Germany energy policy

Krewitt, W., Nitsch, J., Fischedick, M., Pehnt, M. and Temming, H. (2006). Market perspectives of stationary fuel cells in a sustainable energy supply system - longterm scenarios for Germany. Energy Policy, 34 (2006), 793-803. 

A major element of energy policy in leading industrial countries such as the United States, Germany, Britain, Japan, and France has been provision of substantial aid to existing energy industries. Part of the... 

Dr Eberhard Jochem is Professor Emeritus for Economics and Energy Economics at the Centre of Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE) at ETH Zurich, which he founded in 1999. He has been senior executive at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI), Karlsruhe, Germany, since 2000. He is an internationally acknowledged expert in technical, socioeconomic and policy research, mainly in the field of energy efficiency and climate change. 

As is the case with wind energy, solar power has most traction in countries such as Germany, Spain, Cyprus and Japan, all of which offer incentives to improve the uptake of renewable energy sources as part of their implementation of a diversified energy policy. In Cyprus, more than 50 percent of hotels and 90 percent of homes have solar water heating.21 As Figure 10 illustrates, such policies enabled Japan to develop a healthy lead in this industry, producing nearly half of the PV cells manufactured. 

A recent article in Solar Today on Germany s renewable energy policies reported that the German government is moving toward increasing the country s use of renewable energy, perhaps by up to 50 percent by 2050. The drivers behind this development are the risks associated with... 

S. Boehmer-Christiansen and J.F. Skea, Acid Politics Environmental and Energy Policies in Britain and Germany, Belhaven Press, London, UK, 1991, p.15. 

The electricity industry and, above all, coal-powered electricity plants play a prominent role in Germany. Energy and environmental policy regulations on the use of hard coal and lignite constitute a highly sensitive political matter in this country. 

Sustainability is vital for survival. The basis for life must be preserved for future generations. The energy transition, which Germany decided following the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, is central to the current sustainability policy. 

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