Hostětín - Climate Star 2012
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Hostětín, the only award-winning community for the Czech Republic, is ranked alongside Zurich, Leipzig and the German region of Andalusia in Spain. Climate Star award is given to the most successful European Climate Alliance municipalities and regions for outstanding projects in the field of climate protection. Hostětín was recognized primarily for its approach to the use of renewable energy sources. The award ceremony Climate Star took place on 26 April 2012 in castle Schloss Hof in Austria. In this year has been awarded 20 communities, cities and regions from 9 European countries.
A village in the Czech Republic is a role model for climate protection. Even Prince Charles has come to take a look.
A biomass power plant, energy-saving public lighting, passive home construction, solar energy even plant-based sewage treatment. All of this and more can be found in a small village in the northwest of the White Carpathians in the Czech Republic.
Hostětín only has 240 inhabitants. At the same time more than 7,000 guests come to the climate protection projects in the community. One guest was even Prince Charles. At the very beginning was the first constructed wetland for wastewater treatment in the region. The Sun for the White Carpathians project followed in 1997, with solar panels installed on nine roofs in the community and 40 in the surroundings. Since 2000 almost all of the buildings in Hostětín are fed energy from biomass.
The Centre Veronica education centre was the first public passive building in the Czech Republic. The facade has a 22 m2 integrated solar array. Another photovoltaic power plant was built in 2010. Solar technology has saved 100 tons of CO2 in Hostětín. The CO2 emissions of the public lighting system were halved.
Hostětín also raises regional products and uses traditional farming methods. Three-hundred tons of apples are processed each year with the help of solar energy and waste heat exploitation. The storage hall is insulated with straw and does not need to be cooled or heated.
