Experience the solar folding roof live and in action – directly on a sewage treatment plant or parking area. The following dates and locations are available for this (each 1.30 p.m. to approx. 3.00 p.m.):

– 18 January 2023: WWTP Reinach | Arastrasse | 5734 Reinach/AG
– 23 February 2023: WWTP Eich-Bassersdorf | Eichstrasse 2, 8303 Bassersdorf/ZH
– 15 March 2023: Jakobsbad-Kronberg mountain railway car park | St. Josefstrasse 2, 9108 Jakobsbad/AI
– 26 April 2023: WWTP Morgental | Bleichestrasse 45, 9323 Steinach/SG
– 17 May 2023: WWTP Langmatt | Langmatt 668 | 5103 Wildegg/AG
– 15 June 2023: WWTP Rosenbergsau | Rosenbergsaustrasse 1674 | 9434 Au/SG
– 23 August 2023: WWTP Emmenspitz | Emmenspitz | 4528 Zuchwil/SO

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Stuttgart’s sewage treatment plant in Mühlhausen (Germany) is the largest in the country. It consumes a lot of electricity. Soon it will be generated in the plant itself to a greater extent than today.

The operation of the sewage treatment plant in Mühlhausen requires about 26 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year. The figure is just above that for all the street lighting and traffic lights in the city. Own generation now at 50 per cent: The sewage treatment plant’s own energy generation has been increased over the years through the use of a combined heat and power plant and a steam turbine. In the meantime, the plant produces about 13 million kilowatt hours per year, says Boris Diehm, head of the sewage treatment plant and canal operation department at the municipal sewage treatment plant (SES). So half of the electricity needed still has to be bought in. This purchase is to be gradually reduced. Diehm says that by 2035, the year set by the municipal council a few weeks ago as the target year for Stuttgart’s climate neutrality, the city wants to have 90 per cent of its own generation. (…)

Diehm and the SES staff have calculated the costs and returns of the modules hanging four metres above the ground and estimated a two-digit million sum for the investment. The expenditure would pay for itself after 24 years. That is a long time, but the value is relative: “We calculated with an electricity price of seven cents gross per kilowatt hour, now we are at 21 cents,” says the department head.

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It’s a premiere in Germany: a large tank at the sewage treatment plant in Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, is getting a solar roof that can be folded up. This is made possible by a Swiss innovation from dhp.

Conventional large solar plants need a lot of space, but that is sometimes in short supply. Servicebetriebe Neuwied (SBN) is therefore taking a new approach for Germany with Swiss technology. They are having one of their 1,600 square metre sewage treatment tanks built over – with a solar system that can be retracted when needed. “We want more energy efficiency in our operations,” explains SBN board member Stefan Herschbach. However, building over the clarifiers has not been practical so far because fixed roofs interfere with operations.

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Every two years, the Association of Aargau Electricity Suppliers looks for particularly outstanding and amazing solutions from the approximately 100 energy suppliers in the canton of Aargau. Once again it found what it was looking for. The latest electricity award goes to the innovative solar folding system above the wastewater treatment plant in Reinach.

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Entrepreneur and co-founder of dhp technology, Andreas Hügli has retired from the Executive Board and the Board of Directors. His successor on the Executive Board is Peter Kasper, an industrial and production engineer ETH who lives in Malans.

Peter Kasper brings with him many years of project management and leadership experience in a change environment and is therefore ideally suited to lead the future challenges of dhp technology AG to success. Together with Gian Andri Diem, he forms the new management team of dhp technology.

Andreas Hügli justifies his departure from dhp technology AG with the success of the young company. Founded in 2015, dhp technology AG is now a cleantech company with 34 employees. With twelve HORIZON solar folding roofs successfully installed in Switzerland, the pioneering phase has been successfully overcome. The current challenges are the automation of planning, internationalisation and scaling through external partners.

“My passion for photovoltaics is unbroken,” says Andreas Hügli. He now wants to concentrate on his work at reech GmbH, a company he also founded. This company plans and implements photovoltaics on infrastructure systems, for example along roads, on dams and buildings. It also runs its own test laboratory in Oberurnen. Andreas Hügli remains co-owner of dhp technology AG. In view of the energy transition and the change in mobility, the HORIZON solar folding roof has huge potential. At a lofty height, it spans sewage treatment plants, car parks and logistics areas and provides a double benefit. Firstly, it provides shade, and secondly, it produces electricity where it is needed. These are unbeatable trump cards for the increasing electrification of transport.

Image: Peter Kasper will take up his new position at dhp on 7 March 2022.

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On December 13, 2021, we launched a one-time crowdinvesting campaign so that anyone and everyone can participate in our company even on a smaller scale and support our values: Contributing and co-creating a meaningful product for energy transition and sustainability.

We are thrilled and happy that almost 440 investors have invested a total of over 1.5 million Swiss francs! Read more at www.conda.ch/dhp

On the occasion of the National Climate Day on 27 May 2021, the winner of the Swiss Future Prize was announced. The three finalists – dhp technology, 3S Solar Plus and LEDCity – were chosen by a renowned jury. The audience had the final say, as the winner was chosen by public voting.

The two dhp founders and managing directors, Gian Andri Diem and Andreas Hügli, together with their 30-strong team, are delighted: “We would like to thank all our “fans” for giving us their vote. We wish our two comrades-in-arms continued success. Together with them, we will continue on the path to a climate-neutral future with renewable energy and energy efficiency.”

Under this year’s motto “Economy in (Climate) Change”, the Swiss Future Prize honours companies, teams and individuals for their commitment to combating climate change. www.klimatag.ch/zukunftspreis