The voting for the city is open until 31 January: Energie-Kommune des Jahres - Agentur für Erneuerbare Energien

Greifswald was already awarded Energy Municipality of the Month in June 2025. The decisive factors for this were the long-standing commitment to climate protection, the process to reduce emissions and energy consumption launched already in 2008, successes in sustainable mobility, the commitment to peatland protection and the consistent alignment with global sustainability goals.

Germany's largest solar thermal plant of the Greifswalder Stadtwerke also attracted nationwide attention – a central component of the heating strategy on the way to climate neutrality, which is currently being further specified as part of municipal heat planning.

"Together with Greifswald's municipal utilities, major housing companies and other partners in the Sustainability Alliance, we are resolutely driving forward the heating transition in Greifswald,"
— Dr. Stefan Fassbinder, Lord Mayor of the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald

Original press release (in German): Pressemitteilung vom 09.01.2026 Energie-Kommune des Jahres 2025 – Greifswald ist nominiert!