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Energy Policy
Production, use and trade of energy is a central issue not only for economic growth but also for the environment, the climate, and human health. FFU researchers and doctoral students consider measures that have and can be taken to develop an energy supply that minimizes environmental impacts while supporting economic development, technological innovations, and employment.
A driving force behind the FFU’s work on renewable energy and energy efficiency is the environmental damage being caused by the extraction, delivery, consumption, and waste emissions associated with conventional energy sources, and especially coal, oil, and nuclear energy. The FFU’s research concentrates mainly on renewable energy (e.g. wind, solar, solid and gaseous biomass, biofuels), energy efficiency, and climate change. Research is also conducted on energy markets and energy security. The FFU has expertise related to low carbon energy politics in Germany, the European Union, North America, South America, the Commonwealth of Independent States, East Asia and the Caspian region.
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Main foci
Renewable Energy
Energy Efficiency
Energy Markets, Security and the Environment
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Ongoing Projects
- Initiative for Climate Protection and Employment in Berlin and Brandenburg
- Multi Level Governance-Perspective on management of nuclear waste disposal. A Comparative Analysis: Actors, Instruments and Institutions
- Transfer von Politikinstrumenten zur Stromeinsparung (TRANSPOSE)
Completed Projects
- Bioenergy Promotion
- Chernobyl +20
- Czech-German Initiative for a Dialogue on an Ecological Tax Reform in the Czech Republic
- Energy efficiency in liberalised energy markets
- Energy policy in the Caspian Region
- Energy Turnaround Climate Protection and Economic Development
- German-Polish Workshops for Green Tax Reform in Poland
- Greening of North European Electricity Industry
- Identification of non-nuclear projects for the German-Ukrainian co-operation
- Initiative for Climate Protection and Employment in Berlin and Brandenburg
- Internationalisation of the energy market and the interdependency between German and Danish Energy Policy
- Overcoming restrictions to establish an extension of small scale CHP in the Regional Capital Hanover
- Preparation, Implementation and Documentation of the Conference 'Energiewende - Atomausstieg und Klimaschutz'
- Preparation of non-nuclear projects for the German-Ukrainian co-operation
- REALISE FORUM (Renewable Energy and Liberalisation in Selected Electricity Markets-Forum)
- RegEnergy - Project Component 3
- Success conditions of instruments for the promotion of renewable energies in the electricity market
- The Foundation of an International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
- The Future Development of Renewable Energy Sources in Particular Con-sideration of the German Federal States (RE FS)
- The Promotion Policy for Wind Energy - Actors Constellation, Pattern of Innovations and Regulation Approaches in an International Comparison
- Transformation and Innovation in Power Systems (TIPS)
