Projects of Dr. Astrid Aretz

• Home-Office and energy transition: Implications of mobile working and opportunities for the transition of the energy system Electricity consumption, mobility behavior and rebound effects

  

  Due to the Corona pandemic, there has been movement in the perception and use of home office and teleremote working. In this joint project, the energetic and non-energetic implications of this change that are relevant for the [...] More

• Accompanying Scientific Research for Energiewendebauen Research Initiative – Digitization module

  Digitization is leading to profound changes in many sectors and in modern societies as a whole. The transformation is in full swing and offers many open questions and design options that need to be researched [...] More

• DETECTIVE – Energy saving through digitalisation Systematic recording and evaluation of the energy saving potential of digital applications in the electricity and heat sector

  The smart meter roll-out – at least for the electricity sector - is ready to start. In the next few years, this market launch will create the technical infrastructure for the digitalization of the energy transition, which, in [...] More

• Energy Sharing: A Potential Analysis Collectively Generating and Using Electricity in the Distribution Grid: A Study on the Implementation Proposal under Article 22 of the EU Renewable Energy Directive

  In order to achieve the climate protection targets for Germany, the new German government must get a great deal underway very quickly. The expansion of the renewable power supply remains central, in particular due to the [...] More

• Electricity neighbours: social-ecological self-sufficiency through renewable energies and sector coupling? A project of the joint program ‘Knowledge. Transformation. Berlin.’ by the research partnership Ecornet Berlin

  

  Solar energy and tenants‘ electricity are a focus of Berlin's Energy and Climate Protection Program (BEK 2030), because the technology is central to climate protection and for social participation in the transformation [...] More

• Social-ecological economy within planetary boundaries

  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

• Distribute Green Local Supply Chains for Tomorrow’s City

  

  E-cargo bikes instead of vans and light trucks for the delivery of goods on the last mile: This is how the project “Distribute” tries to relieve increasing neighborhood traffic. Door delivery has long been an integral part of [...] More

• Future Potentials of a Rural Bio-Economy Analysis and Assessment of Value Chains of a Multiple and Cascade Based Usage of Renewable Raw Resources (Phase I)

  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

• AcceptEE - Factors for promoting acceptance of renewable energies

  The acceptance of renewable energies is a central condition for a successful German "Energiewende". Therefore, this project aims to investigate the question whether a nature and environmentally friendly expansion of renewable [...] More

• Regional and economic potentials of agro-forestry systems Economic analysis of value-added chains for evaluation and quantification of the economic factor of agro-forestry systems in a model region of the research project called AUFWERTEN

  The innovation group AUFWERTEN aims to investigate into needed preconditions for a stronger implementation of agro-forestry systems in rural areas. For that, an trans- and interdisciplinary approach is applied. The IÖW will [...] More

• IT and Electrical Power Supply: Potentials and Risks of Coupling Regarding Vulnerability and Resilience

  

  With the Energiewende Germany has to arrange a fundamental transformation of the energy system, which will be characterized by a high content of volatile renewable energies. The accompanying fluctuations of the energy supply [...] More

• Prosumer potentials in NRW 2030

  Prosumers play a major role within the discussion about the shaping process of the energy turnaround. Furthermore and in line with the amendment process of the EEG 2017, participation possibilities of tenants were discussed [...] More

• „Mieterstrom“ – Obstacles and Potentials

  Based on the study “Mieterstrom: Legal Classification, Forms of Organisation, Potentials and Economic Efficiency of Tenant-run Electricity Models” commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, the [...] More

• Brief study on a re-design for the existing EEG cost apportionment

  In a brief study, resulting effects of a change in the distribution mechanism of the costs for the EEG apportionment were examined. The re-design proposed an extension of the basis for the EEG apportionment which not only [...] More

• Determination of the Value-Added and Employment Effects in Three Selected Bioenergy Regions

