Reducing electricity consumption in private households (TRANSPOSE)

Duration: 01.04.2008 - 31.03.2011

Transfer of Electricity-saving Policies (TRANSPOSE)

Background
Electricity consumption in German households is continually growing and its high primary energy intensity has consequences for the environment and energy security. Research findings show that there is a wide variety of ways to conserve electricity in private households. Private households in Germany could conserve much more electricity than is currently the case. Barriers at a number of levels make it difficult for consumers to use energy more sparingly.

Project aims
This project aims to identify these barriers and subsequently develop, on the basis of this information, policy instruments that could help stimulate and foster the sustainable use of electricity in German homes. Possible policy instruments range from better information and education strategies, measures to reduce transaction costs, and the strengthening of consumer power (such as producer-consumer dialogues) all the way to public-private partnerships, energy efficiency funds and top-runner approaches which elevate the most environmentally-friendly product technology in a market to the status of standard technology. The work to identify these policy instruments draws on examples of best practice from other countries. The TRANSPOSE project is examining the effectiveness of the individual instruments in the respective country and investigating whether it would be viable to transfer them to the German context. Transfer also means working closely with stakeholders to adapt the internationally most effective instruments for conserving electricity to the German context and initiate steps for their implementation.

Co-ordination
Professor Doris Fuchs, PhD
University of Münster
Institute for Political Science
Scharnhorststr. 100
48151 Münster, GERMANY
Tel. +49 (0)251 8325326
E-mail doris.fuchs(at)uni-muenster.de

Dr Kerstin Tews
Free University of Berlin
Environmental Policy Research Centre (FFU)
Ihnestraße 22
14195 Berlin, GERMANY
Tel: +49 (0)30 838 550 98
E-mail: ktews(at)zedat.fu-berlin.de

Research partners
Öko-Institut e.V. - Institute for Applied Ecology: Veit Bürger
University of Kassel, Institute for Psychology, Social Psychology and Innovation Psychology: Junior Professor Dr Dörthe Krömker
University of Konstanz, Chair of Empirical Theory of the State: Professor Dr Volker Schneider

Field partners
Verbraucherzentrale NRW (Consumer Advice Centre of North Rhine-Westphalia)
Wittenberg - Center for Global Ethics (WZGE)
Northern Alliance for Sustainability (ANPED)

 

Publikationen im Rahmen des Projekts

9 Projektpublikationen

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• Dehmel, Ch. (2010)
  Austausch von Kühlgeräten durch effiziente Neugeräte in privaten Haushalten. Die Trennungsprämie in Österreich im Vergleich zu ähnlichen Programmen in Dänemark und den Niederlanden
  TRANSPOSE WORKING PAPER No9, Münster/Berlin, 83 mehr
• Tews, K. (2010)
  Politikinstrumente zur Förderung des Austauschs von Nachstromspeicherheizungen. Good Practice aus Dänemark
  TRANSPOSE WORKING PAPER No8, Berlin, 40 mehr
• Krömker, D. & Dehmel, C. (2010)
  Einflussgrößen auf das Stromsparen im Haushalt aus psychologischer Perspektive
  TRANSPOSE WORKING PAPER No6, Kassel, 108 mehr
• Pamme, H. (2010)
  Stromsparen in Privathaushalten - aktuelle europäische Ansätze und ihre umweltpolitische Reichweite
  TRANSPOSE WORKING PAPER No7, Münster/Berlin, 22 mehr
• Tews, K. (2009)
  Politische Steuerung des Stromnachfrageverhaltens von Haushalten. Verhaltensannahmen, empirische Befunde und Politikimplikationen.
  TRANSPOSE WORKING PAPER No5, Berlin, 33 mehr

  

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