Background papers
Here you find a list of current background papers.
Charts and Data
The electricity mix in Germany 2010
Renewables delivered nearly 17% of the gross electricity consumption in 2010. Wind energy is the most represented kind.
Renews Special
Solar Parks – Opportunities for Biodiversity
Renews Special 45 / Solar Parks - Opportunities for Biodiversity
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Economic and climate benefits
Renewable energies are a stabilizing factor in the economic crisis, as they increase turnover and jobs. They are becoming more competitive...
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The Full Picture of Renewable Energy
At first glance, many reservations regarding renewable energy sources appear plausible. Yet they often conceal a completely different picture.
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Renews Special
Twenty years of support for electricity from renewable energies in Germany
Renews Special 41 / September 2010
Renews Special
Renewable energies and base load power plants: Are they compatible?
Renews Special 35 / June 2010
Renews Special
Value creation for local communities through renewable energies
Renews Special 46 / December 2010
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Solar Parks – Opportunities for Biodiversity
Renews Spezial 45/Dec. 2010
Report about Biodiversity in and around Solar Parks
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The National Renewable Energy Industry Roadmap
Berlin, 30th January 2010. Bundesverband Erneuerbare Energien e.V. (BEE)
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Report: Renewable energy sources in Germany have significantly surpassed...
Predictions and reality - comparison of forecasts and the actual development of renewables in Germany.
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Electric Mobility And Green Electricity
Presentation of the German approach to electric mobility. Facts and figures.
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Biofuels – climate protectors cultivated in Germany
Apart from renewable electro-mobility, biofuels are indispensable for energy-efficient transport structures of the future
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Wood energy – from the camp fire to pellet heating
In 2011, some 7 percent of Germany’s heat consumption and around 1.9 percent of its electricity consumption was covered by wood energy.
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Biogas – efficient electricity, heat and fuel production
Biogas offers agriculture an additional pillar to diversify its economic activities.
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Bioenergy is a useful part of crop rotation
Rape can only be grown on the same area every three to four year – a monoculture is therefore excluded.
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Biodiesel saves up to 66% CO2
The climate balance of the various biofuels depends on how energy-intensive the cultivation is and how complicated the transport and conversion are to organise .
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Bioenergy and food prices - which relations?
Only a fraction of the agricultural goods produced worldwide have been used to date as bioenergy.
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Renewable energy sources are climate protectors
Use of renewable energy sources instead of oil, coal and natural gas is the most important way to achieve the reduction targets for greenhouse gases which are harmful for the...
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Local advantage
Numerous local authorities and regions, especially in rural areas, are making the development of energy supply through domestic renewable energy the centre of their economic...
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Renewable energy - an employment driver
Renewable energy creates employment. At the end of 2008, approximately 280,000 people in Germany were employed in planning and designing, installing and operating plant and...
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Renewable mobility
People and goods can be moved on land, water and in the air with renewable energy. In less than ten years, renewable energy's share of fuel consumption has risen from zero to...
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Renewable heat
The heat requirement in Germany is also increasingly being covered by renewable energy (share in 2007: 6.6 %). To date, renewable heat comes mainly from bioenergy in the form...
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Agriculture and bioenergy do not compete against each other
Apart from food, our agriculture can also provide 25% of our energy.
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More wind energy with fewer turbines
Wind is everywhere and the right turbine is available for every location.
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