The positive impacts of an increasing share of renewable energy (RE) on the mitigation of climate change as well as on the decrease of the dependence of energy imports are indisputable. However, such are currently still the additional costs of heat and electricity generation from most renewable...

Energy security increasingly becomes an issue in the face of rising worldwide energy demand and dwindling resources. Threats to energy security are seen in political instabilities of resource exporting countries, decreasing reserves, geostrategic and geopolitical factors and the structure of the...

Mit Methoden zur Umweltbewertung, die - wie die interviewgestützte Contingent Valuation Methode - auf der Messung individueller Präferenzen basieren, lässt sich der Wert einer Umweltveränderung umfassend bestimmen, aber sie erweisen sich in der Praxis oft als zu teuer. Durch die Verwendung...

Mit dem 2020 beschlossenen Gesetz zur Reduzierung und zur Beendigung der Kohleverstromung und zur Änderung weiterer Gesetze (Kohleausstiegsgesetz) (Bundesgesetzblatt 2020) ist die Diskussion über die Kosten der Energiewende neu aufgelebt. Die Belastung von Haushalten (Fahl et al. 2020) wird...

The German Renewable Energy Act (EEG) has been very successful in promoting the deployment of wind power plants and other renewable energy power generating technologies in Germany. The increasing share of EEG-power in the generation portfolio, increasing amounts of fluctuating power generation,...

Study for the European Environmental Agency, Copenhagen "Tax reform in Europe over the next decades: implication for the environment, for eco-innovation and for household distribution" Task A: Eco-innovation Literature review on eco-innovation and ETR Modelling of ETR impacts with GINFORS

The year 2008 started in January (Jan 23, 2008) with ambitious European initiatives on climate change when the European Commission suggested a climate packages with new targets for energy from renewable sources (RES), for the design of the third phase of the emission trading system, for a...

The increasing use of energy from renewable sources (RE) for the generation of heat and electricity in Germany has also led to an increasingly intensive debate on its advantages and disadvantages. The discussion mostly centers on the cost effects, because beneficial effects often are harder to...