The Energie-Technologische Zentrum Nürnberg
The Business Initiatives and Innovation Centre
of the Nuremberg Energy Region
The Nuremberg energy region not only offers a multitude of global players
in the immediate vicinity to innovative business initiatives, existing
companies and research institutes from the field of energy technology, but in
addition, with the energy technological centre (etz), an opportunity, under one
roof, to develop innovative project ideas and solutions for energy
technological challenges in the future together with like-minded people from
trade and industry, research and the area of education.
The provision of an energy supply
which uses resources sparingly and which is sustainable is one of the greatest
challenges lying ahead. With approx. 50,000 jobs and a turnover of 7.5 billion
Euros, the Nuremberg region has built up an outstanding competence in regard to
this field of the future. Thus, in the Nuremberg region, the fields of
renewable energies and economic energy provision and usage are equally covered
by companies which do business worldwide.
This leading role has to be secured
by continuous innovation and investment in methods of resolution, as well as by
lively and practical research. To support this, an innovation and business
initiatives centre was called into being together with the
Energie-Technologische Zentrum Nürnberg (etz), a centre which represents a new
communication and crystallization point of energy technology.
Similar centres are being
established in other regions of Germany at present. To guarantee a common
strategy and optimum added value for all the companies located in the centres,
work is currently being carried out to set up a network. This will enable a
link between the existing regional competencies.
In the etz, as an energy technological
centre concentrating on business initiatives and innovation - the first of its
kind in Germany – an innovative and cross-subject co-operation with obvious
synergy effects is emerging due to the settlement of institutes of the further
education college and university on the one hand and innovative business
initiatives and established companies on the other. Connected favourably to
transport facilities, the etz building is situated at a very historically
important location for the development of the use of electricity as a means of
energy, the completely reconstructed former meter works of the Siemens AG in
the south of Nuremberg.
Finding suitable tenants, the
definition, application and supervision of appropriate projects as well as
looking after tenants and new business initiatives is the task of an etz
co-operation office, set up specifically for this purpose and which is mainly
financed by funds from the Bavarian Ministry of Economics and the town of
Nuremberg. The project carrier is EnergieRegion GmbH.
What makes the energy technological
centre unique is the financial assistance placed at the disposal of the etz for
the specific purpose of realizing innovative project ideas. These resources
amounting to several million Euros was made available to the etz within the
scope of the High-Tech Offensive of the State of Bavaria.
In this way, every tenant or party
interested in becoming a tenant is able to introduce new project ideas with the
support of the etz co-operation office. Corresponding subsidies can be applied
for in conjunction with the co-operation office. Together with the etz tenants
and actors from the region, the co-operation office compiles a multitude of
project ideas which are continually brought up to date and extended. Over the
coming years, these projects will be realized by the etz actors within the
limits of the funds available.
Project group Innovative Small Power Plant
The Alstom Power company is moving into the etz
with a project group and, within the limits of etz funds, will work on the
subject of effluent sludge gasification and the development of fuel cells. The
aim is to link both technologies to set up an innovative small power plant.
Project group E²Q: Innovative Energy Data Recording
In close co-operation with the Nuremberg
University of Applied Science, the company Dehn & Söhne is carrying out a
research project applied for within etz funding which aims to develop a new
form of intelligent energy data recording. A project group with new employees
especially for this project has already moved into the etz.
At the same time, together with the
present etz tenants and actors, new ideas are being continually discussed and
new projects developed:
Project DiFMA:
In conjunction with various contractors and the
etz, DiFMA is planning to issue a benchmark for the various applications of
performance contracting. In this way, the methods and processes of performance
contracting will be systematically researched and optimized. Important
equipment and software developments are equally to the fore.
Project Solar Optimization in Industrial Construction, Nuremberg further
education college
The project of the Institut für Energie und
Gebäude (ieg) (Institute for Energy and Buildings) at the Nuremberg University
of Applied Science is concerned with possibilities of solar optimization in
industrial construction based on simulation calculations.
Project "Manual of model energy-efficient residential buildings in the
Nuremberg region"
The project is being carried out by
the Urban Ecology Foundation in collaboration with participants of the network
construction and energy. Using various exemplary projects, possibilities of
energy-efficient construction in both old and new buildings are described in a
manual.
Project of an innovative solar based cooling system:
The company okt is planning a
project in co-operation with the Institut Energie und Gebäude (ieg) of the
Nuremberg further education college for the development and trial of a
solar-driven system for air-conditioning in buildings.
Summary
Thus, etz funds totalling 5,000,000
Euros have already been invested in projects which serve to further develop
technology in the region and help maintain the leading role in the field of
energy competence. As four of the projects have involved new recruitment, a
positive effect on jobs has also been secured by the etz.
Furthermore, initial synergies
between the companies currently located in the business initiatives and
innovation centre have resulted, without the co-operation office and funds
being involved.
The premises of the etz will be
developed in several stages. Just under 3,000 m² of office space are on lease
at present. Further space will be available for which
suitable tenants are being canvassed at the moment. In this way, the etz has
the chance to grow gradually and systematically. Therefore it is possible to
obtain a structure of companies which corresponds to the fundamental idea of
the etz and to realize innovative projects.
Contact:
Landgrabenstrasse 94
90443 Nuremberg
Tel.: 0911-994396-0
www.etz-nuernberg.de
mail: info[at]etz-nuernberg.de