In the well-attended Austrian Wels town hall, Dr. Gerhard Dell, Managing Director of the Upper Austrian Energy Saving Association, and Mayor Dr. Andreas Rabl welcomed the expert audience to the European Pellets Conference 2024. Dell emphasized the increasing relevance of renewable energies in Austria and Europe, before Rabl used the example of Wels to show how cities and municipalities can become pioneers. Wels is already exceeding the Austrian energy saving goals and is currently taking further steps towards the desired energy self-sufficiency - for example with the construction of an S-Bahn. Dr. Biljana Kulišić from the ...