Gaspreisdeckel, Gasumlage, Strompreisdeckel und der Versuch, auf den Ölpreis einzuwirken, haben eines gemeinsam: sie bekämpfen Symptome einer gescheiterten, national und fossil geprägten Energiepolitik, meint IKEM-Geschäftsführer Simon Schäfer-Stradowsky in seinem Standpunkt. Eine stabile und preiswerte Energieversorgung könne nur erreicht werden, wenn endlich strukturelle Reformen in Richtung einer koordinierten europäischen Energiewende angegangen werden.

Russia's invasion and climate change are forcing the EU to rethink the energy supply. The European Commission recently announced several new policies, including the REPowerEU program. This article in the German Wind Power Magazine examines whether the new efforts are in line with science-based goals to tackle the climate crisis.

IKEM’s first Gender Equality Plan strives to sustainably transform its organizational processes, structures and cultures to combat and reduce gender imbalances and inequalities in its research and work. The Plan establishes concrete objectives (based on a status quo assessment), and specific measures that will be implemented in the period of 2023 till 2025 to improve gender equality within IKEM and in the field of research and innovation in the climate transition. The Plan further establishes clear responsibilities for different activities and outlines timelines of the measures to be implemented, and for measuring progress and success.

The 40-page magazine offers a compact overview of IKEM’s activities over the past year. In addition to information on research projects, events and financials, the report includes an interesting interview with managing directors Simon Schäfer-Stradowsky and Susan Wilms and provides insight into the work of IKEM’s five interdisciplinary teams.

In the past year, the Institute’s 72 researchers examined various aspects of the energy transition as participants in more than 87 projects. The topics were diverse and ranged from cross-border electromobility in Europe and the marketing of green electricity in Berlin and Brandenburg to the connections and interdependencies between quality of life, health and climate protection, which we are researching in the newly founded One Health Research Centre.

Most of the funding for IKEM’s research came from project funds, national and European funding programmes (52.9%), and public (21.2%) and private contracts (20.4%). Annual turnover rose to around €3.64 million in 2021.

In dieser Kurzstudie stellt das IKEM neun Reformvorschläge zur Förderung des Windkraftausbaus an Land und des Ausbaus von Freiflächen-Photovoltaikanlagen (PV-FFA) vor. Die Vorschläge sollen bestehende Defizite bei der Zielfestlegung, der Flächenausweisung und dem Genehmigungsverfahren beheben.