Austria's Climate Protection Municipalities 2010
10/19/2010Wien
Auersbach, Murau und Thalgau are "Austria's Climate Protection Municipalities 2010".
Auersbach: "Auersbach Sustainable Lifestyle"
Murau: "Municipality with Independent Electricity and Heat Generation" Recent decades have seen the municipality of Murau take control of its own electricity production. With the "Murau Municipal Works" operation, it has managed to generate almost 100 percent of Murau’s electricity requirement from hydropower by means of two power plants. The next step is going ahead with the construction of a district heating plant. All of the municipality’s public buildings, such as schools, the town hall and municipal housing, are already being heated with biomass. A concept employing electricity generation from wood gasification is envisaged for the winter half year.
It was especially for the "energy efficiency and emissions reduction", as well as the "embedding in an energy concept/program", that the jury awarded Murau the greatest number of points in its category.
It was especially for the "energy efficiency and emissions reduction", as well as the "embedding in an energy concept/program", that the jury awarded Murau the greatest number of points in its category.