Legal information
Legal notice
Provider details, contact information and responsibility for EnergyCheckUlm.
Working draft · not yet approved for publication
The outstanding details are being clarified with the City of Ulm, THU and Steinbeis. The planned allocation of tasks follows the unsigned contract documents; legal responsibility has not yet been finally confirmed. This remains a working draft for the private test website.
Provider and address
Under the draft contract amendment and the Steinbeis offer dated 14 October 2026, THU is to coordinate the subject matter, take editorial responsibility and maintain the content independently. The City of Ulm is to commission Steinbeis separately for technical handover, hosting, administration, maintenance, security updates, backups and fault resolution. Continued operation is planned from 1 January 2027 to 31 December 2029. The copies provided are unsigned; commissioning and entry into force still require confirmation. The company details below refer to the proposed technical service provider. The entity to be identified as the provider of EnergyCheckUlm in the complete legal notice must be confirmed separately.
Steinbeis Transferzentren GmbH an der Hochschule Ulm
Prittwitzstraße 10
89075 Ulm
Germany
Management according to the Steinbeis directory: Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Elke Zimmer and Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Uwe Haug. The centre’s legal notice currently names only Elke Zimmer. [Confirm the current authorised representatives and complete details before publication.]
Register: Ulm Local Court, HRB 724365
VAT identification number: DE268655618
Details taken from the centre’s legal notice; check that they are up to date before publication.
Contact and editorial team
General contact details for the centre:
Steinbeis Transfer Centre for Energy Economics
Albert-Einstein-Allee 53
89081 Ulm
Telephone: +49 731 96537 422
Email: info@energiewirtschaft.org
Director: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Graeber
Editorial responsibility and content maintenance under the planned allocation of tasks: Ulm University of Applied Sciences (THU)
Feedback on EnergyCheckUlm: [Confirm a regularly monitored editorial email address and responsible contact at THU].
The future editorial contact will receive reports of factual errors, outdated information or unclear passages. The general centre address above has not yet been designated as the editorial mailbox for EnergyCheckUlm. For questions about your own energy project, contact the organisations listed on the advice page.
To clarify before approval: Whether a separate person responsible for the content must be named under Section 18(2) of the German Interstate Media Treaty (MStV). If required: [name and address for service]. A general editorial email address does not replace this designation.
Images and content
The website contains photographs from Adobe Stock, a credited photograph from Wikimedia Commons and AI-generated example images labelled as such. The images illustrate the content; technical example images are not installation instructions or evidence of actual installations. People in AI-generated scenes do not represent staff of the organisations involved.
Complete the image credits before publication: [Add photographer/creator credits and required licence notices based on the Adobe Stock licences actually used].
District heating photograph
“District heating transfer station with a freestanding hot-water storage tank” by FBuHL09 / Wikimedia Commons, published under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). For this website, the image was resized proportionally and compressed as WebP; the modified image file is available under the same licence. The photograph shows an example installation outside Ulm.
Logos of the organisations involved
The Ulm University of Applied Sciences logo comes from the university’s official logo collection. The Steinbeis Transfer Centre for Energy Economics logo comes from the centre’s website. The logos were only resized proportionally. Rights in the logos remain with the respective organisations; an open licence for the website code does not extend to these logos.
For information about the project’s origins and how it works, see About the project.
Draft last updated: 15 October 2026. The allocation of tasks has been updated using the contract amendment and Steinbeis offer dated 14 October 2026. Signatures and commissioning, the website provider, exact company name and authorised representatives, editorial contact, image credits and final legal approval by the responsible parties remain outstanding.