Current projects of Dr. Swantje Gährs

• Rebound Effects by Switching to Renewable Energies? Analysis of consumers and prosumer households (EE-Rebound)

  Private households play an important role in achieving Germany’s climate protection targets. In addition to switching energy procurement to renewable energy sources (RE), it is also important for households to reduce their [...] More

• PROSumers for the Energy Union (PROSEU) Mainstreaming active participation of citizens in the energy transition

  

  The focus of PROSEU is the research into, as well as the design of, incentive structures for mainstreaming prosumerism in the European Union, thereby encouraging and safeguarding citizen participation, inclusiveness and [...] More

• Climate Protection Potential of Digitalization Potentials of digitalization for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the energy sector

  Digitalization is a future trend of our society – also in the energy sector. Driven by political goals and processes, legal foundations and market players, a lot of digital innovations from electricity meters, to controlling [...] More

• Designetz: A Modular Concept for the Energy Transition From Isolated Solutions to an Efficient Energy System of the Future

  

  The ‘Designetz’ showcase spans North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarland. It aims to supply solar and wind energy to urban and industrial consumers. For this purpose numerous demonstration projects are [...] More

• Energy storage services for smart neighbourhoods (Esquire)

  

  For the energy transition it becomes more and more important to storage power decentralized. This way, local produced renewable energy can be consumed flexible while reliving the power grid. An important component are battery [...] More