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Stimulus package: opportunity for climate-smart buildings?
Discussions over recent weeks have shown that, alongside Covid-19, familiar issues such as climate protection, digitalization and integrated energy have not gone away. The protective measures taken against the pandemic in recent months have created new impetus, for instance the federal government's stimulus package. What does that mean for the climate-smart transformation of our building stock?
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COVID-19 contact tracing app: smart digital solution?
The federal government finally launched the new COVID-19 contact tracing app at the start of this week. The aim of the app is to notify people that they have come into contact with infected individuals before they develop any symptoms themselves.
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Smart meter rollout: cross-sectoral cooperations the key
As the smart meter rollout proceeds, the energy industry and the real estate sector are growing ever closer. At the Berliner Energietage (Berlin Energy Days), which took place for the first time this year as the “digital summer of the energy transition”, it was once again clear what opportunities the smart meter rollout had opened up for companies from both sectors. On Tuesday 9 June the sectoral experts Axel Gedaschko (President of the GdW (Bundesverband deutscher Wohnungs- und Immobilienunternehmen, Federal Association of German Housing and Real Estate Enterprise Registered Associations)), Michael Wübbels (Deputy Managing Director of the VKU (Verband kommunaler Unternehmen, Association of Local Public Utilities) and Ingo Schönberg (director responsible for energy technology at ZVEI (Zentralverband Elektrotechnik- und Elektronikindustrie, Central Association of the Electrical and Electronic Industry) and managing director of PPC (Power Plus Communications)) came together for a virtual dialogue. Where do we stand today, almost six months after the official launch of the smart meter rollout? What opportunities can municipal utility providers and housing associations see? And how can potential opportunities best be exploited by municipal players?
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We need creativity and the will to innovate
The spread of the coronavirus pandemic poses new challenges and engages us all, imposing major restrictions on us both personally and professionally. In Europe politicians have adopted a course of imposing restrictions on movement and ordering social distancing, with drastic interventions in private and working life. In the noventic group we intend to face this situation by rapidly finding creative solutions to ensure the continuing existence of our enterprises in terms of competitiveness and job retention.
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Must leaders be able to do everything?
Why the KALO IT department opts for agility and what its experiences have been.
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The smart meter roll-out momentum
Digitization brings the energy and real estate industries together. In addition to all the challenges, the smart meter rollout also opens the door to new digital business models. Both for housing companies and energy suppliers: with the help of existing measuring infrastructures, via the secure infrastructure of the Smart Meter Gateway and thanks to new digital applications. How can the opportunities of the rollout now be used?