Natural gas prices in Germany saw a strong increase at the end of 2021, subsequently worsening with the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, raising concerns about the distributional consequences. Our study shows that low-income households are affected the most by the natural gas price...

Der Anteil der Solarenergie an der Stromversorgung in Deutschland hat sich rasant entwickelt, von weniger als einem Prozent in 2008 auf 5,7% in 2014 (AG Energiebilanzen, 2015). Die große Kostendegression in dem Zeitraum zog starke Vergütungssatzsenkungen nach sich (Fraunhofer Institut für...

Natural gas prices in Germany saw a strong increase at the end of 2021, subsequently worsening with the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, raising concerns about the distributional consequences. Our study shows that low-income households are affected the most by the natural gas price...

The German government is committed to reducing the primary energy demand of buildings by 80% by 2050. This requires increasing the rate of thermal retrofits from the current 0.8% to 2.0% per year. To explore how new and existing policies and programs could deliver the increased retrofit rate,...

Executive Summary The German government aims to reduce primary energy demand by 80% until 2050 and heating demand by 20% until 2020. Besides the need for additional efforts to achieve these targets, Germany has already implemented a set of policies and programmes to increase investments in...

The German government has committed to reducing the primary energy demand of buildings by 80% by 2050. Achieving this reduction will require foremost efficiency improvements, with a first milestone of a 20% reduction in heat demand levels by 2020. Given that about 80% of today’s building stock...

Um die Ziele des Energiekonzepts der Bundesregierung von 2010 und des beschleunigten Ausstiegs aus der Kernenergie zu erreichen, bedarf es erheblicher Investitionen zum Umbau der Energieversorgung. Dazu gehören insbesondere Investitionen in Anlagen zur Nutzung erneuerbarer Energien im Strom-...

Der Wärmemarkt spielt eine zentrale Rolle für die Erreichung der energie- und klimapolitischen Ziele der Bundesregierung. Insbesondere bei der Raumwärme in Wohngebäuden müssen große Einsparerfolge erzielt werden, wenn bis 2050 ein weitgehend klimaneutraler Gebäudebestand erreicht werden...