Solutions for climate-neutral district concepts

The transformation of settlements and their infrastructure towards climate-neutral districts is a central task of municipal climate protection. The research project STADTQUARTIER 2050 investigated the challenges acting stakeholders face when developing and implementing climate-neutral supply concepts as well as methodological approaches and tools to support the planning process. Based on a literature review andthe experiences in the partner municipalities, suitable approaches were compiled and astandardised assessment procedure for the early planning phase was developed. The findings were summarized into a guideline that aims to describe a consistent pre-selection procedure for climate-neutral energy supply concepts for districts. The genericapproach of the guideline forms the theoretical basis for a newly developed web-basedplanning tool for energy-related district development. In this paper, the methodologicalbasis of the tool development is presented and the new planning tool is applied to twodemonstration projects in the partner municipalities Stuttgart and Überlingen.