-
Research Project
For more than 50 years now, “Verkehr in Zahlen” (ViZ) has been the standard reference work for transport statistics in Germany. The compendium contains around 380 pages of current figures and time series on all relevant topics in the fields of mobility and transport.
The content ranges from annual figures on infrastructure investment to data on transport infrastructure, accidents, traffic volume...
Current Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
-
Research Project
The project “Implementing the local heating transition: Future initiatives for the energy transition in Lüneburg (Wärme-ZIEL)” investigates feasible strategies to support the shift toward a climate-neutral heat supply in the Lüneburg region. The goal is to accelerate the implementation of municipal heat plans, gather feedback from local stakeholders, and develop recommendations and strategies that...
Current Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
-
Research Project
The aim of the overall project is to initiate social learning processes relating to the energy transition. It aims to identify ways of overcoming obstacles and spell out options for coping with multiple crises. To this end, various key challenges will be examined. The following are of particular importance to the DIW subproject: a) the need for an unprecedented acceleration and scaling of the...
Current Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment, Public Economics
-
Research Project
Homepage
Current Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
-
Research Project
Project discription (german)
Homepage
Current Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
-
Research Project
The aim of this research project is the development and empirical evaluation of climate and social policy instruments, which on the one hand contribute to achieving climate neutrality by 2045, and on the other hand could be implemented in a socially compatible way. The focus is on empirical analysis of the distribution and incentive effects including their interactions which are evaluated by...
Completed Project| Public Economics, Energy, Transportation, Environment
-
Research Project
This project assesses the sustainability of the German economy by recognizing that environmental degradation is not limited to carbon emissions or confined by national borders. It complements existing sustainability indicators by combining environmentally-extended input-output (EE-IO) tables with national-level sustainability thresholds based on the planetary boundary framework introduced by...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment, Macroeconomics
-
Research Project
In the project "Open Hydrogen Modeling", we expand and link three Berlin-based open-source models: the Global Gas Market Model (GGM), the Global Energy System Model (GENeSYS-MOD), and the electricity sector model DIETER. We investigate the prospects of the hydrogen markets in creation, ranging from the global market to the European and German market. We are particularly interested in the...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
-
Research Project
The heat supply in the city of Berlin will have to be substantially reformed to reach the goal of climate neutrality by 2045 while it has to cope with high gas prices today. In the research project Open Heat BE, two open numerical models are combined to analyse the short term and long term challenges of heat supply in Berlin. At TU Berlin, the energy system model GENeSYS-MOD is used at municipal...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
-
Research Project
In the framework of its research focus on the future of coal, DIW Berlin is a cooperation partner of the research group "CoalExit" at Europa-Universität Flensburg (previously at TU Berlin). "CoalExit" is a multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional research group which brings together scholars from Europa-Universität Flensburg, TU Berlin, HU Berlin, and DIW Berlin. Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert and...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
-
Research Project
In sectors of general interests, the economic activity of the state decreased over decades as a consequence of privatisation and liberalisation. Recently, local governments began to remunicipalise in the energy and water sector, thereby creating a new and modern generation of state-owned firms. These firms, however, differ in organisation and production environment from the state monopolists of...
Completed Project| Firms and Markets, Energy, Transportation, Environment
-
Research Project
The aim of the project “Open ENergy TRansition ANalyses for a low-carbon Economy” is to develop, apply and disseminate an open, transparent and integrated modelling platform designed to assess low-carbon transition pathways in Europe. The platform will initially be populated with a suite of state-of-the-art modelling tools by the project partners that will process data derived from the multiple...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
-
Research Project
Determining a robust mix of energy carriers for a carbon-neutral EU
Decarbonising the European energy system requires a fundamental transformation in the way societies provide, transport and consume energy. Disagreement exists over how this system should look in 2050. In this project, we prepared an overview report on the decarbonisation options for coal, natural gas, and hydrogen in Europe.
The...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
-
Research Project
Project synopsis
Achieving the Paris agreement requires a radical transformation of the inherently inert energy system. Assets in the form of fossil energy resources and existing infrastructure along the fossil value chain are at the risk of rapidly losing value and becoming „stranded assets”. Asset owners, therefore, have incentives to delay or even prevent the implementation of climate policies...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
-
Research Project
The objective of this project is to investigate previously under-researched aspects of decarbonizing the German electricity sector in the European context and to derive an assessment of concrete policy instruments for both the German and the European level. In doing so, we extend existing analyses that focus solely on a coal phase-out in Germany by considering a wider geographical scope including...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
-
Research Project
In this report, the role of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project for the German and the European natural gas market was investigated in the short run and the long run. In the short run, no supply gap can be identified that would justify the speedy finalization of construction works on the Nord Stream 2 project. In the long run, there is no need for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline due to the German and...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
-
Research Project
The goal of this research project is to investigate the current and future usage of the electricity transmission grid in the context of the energy transformation. To this end, the project develops methods to allocate short- and long-term network costs based on the individual network usage. Specifically, it proposes algorithms for power flow allocation and carries out a systematical assessment and...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
-
Research Project
The project provides scientific advice to the Federal Environmental Agency (UBA/DEHSt) and the Federal Ministry for the Environment in evaluating, implementing nationally, and further developing the EU’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). Central topics of the analyses are the interaction of the EU ETS with energy and climate policies, the structural development of the EU ETS post-2020 and its...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
-
Research Project
The Copernicus Project P2X explores the implementation and validation of “Power-to-X” within the context of the Energiewende. The project is divided into six technology clusters, three of which focus on electrolysis and the other three on catalysis. The work of DIW Berlin is within the first catalysis cluster (FC-B1) and the economies of liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC). The DIW is also...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
-
Research Project
‘SET-Nav – Navigating the Roadmap for Clean, Secure and Efficient Energy Innovation’ is an EC-funded project which intends to support strategic decision enhancing innovation towards a clean, secure and efficient energy system for Europe's energy sector. The project started in April 2016 and is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme. It is being implemented by a consortium of...
Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment