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October 31, 2025
MUNICH Bavaria is taking a significant step towards reducing bureaucracy and digitizing the public sector. From now on, the states sweeping book data will be collected centrally by the State Office for Statistics (LfStat), processed and distributed to the Bavarian municipalities using an innovative building block model from the Bavarian Eco-Energy Institute (OIB). This new process offers a wide range of possible uses, particularly in the context of municipal heat planning. The structured and verified data provision provides a better basis for the planning and implementation of energy concepts at the municipal level. Municipalities no longer have to request the sweep book data individually from the district chimney sweeps, as in other federal states, but instead receive all relevant information centrally and efficiently from a single source. With this initiative, Bavaria is strengthening its position as a pioneer in digitalization and reducing bureaucracy, explains Bavarias Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger. By digitizing the sweep book data, we are making work easier and more efficient for our municipalities. They receive the data centrally, can better prepare their heat planning and save time and resources in the process. In the end, the citizens also benefit from it. While in other federal states the data is still recorded manually and decentrally, Bavaria is relying on a modern, digital solution that meets the requirements of the future. The so-called building block model makes it easier to integrate the data into administrative processes in compliance with data protection regulations. At the same time, we provide further data, for example on heating networks, heating plants, solar thermal energy, biomass, deep geothermal energy and waste heat, the minister continued. Background: The Heat Planning Act (WPG) came into force in Germany on January 1, 2024 and contains an obligation for heat planning for all municipalities. While municipalities with over 100,000 inhabitants must submit such heat planning by June 30, 2026, the deadline for smaller municipalities is June 30, 2028. To support the Bavarian municipalities, a Securebox heat planning was developed as part of the project by the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy (StMWi), the LfStat and the OIB in the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (LfU). furnished. The Securebox is a cloud solution and enables secure data exchange combined with easy handling. This platform provides data packages and documents to support municipal heat planning by the LfStat. In this way they can be used directly by the communities. Sweep book data is the chimney sweeps records of his activities in a specific area. They provide information about the respective heating system on site.
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