Die Monopolkommission hat kürzlich ein Sondergutachten zu den Energiemärkten im Spannungsfeld von Politik und Wettbewerb veröffentlicht. Hans-Jochen Luhmann setzt sich mit den Aussagen zum Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz kritisch auseinander. Hierauf folgt eine Replik von Mitarbeitern der...

The idea of removing carbon dioxide from flue gas and industrial gas flows and putting it into suitable long-term storage sites is referred to as Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). This publication provides a close look at this new line of technologies, describing its current status and outlining...

Germany's current efforts to decarbonize its electricity system are analysed. As nuclear power and fossil power plants equipped with carbon capture and storage were ruled out in 2011, renewable electricity generation (RES) together with electricity savings are the primary focus for achieving...

The German energy transition represents a policy-driven, sustainability-oriented restructuring of both supply- and demand-side components of the entire energy system by 2050. Whereas the development of renewable energies in the electricity sector is right on track, due to the feed-in tariffs of...