The environmental technology can be found as cross-sectional technology in many other industries as component of the actual core businesses. In Baden-Wuerttemberg, many companies are hereby focusing on energy savings, the prevention of emissions through downstream processes and production-integrated environmental technology.
In the regional clusters of Baden-Wuerttemberg operating in the field of environmental and energy technology, 600 enterprises as well as renowned research and educational institutions are working together in networks focusing on deep geothermal energy, energy efficiency in private and industrial buildings as well as on regional environmental and energy strategies. The value chain concentrates on the creation of interfaces between information technology and the energy sector, the increase of energy efficiency as well as on the application of new technologies for energy production in the fields of biomass and geothermal energy.
In the state-owned network Platform Umwelttechnik e.V. (PU), regional clusters, committed companies and research institutes have formed an alliance. The PU network supports its members on their way to market Baden-Wuerttemberg's environmental technology on an international scale. Only when building cooperations, the innovative environmental technology can continuously be developed in a targeted way and be successfully positioned on the world market.
The Landesagentur Umwelttechnik BW addresses environmental technology and resource efficiency -issues that are affecting every company. Its main tasks include the provision of information to businesses and institutions as well as the stimulation of visionary projects.