Holstein Energy Foundation.