Meeting renewable energy targets: Global lessons from the road to implementation
This WWF/WRI report documents the challenges and solutions to scaling up renewable energy in China, India, Germany, Morocco, Philippines, South Africa and Spain.
This WWF/WRI report documents the challenges and solutions to scaling up renewable energy in China, India, Germany, Morocco, Philippines, South Africa and Spain.
This IEA review analyses the energy-policy challenges facing Germany and provides recommendations for further policy improvements. It is intended to help guide the country towards a more secure and sustainable energy future.
This report compares energy efficiency policy in buildings in China, Germany, and the United States, providing the context for, and describing, policies in these three coun- tries in order to lay the groundwork for future review of policy effectiveness…
This new report of the World Future Council provides an in-depth policy analysis of renewable energy frontrunner countries Germany, Denmark and Austria and identifies successful policy elements and instruments…
This World Bank study is designed to analyze the energy efficiency policies in seven countries that were successful in achieving low energy intensities or in reducing their energy intensity considerably
(…) By compiling data from a wide range of sources, we create the most comprehensive snapshot to-date of the current state of German climate finance. Our research suggests that EUR 37 billion, or 1.5% of GDP, was invested in 2010 to support the German transition to a low-carbon economy…
This WRI paper examines the development of the solar PV and wind industries across China, Germany, India, Japan, and the United States from 2001–2011.
The increasing use of energy from renewable sources (RE) for the generation of heat and electricity in Germany has also led to an increasingly intensive debate on its advantages and disadvantages. The discussion mostly centers on the cost effects, because beneficial effects often are harder to quantify…
A Chatham House Briefing Paper
German regulations for the thermal renovation of existing homes demand high thermal standards, which the government claims are technically and economically feasible. This paper examines existing data on 3400 German homes…
Germany has set itself a huge challenge in trying to move away from fossil fuels and abandon nuclear power, while remaining a major industrial power. This challenge to create an Energiewende – an energy turnaround or transformation – has ambitious targets…
This FEEM’s working paper presents a detailed documentation of the hybrid energy-economy model REMIND-D
This ICTSD’s paper analyzes renewable energy feed-in tariff (FIT) programmes in the context of World Trade Organization (WTO) subsidy rules. By examining the functioning of the FIT programmes implemented by the Canadian province of Ontario, Germany and the United Kingdom (UK) the paper explores how current subsidy rules may treat FIT programmes.
“This report explores how Germany has leapt ahead in developing renewable energy, maximizing energy use, and, more important, pursuing energy efficiency and energy conservation, particularly in the built environment…”
Revised version of Rie Watanabe’s doctoral thesis submitted to the Free University of Berlin, in April 2009.