  With the competition „Bioenergy Regions“, the German Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection aims to promote regional structures in the field of bioenergy. As part of the accompanying research of this [...] More

• Expansion of renewable energies Impacts within an integrated socio-economic and ecological overview analysis

  With the "Energiewende" Germany is on the way towards a fundamental transformation of the energy sytem with the future focus on renewable energies. Especially the substitution of fossil fuels - as source of greenhouse gas [...] More

• Private Households as New Key Actors in the Energy System's Transformation Process

  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

• Analysis of Economic, Technical and Environmental Benefits of Energy Storage Systems in Grid-connected Photovoltaic Systems

  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

• RE-Regions: Socio-Ecology of Self-Sufficiency The conditions for and diffusion of concepts for the complete energy supply of municipalities and regions on the base of renewables - main focus on bioenergy

  There is broad consensus today that local involvement is needed to achieve climate protection targets agreed on a higher political level. Renewable energy self-suffiency can make a significant contribution to this. Especially [...] More

• Value Added by Renewable Energies - Calculation of the Effects on State and Federal Level

  Value added by renewable energies (RE) is an important argument for political decision-makers on different spatial scales. In the study “Local value added by renewable energy technologies”, the Institute for Ecological [...] More

• Value-Added and Employment Effects by the Expansion of Renewable Energies

  In the last few years, the IÖW has published a series of studies on the quantification of value added and employment by renewable energies. On behalf of Greenpeace Deutschland, the IÖW has updated value added and employment [...] More

• Impacts of the Expansion Plans for Renewable Energies until 2020 on Value Added and Employment

  Prior to the energy summit of the German federal government and the states on November 2nd, 2012, the German government proposed to limit support for wind energy and bioenergy generation similar to the cap imposed on the [...] More

• Decentralised micro biogas plants ("micro-biogas") Development of transferable concepts of sustainable biogene residue and waste materials usage for micro-biogas production in villages and rural areas.

  The project "micro-biogas" aims to develop transferable concepts of sustainable usage of biogene residue and waste materials for micro-biogas production in villages and rural areas. Technical concepts and feasibility studies [...] More

• Effects of self-consumption and grid parity of photovoltaic systems

  Many actors in the photovoltaic (PV) industry often proclaim the forthcoming “grid parity” as an important moment in the market development of PV. However, the exact meaning of this terminus and its potential effects on [...] More

• Value added and employment creation of renewable energies in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 2010 and 2030

  The IÖW develops in conjunction with the Center for Technology and Society (CTS), TU Berlin, and Rostock Energie-Umwelt-Beratung e.V./Institut (EUB) as part of a scientific study, a mission statement for "Mecklenburg-Western [...] More

• Local value added by renewable energy technologies

  Communities are important drivers in the development of renewable energies. They can benefit at the same time because, as a rule, previously imported energy feedstocks or final energy will be replaced by local energy sources, [...] More

• Potentials of renewable energy sources in Berlin 2020 and in the long term - Quantification and generation of measures to reach ambitious expansion targets

  The city of Berlin is developing an integrated energy concept for 2020. In cooperation with the Berlin Energy Agency the IOEW will identify realizable technical potentials for renewable energy sources up until 2020 and [...] More

• Futures and Visions: Forest 2100

  Systematic preparation for the world of tomorrow would appear the most logical course of action. Consequently, the project “Forest Futures 2100” wants to illuminate the horizon of expectable, possible and desirable future [...] More

• Dendrom - Future perspectives of wooden biomass (so called "dendromass")

  Currently a rapidly growing demand for biomass (largely due to energetic usage like electric power, heat and bio fuels but also material usage like wood materials and paper) is meeting a falling supply of adequate resources [...] More

• Current energy and climate policy framework conditions (international, EU, Germany)

  The short study constitutes a contribution to the development of an energy and climate protection strategy for Vodafone. In the context of a background paper for the company Vodafone AG, the IÖW described the energy and [...] More