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A SWOT Analysis for Renewable Energy 0 Sources and Energy Efficiency in the Kleinregion Entwicklungsverband Tullnerfeld West Center of Excellence for Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Environment Oliver Graser v1.5, March 2012 This Project is co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the framework © CERE of – Visnovathe CENTRAL – KEVTW EUROPE - v1.5, March Programme 2012 1 Legal Disclaimer The rights and responsibilities of this document lies solely with the authors – it does not represent the opinion of the European Communities or the European Commission. The European Commission is in no case responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. VISNOVA is co-funded by the European Union under the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme co-financed through the ERDF. © CERE – VISNOVA – KEVTW - v1.5, March 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents ......................................................................................... 2 2 1. Introductory Remarks ............................................................................... 4 2. Regional Profile ........................................................................................ 6 2.1. Demography .................................................................................... 10 2.2 Socioeconomy .................................................................................. 16 3. Regional Energy Consumption ............................................................... 18 4.1 Consumer Groups ............................................................................. 20 3.2 Energy Carriers ................................................................................. 22 4. Renewable Energy Production ............................................................... 25 4.1 Status Quo ........................................................................................ 25 4.1.1. RE-plants in the region .............................................................. 27 4.2 Renewable Energy Potentials in the Region ..................................... 29 5. Energy Efficiency .................................................................................... 32 5.1 Economy ........................................................................................... 32 5.2 Private Households ........................................................................... 33 6. Conclusion: SWOT ................................................................................. 35 6.1 Strenghts ........................................................................................... 35 6.2 Weaknesses ..................................................................................... 37 6.3 Opportunities ..................................................................................... 38 6.4 Threats .............................................................................................. 38 © CERE – VISNOVA – KEVTW - v1.5, March 2012 7. Bibliography ............................................................................................ 40 8. Tables ..................................................................................................... 41 Index of Fig. ................................................................................................ 59 Index of Tables ........................................................................................... 60 3 © CERE – VISNOVA – KEVTW - v1.5, March 2012 1. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 4 The elaborations presented in this document are based on the joint SWOT methodology designed in the context of the VIS NOVA-project and combine qualitative assessments in the form of expert interviews with quantitative data mostly on energy related issues. Especially with regards to the later, a person interested in statistics on energy consumption and generation from renewable energy sources on the level of communities might encounter several challenges if not for regional energy concepts, which in Austria’s rural communities are almost exclusively formulated in the context of the LEADER-program for financial reasons. On the one hand, these concepts per se provide excellent insights into manifold aspects of the region they are tailored for; on the other hand, comparability between them might be very limited. That certainly hold true for the region Tullnerfeld-West: 10 of the 12 communities are part of the LEADER-region Donauland- Traisental-Tullnerfeld, Tulln an der Donau itself belongs to the LEADER-region Kamptal-Wagram, and finally, Muckendorf-Wipfing is not part of any such group. Where possible, we tried to sort out incommensurabilities through additional data, most importantly Statistik