1. Austrian National Highlights
in R&D on Technologies for SD
PREPARE WG Meeting
7 – 8 April 2011, Lund
Julia Fürst
Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and
Technology

2. Monitoring: Public Energy R&D
expenditures 2009 (time series 1995-2009)
90
80
70
60 Other cross cutting technologies or
Million Euro
research
50 Other power and storage
technologies
40 Nuclear fission and fusion
30
Renewable energy sources
20
Fossil fuels
10
Energy efficiency
0
95
96
97
98
99
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
19
19
19
19
19
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
20
Expenditures in the new categories for hydrogen and fuel cells (established in 2006) were
transferred in the former IEA categories in order to preserve the timelines.
Source: Energieforschungserhebung 2009, A. Indinger et al., Schriftenreihe BMVIT 74/2010

3. RD Programmes
 Building of Tomorrow Plus
 Smart Production
 New Energies 2020
 Smart Energy – fit4set
ERA-Nets
 Eracobuild: www.eracobuild.eu
(Call „SUSTAINABLE RENOVATION” open until May 2011)
 SmartGrids: www.eranet-smartgrids.eu
 Bioenergy: www.eranetbioenergy.net

4. Building of Tomorrow Results
Building of Tomorrow 1999-2010
 350 funded projects
 45 Mio EUR
 30 demonstration projects
 5 residential aereas (in development)
Austria now has the highest density of
passive buildings world-wide (about 600).
Austria is developing an Austrian Building
Standard for sustainable buildings

5. Building of Tomorrow Plus
 Sarted October 2008
 3rd call planned for 2011, 5 Mio €
 The overriding goal is to achieve the technological
preconditions for constructing buildings that do not
consume energy, but generate it.
 plus-energy house
 refurbishment, renovation
 residential areas
www.HausderZukunft.at

6. Smart Production
 14 Mio €
 Start planned for May 2011
 Focus
 Industrial Production Processes
 Resource Efficiency
 Biobased Industry, Biorefinery
 Parts of the „Factory of Tomorrow“ will be continued in this programme

7. New Energies 2020
funded by the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund (start 2008)
 Strategies
 ENERY EFFICIENCY
 Energy systems and regions
 Smart Grids and end-use  RENEWABLE
 Buildings ENERGIES
 Energy efficiency in industry  INTELIGENT
 Bioenergy ENERGY SYSTEMS
 Photovoltaics
 Solar heating
 Mobility
www.neue-energien-2020.at

8. Smart Energy - fit4set
 15 Mio €, 2 calls (1st call Dec. 2010 - Mar. 2011)
 funded by the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund
 merge innovative individual projects into a
comprehensive overall concept
 SMART CITIES
 SMART GRIDS
 SMART RENEWABLES
 Stakeholders for SET projects:
energy technologies, building industry, ICT
www.smartcities.at

9. Thank you!
Julia Fürst
Energy and Environmental
Technologies
Austrian Federal Ministry of www.IPNW.at
Transport, Innovation and www.HAUSderZukunft.at
Technology
www.EdZ.at
www.e2050.at
www.smartcities.at
Tel.: +43 1 71162 652924
julia.fuerst@bmvit.gv.at