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DFIC financing guide South Africa
On behalf of the German-South African Energy Partnership engaged by GIZ and in cooperation with the South African-German chamber of commerce (AHK), DIFC has created a financing guide. The guide contains financing options for green energy projects as well as energy efficiency projects in South Africa and describes both, German and international financing programmes. Another important focus is on subsidies for market and project development.
The financing guide differentiates according to the status of the companies with regard to their engagement in South Africa or their affiliation to German companies, in case it is a South African company.
The complete financing guide can be downloaded here.
Energy Efficiency Technology for South Africa
Since a number of years South Africa has developed a more proactive energy policy in the sense of Energiewende (energy transition) including energy efficiency. Since 2011 Germany and South Africa are accordingly cooperating in the field of energy. The South African-German Energy Programme (SAGEN) is funded by the German Government and implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in cooperation with the Department of Energy (DoE) and the South African National Energy Development Institute (SANEDI).
SAGEN in its next phase aims at promoting a few specific, highly promising energy efficiency technologies. In order to make an informed decision on which technologies to promote and support to contribute to electricity savings, SAGEN entrusted DFIC with a study on the potential of energy efficiency technologies.
DFIC plans geothermal solution for university
As part of a restructuring of its energy supply the University of Cologne plans to focus more on renewable energy sources in the future. In this context, DFIC was commissioned with the planning of a sustainable cooling and heating supply based on geothermal energy for a new institute building on the mathematical-scientific campus. DFIC is planning to use so-called high-performance energy piles (HEP) to develop the potential of geothermal energy with a stable temperature level throughout the year of approx. 10°C at a depth of 15 - 30 m (near surface geothermal area).
The 28 m deep HEPs, each filled with up to 30,000 litres of water, can be sunk into the ground outside the building and provide regenerative heating or cooling capacity, either operating as a heat source or alternatively as heat sink. The HEP system develops a 100% renewable and extremely efficient form of energy supply, especially with regard to the supply of low-temperature heating and cooling requirements.
DFIC analyses alternative heat supply potentials in industrial park
DFIC has developed sustainable heat supply solutions in an industrial park for Stadtwerke Coesfeld. In this project DFIC has not only identified potentials for further supply of renewable energy heat from the biogas plant located at the former Bundeswehr site Industriepark Nord.Westfalen (IPNW), but also through the possible inclusion and energetic use of municipal green waste for heat supply.
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BMWi commissions DFIC to provide financing advice on energy efficiency technologies
After winning the tender, DFIC is once again providing advice on export and project financing in various countries as part of the Energy Efficiency Export Initiative of the Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWi). The consultancy services offered cover a wide range of technologies and financing methods in accordance with company-specific requirements. The use of subsidies for the various promotion possibilities in the phase of market and project development is also included.
DFIC has been supporting the Export Initiative since 2012 and has extensive experience in consulting and implementation of financing for companies and projects. Furthermore, DFIC has prepared various financing studies on foreign markets, which assess local financing and promotion possibilities for the respective target markets and help German companies to find the right financing and subsidy options for their projects.
Financing studies can be downloaded here.
Energy cost reduction in retirement homes
DFIC advises two homes for the elderly on the optimisation and restructuring of their energy supply. The aim of the restructuring is a cost-effective, climate-friendly and sustainable energy supply with high security of supply and low cost.
Study on trigeneration or combined cooling, heat and power (CCHP)
DFIC has been working on a study to reorganize the energy supply of the Mathematical-Scientific Campus of the University of Cologne. The objective was to ensure a sustainable, climate-friendly, economical and at the same time space-saving energy supply on the basis of trigeneration.
Various energy supply options based on renewable energies have been developed and compared: the options have been examined and evaluated with regard to their impact on the above mentioned targets.
In this context, DFIC performed the following services:
- Inventory of energy supply: currently over 135,000 m² GFA
- Specific analysis of a large number of different types of use and of the expansion of a further 30,000 m² GFA
- Detailed analysis and forecast of energy demand information
- Development of an energy supply concept including:
- Technical planning and plant design
- Economic planning
- Other planning
- Alternative concepts for implementation (BOO, IPP, ESCo and outsourcing models).
The DFIC approach for the study on trigeneration is characterised by the following elements:
- Optimisation regarding centralised - decentralised heating and cooling
- Use of existing district heating networks and refrigeration machines as back-up and for peak load coverage
- Storage of hot water for peak smoothing, in particular for refrigeration
- Optional addition of solar thermal energy, in particular to cover cold peaks in summer
- Two-stage procedure:
- Larger number of possible scenarios
- Workshop to identify 3 preferred supply variants which have to be examined in detail
- Optimisation / sizing of cogeneration engines.