Clean energy – we are driving forward the energy transition
The use of renewable energies mitigates climate change. The German government has set a target that 80 percent of the electricity consumed in Germany should come from renewable energies by 2030 in order to achieve greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045.
Solar
Open-space solar parks offer an excellent opportunity to generate renewable energy from the sun and thus contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The clear focus here is on areas that are already sealed, conversion areas, and only to a very limited extent on low-quality agricultural land. Open-space solar parks offer great potential without increasing pressure on agricultural land, particularly on suitable areas along highways and railways that cannot be used for agricultural or other purposes.
The construction of solar parks along highways and railways can help to protect nature and the landscape in the region while ensuring a sustainable energy supply.
Taking into account the German government's expansion targets, it can be seen that the installed capacity in the solar sector must almost triple (2021 approx. 59 GW, target for 2030: 215 GW) if the target of covering 80% of demand from renewable energies by 2030 and achieving climate-neutral electricity production by 2035 is to be met.
ME Müritzer Energie AG, a subsidiary of Aleia Holding AG, wants to make an important contribution to the energy transition and seize the opportunity it presents. The company has therefore successfully begun to develop and plan open-space solar parks, particularly in its home region of the Mecklenburg Lake District, and will rapidly expand this business area.
Wind
According to an evaluation by the International Economic Forum for Renewable Energy (IWR) of preliminary data from the Federal Network Agency's market master data register, a total of 240 wind turbines (1st half of 2021: 247 turbines) with a capacity of 976.7 MW (1st half of 2021: 978.2) with a capacity of 976.7 MW (1st half of 2021: 247 turbines) were newly commissioned. The expansion targets for the coming years are ambitious: by 2030, installed capacity is to be increased to 95 GW.
The accelerated expansion of onshore wind energy is crucial to strengthening independence from fossil fuel imports and achieving climate targets. To this end, planning and approval procedures for wind turbines are to be accelerated and the necessary land made available. Currently, 0.8 percent of the country's land area is designated for onshore wind energy. Under the new “Wind-an-Land-Gesetz” (Onshore Wind Energy Act), however, two percent of the country's land area must be designated for onshore wind energy in the future.
Thanks to its long-standing business relationships in northeastern Germany, the Group company ME Müritzer Energie AG has already secured attractive locations for wind farms with a capacity of several hundred MW and is continuously expanding this portfolio.
Biogas and biomethane
The German biogas market, which has long been exclusively focused on the production of biogas from “energy crops,” usually corn, continues to undergo radical change. Our company therefore concentrates on large and small biogas plants that operate without the use of energy crops, both in agriculture and industry. Together with our partners, we have developed several large-scale industrial projects that use only organic residues (i.e., no energy crops) as substrates.
In 2010, our company built the first membrane-based biogas processing plant in Germany, a technology that will soon become the dominant technology for biogas processing. The technology was awarded the Innovation Prize by the German Energy Agency (dena). All of our company's currently planned industrial biogas projects involve the upgrading of biogas to biomethane for subsequent feed-in into the natural gas grid.