The book investigates two important subjects simultaneously. On the one hand, it is concerned with the detailed processes which have lead to quite different innovation diffusion pathways of combined heat and power technology in the UK and Germany since the early Eighties. On the other hand, this...

A more sustainable heat supply of the built environment is needed to reach the policy goal of a climate-neutral economy in the Netherlands by 2050. This paper presents a method using a spatial energy model to calculate the most cost-effective CO2- reduction potential of a sustainable heat supply...

Die gekoppelte Strom- und Wärmeerzeugung in Heizkraftwerken stellt zweifellos eine bedeutende Strategie zur Verminderung der vom Energieeinsatz ausgehenden Umweltprobleme dar. Zudem ist es volkswirtschaftlich gesehen vorteilhaft, den Raumwärme- und Warmwasserbedarf mit...