Family festival in the technical museum: tension and energy for small and large!

Family festival in the technical museum: tension and energy for small and large!

On February 22, 2025, the annual family festival of the Vienna Netze will take place in the Technical Museum Vienna, which will be celebrated for the sixth time this time. If you are free of charge, children between the ages of 4 and 12 can immerse yourself in the fascinating world of energy. The program includes high -voltage demonstrations and an exciting tour that explains the path from muscle power to the power plant. Peter Hanke, City Council for Finance and Wiener Stadtwerke, emphasizes that it is important to make the complex background of the energy supply tangible in order to raise awareness of what is necessary so that Vienna can be supplied with electricity and gas, as ots.at reported.

Through an interactive program, technology is intended to impart early in order to inspire children for the professions of the future. Thomas Maderbacher, Managing Director of Wiener Netze, emphasizes the importance of the event in order to familiarize younger generations with the topics of electricity, gas and district heating. Around 3,900 visitors took part in the last edition of the festival, and the anticipation for this year's event is great. The Viennese networks also send a strong signal for the expansion of the supply infrastructure: An annually over 440 million euros flow into the maintenance and expansion of the networks, a need to do justice to the energy transition. This is also underlined by wienernetze.at , where it is emphasized that without improving the networks and corresponding investments, the climate goals cannot be achieved.

investments in the energy transition

The Viennese networks rely on sustainable development and digitization. A strong network is the basis for the energy transition, as Elisa Schenner from the EU DSO Entity explained in the Netz Talk in the Technical Museum. The need to switch to renewable energies makes other legal framework essential. Managing Director Maderbacher illustrates that 300 million euros have to be invested in the infrastructure annually in order to guarantee supply security and to be able to efficiently integrate new technologies, such as photovoltaic systems, into the existing network.

It was particularly emphasized that the Viennese networks will play a crucial role not only today, but also in the future in order to counter the challenges of the energy transition. Innovative approaches and a clear communication style are necessary to actively integrate customers and partners into this transformation process. "We still have a lot of educational work ahead of us," says Isabell Elias-Doneit from the Viennese networks, and the commitment of the employees shows that everyone has to pull together to support Vienna on the way to the future.