The European Dimension of Germany's Energy Transition

Towards a European Energy Transition? A Review of Current Policy Challenges and Scientific Debates.- Part I. The European Climate and Energy Policy Framework.- EU Climate and Energy Policy beyond 2020: Are Additional Targets and Instruments for Renewables Economically Reasonable?.- EU Climate and Energy Policy beyond 2020: Is A Single Target for GHG Reduction Sufficient?.- Assessment of Policy Pathways for Reaching the EU Target of (at least) 27% RES by 2030.- The Influence of European State Aid Law on the Design of Support Schemes for Electricity from Renewable Energy Sources in Germany and Other Member States.- A Step Further Towards a European Energy Transition: The "Clean Energy Package" from a Legal Point of View.- Part II. Unilateralism or Cooperation and Convergence?.- Electricity Market Integration and the Impact of Unilateral Policy Reform.- Creating Convergence of National Energy Policies by Increased Cooperation: EU Energy Governance and Its Impact on the German Energy Transition.-  Policy Convergence as a Multi-faceted Concept: The Case of Renewable Energy Policies in the EU.- International Coordination on the Provision of Power Generation Capacity - An Institutional Economic Assessment of Decision-Making Competences in a Union of States.- From National to Cross-Border Support of Renewable Electricity in the European Union.- On the Alleged Need to Strictly Europeanize the German Energy Transition.- Germany: Forerunner in Europe with Respect to Energy System Transition?.- Part III. Is There a "Dark Side" to Germany's Energy Transition?.- The Myth of the Dark Side of the Energiewende.- Ensuring Industrial Competitiveness with a Unified European Approach to Sustainable Energy.- Rising Energy Prices due to Inefficient Support for Renewables? An Economic Assessment of status quo and Alternatives in Germany.- Import Dependency and the Energy Transition: a New Risk Field of Security of

Erik Gawel is Full Professor of Economics, esp. Environmental Institutional Economics, and Director of the Institute for Infrastructure and Resources Management at Leipzig University, Germany. He is also heading the Department of Economics at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ in Leipzig. He graduated from Cologne University with diploma and PhD in economics. He was Visiting Professor in the Postgraduate Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG) "Risk Regulation and System of Civil Law" (Bremen University) and habilitated at Augsburg University, Germany. He was scholarship-holder of the German National Academic Foundation, the DFG and Max Planck Society. He is, i.a., member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and academic editor of the journal "energies". His main areas of research are environmental and energy economics, new institutional economics, esp. law and economics, as well as public finance.

Sebastian Strunz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Economics at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ in Leipzig. His main research deals with the politico-economic conditions of sustainability transitions, with a particular focus on Germany's energy transition in the European context. Before joining the UFZ, he earned a PhD in sustainability economics at the Leuphana University in Lüneburg and a Magister Artium in economics and political science at the University of Heidelberg. His further research areas include the conceptual foundations of sustainability economics and the methodology of transition research.



Paul Lehmann heads a junior research group at the Faculty of Economics and Management Science at the University of Leipzig. He is also a guest researcher at the Department of Economics at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ in Leipzig. Previously, he was a post-doctoral researcher at UFZ and spent research visits at