Ulrike Lehr
Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftliche Strukturforschung mbH, Osnabrück, Germany
Christian Lutz
Gesellschaft für Wirtschaftliche Strukturforschung mbH, Osnabrück, Germany
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp110572370Published in: World Renewable Energy Congress - Sweden; 8-13 May; 2011; Linköping; Sweden
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 57:12, p. 2370-2377
Published: 2011-11-03
ISBN: 978-91-7393-070-3
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
The labor market implications of large investment into renewable energy (RE) are analyzed in this text. Although a growing RE industry can be observed in Germany the overall effect of large increases of expensive electricity and heat generating technologies on the German economy require a careful model based analysis. The paper shows the overall effects under different assumptions for fossil fuel prices; domestic installations and international trade. Most of these scenarios exhibit positive effects.
