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Concept Renewable Wilhelmsburg”
space for residents and improving the
was impemented by an international
utilization efficiency of daylight, hence
committee of experts in collaboration
reducing the consumption amount of
with IBA from 2008 to 2010. It is
electricity.
estimated by this project team that the
Energy Bunker is transformed from
population in the island will grow from
a deserted air raid bunker which is built in
55,000 up to 73,000. The initiative’s aim is 100% local renewal electricity supply
WWⅡ as residents’ shelter from air raid, aircraft port and antiaircraft battery. With
by 2025 and 100% renewable heat by
a height of 42 meters, and a thickness
2050, making the Elbe Islands carbon
of 4 meters on top and 3 meters of outer
neutral. The goal can only be realized
wall, it can accommodate 20,000 people.
by adequately exploiting local energy
The bunker was demolished by Allied
resources and renewable energies, and
Forces in 1947. However, due to its
by substantially improving the utilization
strong main structure and the huge cost
efficiency of local energies. For this
of demolition, the main part of the bunker
end, the project team is committed to
remained intact but abandoned since
the survey of Hamburg itself and draws
then. In 2006, Hamburg International
“Energy Atlas”, which analyzes future
Building Exhibition Company and
energy demands, energy saving potentials,
Hamburg Energy Company proposed the
renewable energy utilization in distinct
program of Energy Bunker and launched
building environments within Hamburg,
the building in 2011 with the funding
and strategic measures of energy supply.
of European Regional Development
For instance, in the security housing
Fund and Climate Protection Concept
community of Wilhelmsburg, the roofs
Organization. The top and side walls are
in the community are all covered with
covered with solar panels and solar hot
solar panels, and the supply of heat and
water facilities of 3,000 square meters,
electricity is additionally supported from
and the interior was equipped with two
the nearby renewable Energy Bunker and
sets of cogeneration systems fueled by
Energy Hill for wind power generation
waste wood and marsh gas. Additionally,
transformed from a toxic waste landfill;
the waste heat from nearby factories
and in terms of energy conservation, the
is transported there to heat the water
old community has added closed balcony
tower with a capacity of 2 million liters,
and specially-designed window which
producing and storing heat. At present, as
makes sunlight rooms, offering more
one of the most representative community