Green Procurement

GOOD PRACTICE EXAMPLE

Country:	GERMANY, North Rhine-Westphalia
Measures:	Green Power
Name of the institution:	United Nations Campus in Bonn
Savings CO₂:	3100 tons/year

Since the first of January 2007 the 13 organisations of the United Nations located in Bonn – including the Secretariat of UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) – receive electricity from regenerative sources exclusively. The CO2 emissions are expected to be reduced by 3100 tons or 60 % per year.

The UN Campus harbours twelve organisations of the United Nations in the former parliamentary building, the so-called „Langer Eugen“. The Secretariat of UNFCCC is temporarily located in „Haus Carstanjen“ and will be relocating to the former parliamentary building “Altes Abgeordnetenhochhaus” once it has been refurbished.

Address: UN Campus in Bonn, Hermann-Ehlers-Str. 10, 53113 Bonn

Website: http://www.unric.org/UNO_in_Deutschland/

Procurement process

The Federal Ministry for the Environment – in cooperation with the Federal Environment Agency – developed criteria for the Europe-wide tendering of green electricity. The tender for supplying the premises of the United Nations in Bonn was won by the Regional Finance Office Münster for an initial two years.

Regional Finance Office Münster (OFD) – building department:

Address:	Andreas-Hofer-Str. 50, 48145 Münster
Contact Person:	Johannes Arnold
Function:	Referatsleitung TA in the OFD
Phone:	+49 (0) 8222-236
Fax:	+40 (0) 8222-896
E-mail:

Measures

Beginning the first of January 2007 for an initial two years, the Campus of the United Nations in Bonn will be supplied with 100 % green electricity. A consortium of the public service of the City of Bonn and the Naturstrom Rheinland-Pfalz GmbH has won the bid. The green electricity of the Naturstrom Rheinland-Pfalz GmbH has been certified with the „Green Power Label“ since 2001.

Within the next two years, the power requirement of the UN Campus which amounts to about 7.5 MWh/year will be satisfied by the hydroelectric power plant Mühlberg in Switzerland and a wind energy plant in the Hildesheimer Boerde. The effective output of the latter has been increased to 2,000 kW within a repowering measure. The annual capacity has increased by a factor of 21 to about 5.4 GWh.

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