Ms Pepper, to whom one would probably have to say "the robots", looks, nods and spreads her arms on the top floor of the district administration department (KVR). This is how the white artificial figure, a good one meter tall, greets the landlady Hanna Sammüller-Gradl, the IT officer Laura Dornheim (both Green) and Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD). Perhaps their sweeping gestures with their arms are so friendly because the three announce that they want to advance Pepper's digital world in...
Behind the mirrored door with the two warning signs - one for video surveillance, the other for the need for protective shoes - there is a constant level of noise in the air, while on the ground there is a hustle and bustle of activity. Three men are struggling with a chest-high cable reel, two others are staring at one of the many monitors that are everywhere, lost in thought. A Ukraine flag hangs from the twenty-meter-high ceiling of the...
Put an end to "Munich's despondency": From the point of view of the deputy mayor Katrin habenschaden, the city needs a liberation for the construction of new high-rise buildings - and a modernization push associated with it. "I'm in favor of loosening our political shackles and no longer relying on stubborn and arbitrary limits such as the height of a church spire," said the Green politician on Tuesday morning at the "Immobilienforum", a specialist congress of the industry, in the...
from Catherine HoffmanThe energy transition, it is said, is a done deal. From 2026, no new oil heaters may be installed in residential buildings, whether existing or new. In addition, from January 1, 2024, 65 percent of the heat generated in new systems should come from renewable energies. This was announced by Federal Building Minister Klara Geywitz (SPD) last week. The necessary amendment to the Building Energy Act (GEG) is to be passed in the Bundestag this summer. "This is...
The fears have been confirmed: With the start of the demolition work and the conversion of the AEZ complex on Königswieser Straße, a supply gap has opened up for the residents of Neu-Forstenried and Fürstenried, which is difficult to compensate for, especially for older people. The suffering that results from a lack of shopping opportunities and social contacts is now being expressed in the form of flaming appeals to local politicians and the city administration.At the most recent meeting of...
Anyone who lives directly on the wholesale market site has to live with unreasonable demands. However, some of these could be avoided: there are still refrigerated trucks with running diesel units on the site at all times of the day and night, although the city has been offering power connections for almost four years at the urging of unnerved residents, via which the cooling systems of waiting trucks can be supplied directly with electricity let.Above all, directly affected residents from...
A lack of transparency, speculation, management errors: the opposition in the city council has massively criticized the municipal utilities (SWM) for their actions in the energy crisis. The starting point were two motions by the parliamentary group The Left/The Party to describe the consequences of the energy price brakes and further price developments for district heating. This resulted in a more than two-hour, sometimes heated debate in the Economic Committee on Tuesday.SWM manager Thomas Meerpohl represented Stadtwerke boss Florian Bieberbach....
The newly set up energy advice hotline of Diakonie Munich recorded around 280 calls in the first week. "We were very busy," says Kerstin Reichhart, who manages the new offer. "The intensity of the talks was very high." The hotline is intended to make it easier for Munich residents on low incomes who do not receive basic income, social assistance or benefits for asylum seekers to receive help from the heat fund set up by the city and Stadtwerke München...
Thanks to the success of Biontech, the city on the Rhine has become rich in one fell swoop. Getting rid of the many millions is not that easy. Looking for help, they asked a city that knew about it: Munich.Munich likes to think of itself as the best city, but is also willing to learn from better ones. Again and again, the city councilors go on political educational trips to look at clever ideas from other municipalities. In Stockholm and...
Florian Bieberbach explains why Munich is currently one of the most expensive cities in Germany when it comes to energy - but there was no need for price brakes. A conversation about the need to save gas and energy projections for 2023.Interviewed by Anna Hoben and Catherine HoffmannSZ: Mr. Bieberbach, are you glad that the past year with its upheavals in the energy market is over? source site
