Rhine district Energy and transformation are among the central future issues in the course of structural change. The Rhineland metropolitan region wants to join forces for this. What content is planned.
In the course of its strategic and content-related realignment, the Rhineland Metropolitan Region (MRR) created three working groups: “Energy and Transformation”, “Transport and Infrastructure” and “Profiling and Identification”.
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Jürgen Steinmetz, General Manager of the Middle Lower Rhine Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK), will head the “Energy and Transformation” working group. This is reported by the MRR. In order to define the goals and tasks of the “Energy and Transformation” working group, Steinmetz is initially planning a kick-off workshop. “We will then formulate the political demands of the Rhineland with a view to the federal government’s coalition agreement and the EU’s Green Deal, taking into account the regional activities of local stakeholders in the areas of recycling management and hydrogen technology,” explains Steinmetz.
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It will also be a matter of integrating further transformation areas – above all digital change – into the strategic orientation of the working group. “Bundle the diverse forces and pull together to further develop the Rhineland – these are the goals of the Rhineland metropolitan region. That’s why I’m looking forward to working with Jürgen Steinmetz. Because he is a proven expert and well connected with the relevant players in the Rhineland,” emphasizes Düsseldorf’s Lord Mayor Stephan Keller, CEO of MRR.
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The importance of the topics “Energy and Transformation” for the MRR will already become clear at this year’s Parliamentary Evening on June 15 in Brussels. “Together with Jürgen Steinmetz, we will examine the opportunities and challenges of the Green Deal for the Rhineland metropolitan region,” explains MRR Managing Director Thomas Schauf.
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The 35 member corporations of the Rhineland metropolitan region include the independent cities of Aachen, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Cologne, Krefeld, Leverkusen, Mönchengladbach, Remscheid, Solingen, Wuppertal, the districts of Düren, Euskirchen, Heinsberg, Kleve, Mettmann, Viersen, Wesel and Oberbergischer District, Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, Rhein-Erft-Kreis, Rhein-Kreis-Neuss, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, the urban region of Aachen, the Rhineland Regional Council as well as chambers of crafts, industry and commerce and, as permanent guests, representatives of the district governments of Düsseldorf and Cologne, the regional councils of Düsseldorf and Cologne and other stakeholders.
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