Allotment gardeners show how it's done: they harvest part of what they need every day to live. The situation is similar with energy production. More and more households not only consume energy, but also produce it themselves [...]
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As a renewable energy source, geothermal energy can increasingly replace fossil fuels and thus contribute to climate protection and create added value locally. Despite great potential, the share of heat from deep geothermal [...]
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Heating networks play an important role in climate-neutral heat supply. The project aims to provide scientific support for the implementation of a grid-connected supply approach in the center of Leeste in the Lower Saxon [...]
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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 [...]
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Neighborhood energy concepts can enable new paths for higher energy efficiency and renewable energies at the local level by taking an integrated view of energy generation, consumption and decentralized infrastructure. For [...]
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The heat transition has been omnipresent in public discourse since the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine and is receiving a great deal of political attention. With the “Gebäudeenergiegesetz” and the “Wärmeplanungsgesetz”, [...]
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In the Berlin Energy and Climate Protection Act, the state of Berlin has set itself the binding goal of becoming climate neutral by 2045 at the latest. Whether this goal is achieved depends largely on the development of the [...]
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The Paris Agreement, which is binding under international law and was adopted at the 21st International Climate Change Conference (COP21) in 2015, has provided a new basis for climate protection policy in all countries. [...]
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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 [...]
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About half of Berlin’s carbon dioxide emissions stem from heating buildings. Reducing the demand for heat through energy-efficient building refurbishment and shifting to renewable energy and waste heat for heating are the two [...]
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A third of the final energy consumption in Germany is used for heating and hot water. Thus, heat consumption is an important factor when it comes to tackling global challenges such as climate change, energy efficiency and [...]
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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 [...]
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Berlin hat sich mit dem Berliner Energiewendegesetz das Ziel gesetzt, bis spätestens zum Jahr 2050 die CO2-Emissionen auf ein klimaneutrales Niveau zu senken. Zudem hat sich der Senat mit der Anerkennung einer Klimanotlage in [...]
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The Paris Agreement, which is binding under international law, has created a new basis for climate policy in all countries and municipalities. In order to contribute to achieving the goal of limiting anthropogenic global [...]
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Almost 50% of final energy consumption in Germany is used for heating, thus heat consumption is an important factor when it comes to tackling global challenges such as climate change, energy efficiency and resource [...]
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The energy transition does not work without a heating transition. More than 80 percent of households' energy consumption is due to the provision of space heating and hot water supply. The average age of heaters in residential [...]
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The chances of regional policy approaches for climate protection become more and more clear. Strategies like “climate-neutral region” or “100 percent renewable-energy region” are an indicator for promising approaches. The [...]
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The economic effects of energy efficiency measures and especially those of energy-saving building refurbishment are barely mentioned in regional energy concepts. In view of this fact the German Federal Ministry for the [...]
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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 - [...]
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The central objective of the project is to identify possible development pathways for heat supply in the existing housing stock, which take into account social needs, are accepted by stakeholders, and enable a reduction of [...]
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Um Rebound-Effekte und deren Ursachen bei der Sanierung von Nichtwohngebäuden genauer zu untersuchen, hat das Projektteam Zukunft Bau im Rahmen einer Sondierungsstudie eine Methodik dafür entwickelt und in ersten Fallstudien [...]
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Berlin's Senate has set the agenda for transforming Germany's capital towards climate-neutrality until 2050. The Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) has already been involved in the feasibility study [...]
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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, [...]
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The German federal government is aiming at reducing heating energy consumption in its properties by 20% by the year 2020, in conformity with commitments by the wider public service sector, and for this it has developed a [...]
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The Energiewende in Germany needs to be accompanied by energy efficiency measures. One of the most relevant topics in this regard is the energy-efficient retrofitting of residential and office buildings. Here, large savings [...]
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The usage of renewable energies (biofuels, biogas, green electricity and hydrogen deriving from it) can be considered to be one of different approaches towards a more sustainable mobility. As especially Brandenburg offers [...]
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The Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Consumer Protection commissioned the IÖW to calculate the value added of renewable energies of two local authorities in the German State [...]
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Brandenburg seeks to reduce its energy-related CO2 emissions by 40 percent in 2020 compared to the year 1990. Furthermore, CO2 reductions of another 35 percent are planned until 2030. To achieve these objectives, the [...]
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Political targets aiming at mitigating climate change and increasing energy productivity will only be reached if companies significantly increase their energy efficiency. This can be based on efficient production processes or [...]
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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 [...]
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Based on a short questionaire and the last heat cost billing CO2online compiles heating surveys for landlords and lodgers. Due to the heat cost billing and the reply of the questionaire, the heating survey includes [...]
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Domestic space heating and hot water account for over a quarter of final energy requirements in Germany. An energy-efficiency refurbishment of buildings could reduce this energy consumption and the related CO2 emissions by up [...]
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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 [...]
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Renewable energy sources are a national and international growth market. In particular, countries with so-called lead markets which are quick to develop successful export strategies can hope to achieve long-term employment [...]
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The conference „land use and climate change mitigation policies“ discussed the mitigation potentials of agriculture, biomass for energy generation and peatland renaturation for carbon storage and the trade-offs and synergies [...]
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The agriculture in Germany accounts for a significant degree of greenhouse gas emissions. In climate protection strategies (i.e. the energy and climate programme of the federal government), the contribution of the agriculture [...]
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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 [...]
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