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A 100 percent renewable energy system in Europe is technically possible and economically rational

Kemfert, Claudia - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 16/18, pp. 160-161

To achieve climate targets, efforts need to be made in Europe to improve energy efficiency and to expand renewable … energies. Conditions for investing in renewable energies in Europe must be improved, subsidies for fossil and nuclear energy …

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Natural gas supply : no need for another Baltic Sea pipeline

Neumann, Anne; Göke, Leonard; Holz, Franziska; … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 27, pp. 241-248

Europe. However, DIW Berlin analyses show that the planned pipeline project Nord Stream 2 is not necessary to secure natural … gas supplies for Germany and Europe. The energy consumption forecasts on which the project is based, especially the EU … Reference Scenario, significantly overestimate natural gas demand in Germany and Europe. On the supply side, there will be no …

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Successful climate protection via rapid coal phaseout in Germany and North Rhine-Westphalia

Göke, Leonard; Kittel, Martin; Kemfert, Claudia; … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 33, pp. 301-311

renewable energies throughout Europe. And in North Rhine-Westphalia, a rapid coal phaseout will be necessary to meet the climate …

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Ten years after Fukushima : nuclear energy is still dangerous and unreliable

Wealer, Ben; Hirschhausen, Christian R. von; Kemfert, … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 11 (2021) 7/8, pp. 53-61

The catastrophic accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on March 11, 2011, revealed unexpected safety risks of nuclear energy once again. It also accelerated the decline of nuclear energy in the international energy sector: Nuclear energy’s share of global electricity generation...

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Nuclear turn : closing down nuclear power plants opens up prospects for the final repository site search

Kendziorski, Mario; Kemfert, Claudia; Präger, Fabian; … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 11 (2021) 47, pp. 359-366

With the closure of the final six nuclear power plants, the commercial use of nuclear energy for electricity generation in Germany will come to an end in 2022. Due to the German power system's sufficient capacities-in 2020, the sector exported 20 terawatt hours (TWh), or about four percent of...

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European Green Deal : using ambitious climate targets and renewable energy to climb out of the economic crisis

Hainsch, Karlo; Göke, Leonard; Kemfert, Claudia; Oei, … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 10 (2020) 28/29, pp. 303-310

The European Green Deal, initiated by the EU Commission, is a package of measures aimed at decarbonization and sustainable economic development with the goal of making the European Union climate neutral by 2050. To achieve this goal, the emission reductions target must be increased from 40...

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