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Scientific Support of the BMU/BMWi in the Field of Renewable Energies 2012-2015 (BMU-RE 2015)

Project
Duration: Aug 2012 - Apr 2015

In the course of the German "Energiewende", Ecologic Institute supports the German Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMU) and - since March 2014 - the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy - in the further development of existing instruments to promote renewable energies in both the electricity and heat sector (Renewable Energies Sources Act and Renewable Energies Heat Act), including the increasing system, grid and market integration of electricity from renewable sources, the production of biogas and its feeding into the natural gas grid, questions regarding the promotion of bioenergy and solar energy, legal questions regarding the implementation of the European legal framework on renewable energies, and supporting the BMU in the Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP).

Funding: Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), Germany

Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), Germany
Team: Christine Lucha

Arne Riedel, LLM

Andreas Prahl

Dr. Mark Wimmer

Jens Lukas

Dominik Müller, LLM

Dr. Wolfgang Urban
Duration: Aug 2012 - Apr 2015
Project ID: 2390
Keywords: Climate

Economics

Energy

Governance

Renewable Energies, Renewable Energy Sources Act, Renewable Energies Heat Act, Renewable Energies Directive (RED), electricity, heat, bioenergy, biomass, biogas, biomethane / renewable natural gas, sustainability, solar radiation, photovoltaics, wind energy, geothermal energy, market integration, grid / system integration, equalisation scheme, guarantee of origin, feed-in tariff

Germany