Austria’ “Blick auf die Gemeinde” (which could be translated as “a look at the community”). Where this was not possible, the report will highlight the omission. © CERE – VISNOVA – KEVTW - v1.5, March 2012 A final word on the sources employed before the fun starts: Apart from the “Blick auf die Gemeinde” publications, we relied heavily on data provided by Statistik Austria that is also available online: national 5 accounts, total energy balance for both Austria and Lower Austria, census data, and many more. These are not displayed in the bibliographic section, but can all be found online via www.statistik.at. © CERE – VISNOVA – KEVTW - v1.5, March 2012 2. REGIONAL PROFILE 6 The so-called “Kleinregion Tullnerfeld-West” comprises 12 of a total 21 communities of the Tulln district (in alphabetic order: Atzenbrugg, Judenau-Baumgarten, Königstetten, Langenrohr, Michelhausen, Muckendorf-Wipfing, Sieghartskirchen, Sitzenberg-Reidling, Tulbing, Tulln, Würmla, and Zwentendorf) located in central Lower Austria, to the northwest of Vienna. Fig. 1 Location of Lower Austria within Austria © CERE – VISNOVA – KEVTW - v1.5, March 2012 7 Fig. 2 Location of Tulln district within Lower Austria Covering an area of approximately 360 km2, and inhabited by about 45 000 people, it is the smallest of geographic units participating as a region in the VIS NOVA-project. Table 1 shows how population and area are split between the communities: © CERE – VISNOVA – KEVTW - v1.5, March 2012 pop km2 pop/km2 Atzenbrugg 2545 26,01 97,85 8 Judenau-Baumgarten 2139 14,31 149,48 Königstetten 1980 13,14 150,68 Langenrohr 2312 22,55 102,53 Michelhausen 2612 32,01 81,60 Muckendorf-Wipfing 1315 6,34 207,41 Sieghartskirchen 7094 61,68 115,01 Sitzenberg-Reidling 2058 22,14 92,95 Tulbing 2868 18,35 156,29 Tulln 15037 72,23 208,18 Würmla 1252 20,44 61,25 Zwentendorf 3925 53,75 73,02 total 45137 362,95 124,36 Tab. 1 population and area per community 2011 © CERE – VISNOVA – KEVTW - v1.5, March 2012 9 Fig. 3 Communities collaborating as „Tullnerfeld West“ While elements of (sub-)urbanization are evident not only in the town of Tulln an der Donau itself, but slowly take hold in proximity to the Austrian capital, the region is still largely characterized through features typically associated with rural areas. This theme of an intermediate position or semi-peripheral location will reoccur throughout this report. © CERE – VISNOVA – KEVTW - v1.5, March 2012 2.1. DEMOGRAPHY When we talk about “structural change” in European rural regions, for 10 most of them, considered either unsuccessful or unlucky in adapting, we’re merely employing a euphemism for them seemingly being trapped in an autocatalytic process of economic stagnation or decline on the one and dwindling and aging populations on the other hand. From a demographic perspective, the region Tullnerfeld-West certainly finds itself on the side of fortunate adapters: within the last 2 decades, the total number of people inhabiting the region not merely increased, but did so by almost a quarter (22,5%) - not a single one of the 12 communities suffered a decline. The slowest growing community, Würmla, pretty much equalled the growth rates of all of Austria (7,6%). A number of 6 communities witnessed increases in the 20s. Even those rates are, however, dwarfed by the whooping numbers of Langenrohr (38,1%) and Muckendorf-Wipfing (48,4%, albeit on a pretty low total level: from 886 inhabitants in 1991, the community grew to 1315 people last year). 50000 40000 45137 41631 30000 36854 20000 10000 0 1991 2001 2011 Fig. 4 Total populations Tullnerfeld-West © CERE – VISNOVA – KEVTW - v1.5, March 2012 1991 2001 2011 Atzenbrugg 2322 2497 2545 11 Judenau-Baumgarten 1713 2075 2139 Königstetten 1635 1888 1980 Langenrohr 1674 1974 2312 Michelhausen 2379 2524 2612 Muckendorf-Wipfing 886 980 1315 Sieghartskirchen 5812 6674 7094 Sitzenberg-Reidling 1701 1921 2058 Tulbing 2250 2534 2868 Tulln 12038 13591 15037 Würmla 1164 1258 1252 Zwentendorf 3280 3715 3925 total 36854 41631 45137 Tab. 2 total population figures per community and year and percentual growth from 1991-2011 © CERE – VISNOVA – KEVTW - v1.5, March 2012 g rowth % 1991-2011 9,6 24,9 21,1 12 38,1 9,8 48,4 22,1 21,0 27,5 24,9 7,6 19,7 0,0 10,0 20,0 30,0 40,0 50,0 Fig. 5 Total population figures per community and year and percentual growth from 1991-2011 If there’s anything to the widely accepted model called “demographic transition”, it’s hard to imagine such a surge in counted population as primarily owed to the interplay of regional fertility and mortality anywhere in Europe. This also holds true for our region: From 2002 until 2011, in most communities (8 of 12) the fertility rate slightly topped the mortality rate, though not necessarily each and every year; still, the total birth balance for the region during that time shows a minus of