Sustainable Construction InterCluster Club meeting - April 5th, Brussels

1. The Oekoenergie-Cluster
Upper Austria
Nadja Richler
O.O. Energiesparverband
Landstr. 45, A-4020 Linz, Austria
T: +43-732-7720-14380
oec@esv.or.at
www.oec-en.at

2. The State of Upper Austria –
Oberösterreich
Capital: Linz
Population: 1.4 mio
Area: 12,000 km²
Gross inland cons.: 305 PJ; 34 % renewables
Economic activities: industry, service sector, tourism,
25 % of the Austrian industrial exports
O.Ö. Energiesparverband
• regional energy agency
• energy efficiency, renewable energy sources
• main funding: regional government
• services to private households, SMEs, public bodies

3. "Clustering" in Upper Austria
• since 1998, cluster-oriented policies in Upper Austria
• 8 different clusters:
- automotive
- plastics
- furniture & timber
- health technology
- mechatronics
- food cluster
- environmental technology
- green energy cluster

4. Ökoenergie-Cluster Upper Austria
• network of renewable energy & energy efficiency companies in
Upper Austria
• 160 partners
• since 2000, managed by O.Oe. Energiesparverband
• www.oec-en.at
• main business fields:
- biomass heating
- solar heating
- energy efficient buildings
Turnover: 1.7 billion Euro
Employees: ~ 6,300
Export share: > 50 %

5. Solar thermal, biomass heating, efficient buildings

6. Ökoenergie-Cluster Upper Austria
160 companies
• Low energy buildings + construction
• Energy performance contracting
• Energy efficient lighting
• Energy advice
• Energy efficient building services and
process technologies
• Solar energy (thermal/PV)
• Biomass / Biogas
• Wind energy
• Heat pumps / Geothermal
• Small hydro power

7. Structure of the OEC partners
• 47 % planning, distribution, consulting companies
• 38 % producers of RE technologies and products
• 15 % R&D, training, others
• 47 % energy efficiency, mostly building-related
• 22 % biomass
• 18 % solar thermal
• 13 % heat pumps, small hydro power, wind power
Company size:
• < 10 staff members: 47 %
• 11 – 20 staff members: 11 %
• 21 – 50 staff members: 10 %
• 51 – 250 staff members: 23 %
• > 250 staff members: 9%

8. Examples of activities related to
sustainable construction
• Training programmes (energy advisors,
energy certificates for buildings)
• Promotional activities (information folders, events, site-visits etc.)
• Energy advice for businesses
• Pilot projects /
R&D programmes

9. Some examples of project partners

10. World Sustainable
Energy Days 2012
29 February – 2 March 2012
Wels/Austria
Deadline/Einreichschluss:
Call for Papers
5. 10. 2011

11. www.oec-en.at