The following press release was issued by the County Recklinghausen, the WiN Emscher-Lippe Gesellschaft zur Strukturverbesserung mbH, the cities Bottrop and Gelsenkirchen as well as the Association to further the use of Renewable Energy in Gladbeck (VEE) in conjunction with the official launch of the “Energy Atlas” for which terrestris realised the technical concept: The “Energy Atlas” is displaying information concerning the energy region Emscher-Lippe. “With the energy atlas you are a click away from the manifold potentials regarding renewable energies in the Emscher-Lippe-Region” Cay Süberkrüb, district administrator of the County Recklinghausen, Bernd Tischler, mayor of the city of Bottrop and the solar commissioner of the city of Gelsenkirchen, Armin Hardes agreed. Where is biodiesel being produced? Whom do I talk to if I want to install a photovoltaic solar power plant on my roof? How much electricity does the next windmill produce? These and other questions are easily answered when taking a virtual tour through the interactive mapping application at www.energieatlas.org. The energy atlas shows the location of approx. 100 energy businesses and roughly 2400 photovoltaic facilities in the region. In all one can query 3.400 objects in different thematic maps and the energy atlas provides access to contact persons, gives information about support programmes and generally abounds with facts and figures. “The publication of such excellent information was only possible through the good cooperation between the public and private project participants” Cay Süberkrüb is sure. Besides the county of Recklinghausen, the WiN Emscher-Lippe Gesellschaft zur Strukturverbesserung mbH, the cities Bottrop and Gelsenkirchen as well as the Association to further the use of Renewable Energy in Gladbeck (VEE) participated in this project. For further information please visit www.energieatlas.org/pressematerial.php. Contact person: Anja Sigesmund, Tel: +49 (0) 23 61/ 53 4500 anja[punkt]sigesmund[at]kreis-recklinghausen[punkt]de