Stakeholder dialogue on municipal heat planning

Municipal heat planning makes a significant contribution towards ensuring that the heat supply becomes greenhouse gas-neutral by 2045. It is an important instrument for the coordinated development of energy infrastructure at local level. It increases planning and investment security for local stakeholders. 

With the stakeholder dialogue, the Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building and the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Action support authorities at local and state level in heat planning. The dialogue is intended to support a largely uniform approach by the municipalities, based on the objectives and requirements of the German Heat Planning Act. The dialogue process should also help ensure that heat planning is seen by the public, citizens and companies as a task that affects everyone, makes sense and can be solved. 

dena provides support in this process. All activities are carried out in close cooperation with the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development at the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning, the Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building and the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Action.

On the one hand, the ‘Stakeholder dialogue on municipal heat planning’ project consists of communicative tasks:

• Concept development, organisation, implementation and follow-up of the kick-off event in July 2024
• Organisation and implementation of three specialist workshops from October 2024 to March 2025
• Implementation of the final workshop in May 2025 

On the other hand, the project also includes the content design. In this manner, key topics are developed, coordinated with the ministries and further developed over the course of the workshop series.