Ergänzend zu den im ifo Schnelldienst 3/2006 veröffentlichten Beiträgen gehen Eberhard Jochem, ETH Zürich, und Harald Bradke, Fraunhofer Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung, davon aus, dass Versorgungssicherheit durch Ausnutzung von Effizienzpotentialen zu erreichen sei. Ihrer...

Profitable energy-efficiency potentials are often not exploited in industry since management tends not to focus on energy issues. Sharing experiences between companies reveals possibilities for reducing the transaction costs involved. For this purpose, regionally or locally-organised learning...

The People's Republic of China foresees a target of 30 GW for installed wind power capacity by 2010 (2008: 12 GW). This paper reports on the technical and economic potentials of wind power, the recent development, existing obstacles, and related policies in China. The barriers to further...

With greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions decreasing by more than 18% in the 1990s, Germany appears to be among the few industrialised countries which are on track to meet the targets they committed themselves to under the Kyoto Protocol. This achievement may appear less remarkable if one takes into...