WWF's goal is to develop an attractive and convincing narrative that a more social and ecological economy is urgently needed due to the serious global environmental problems such as the loss of biodiversity, ocean [...] More

In the decentralised energy transition, it is possible for households, prosumers and businesses to make their energy consumption more flexible. As a result, they can shift their energy demand to times of high supply. This [...] More

In April 2014, the Federal State Government of Brandenburg passed its Sustainability Strategy. One of the 16 fields of action focus on the management of „natural resources as the economic potential of a sustainable regional [...] More

The subproject ‘The governance of deep transitions: The role of international organisations’ is part of a larger research project based at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex (SPRU) in the UK and is [...] More

A resource-efficient economy based on renewable resources, with less or even no use of fossil resources at all – that is the objective of the German “National Policy Strategy on Bioeconomy”. The German Federal Government [...] More

In recent years, collaborative economy practices have been boosted substantially by the advent of the Internet and the proliferation of digital networks. As collaboration between strangers has been greatly facilitated by the [...] More

The result of the research project will be the systematization and processing of existing knowledge concerning the development dynamics, the guiding principles and the interdependencies of the infrastructures and possible [...] More

The objective of the project is to investigate and develop a new, intelligent and democratic district heating grid. The grid is - in contrast to exisisting district heating systems with one flow line and one return line - [...] More

In order to improve the innovation climate in Germany and Europe, representatives of research-intensive large companies and meanwhile the EU are calling for the introduction of an “innovation principle”, which should [...] More

On behalf of the think tank Denkwerk Demokratie, IÖW has examined the conditions for a mobility transition as well as its implications for the German automotive industry. Denkwerk Demokratie is financed by trade unions and [...] More

The German „Energiewende“ is understood as a project of societal transformation with the goal to create a resilient energy system. Due to path-dependency, such transformation cannot be achieved by public regulation only, but [...] More

Due to the energy transition, all stakeholders in the energy industry are facing fundamental challenges. They have to realign and coordinate their positions, strategies, decisions and actions. This also applies to private [...] More

Private households are increasingly in the spotlight not only as consumers but also as a provider of innovative generated power. The applications of renewable generated power become even more diverse and engage in the classic [...] More

This project analysed the potential economic, technical and environmental benefits of energy storage systems in grid-connected photovoltaic systems in domestic households by investigating the following questions:   In [...] More

The project aims to further develop and optimize a new membrane process for upgrading biogas to methane, whereby the focus is on its potential contribution to climate change mitigation. The company, Ingenieurbüro Buse GmbH, [...] More