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• Digitisation strategies for housing companies

Alongside the expansion of renewable energies, increasing energy efficiency is a key prerequisite for the success of the energy transition in Germany. Digitisation plays a key role in this. It acts as an enabler in industry and buildings and opens up new potential for using energy more efficiently.

Digitisation as the key to the energy transition

The dena Competence Centre for Digitisation of the Energy Transition KEDi aims to better exploit this potential through digital solutions. It strengthens information offerings, increases the visibility of successful practical examples, promotes exchange between users, solution providers and researchers, and supports competence building in the market. The Borderstep Institute supports KEDi in this task by conducting the study.

How can the housing industry become climate neutral?

The Borderstep Institute investigates how to develop and disseminate comprehensible digitisation paths for housing companies as part of the study. These paths should be understandable, practical and reproducible. They should reduce complexity for companies and show them clear, actionable options for action.

The aim is to contribute to achieving climate neutrality and renovation targets in the building sector.

The housing industry faces the challenge of converting its building stock to climate-neutral heating by 2045. This is a complex task that can only be accomplished with clear, practical strategies. This is where the project comes in: it develops digitisation strategies for technical building equipment in existing buildings that are tailored to different types of housing companies and their specific conditions.

Practical digitisation strategies

The study team will present the results in a format tailored to specific needs. This will enable housing companies to find practical ways of using digitisation for the energy transition in the building sector. This can be achieved through the more efficient use of heat, the conversion of renewable electricity into heat, or energy storage.