Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISIThis key research area supports the planning and implementation of sustainable energy and development strategies in emerging and developing countries. This includes assessing the potentials and possible diffusion pathways for renewable energy technologies, energy efficiency, model-based analyses of energy systems, the evaluation of local value creation potentials for energy technologies and the development of policy instruments and strategies supporting sustainable energy transitions.
Global Energy Transition
Projects within this key research area
- Elaborating the regulatory and incentive framework for energy efficiency in Algeria
- Incentive Mechanisms for Energy Efficiency (EE) in Companies in Ukraine
- Implementation of ECOWAS Approved Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) and Development of New MEPS for Electric Appliances in West Africa
- KfW PtX Algeria – Assessment and Analysis of the Power-to-X Market and Investment Opportunities in Algeria
- H2-diplo - Decarbonization Diplomacy - The role of green hydrogen in the energy transformation of fossil fuel exporters
- Morgenstadt Global Smart Cities Initiative (MGI) - Support to cities in India, Mexico and Peru in the development and implementation of sustainable transformation processes (IKI/BMU)
- OPTRES 100
- German Sustainable Heating Solutions - Best Practices and Applicability in China
- SET Roadmap Preparation: Phase II economic and legal/regulatory/market studies (SET-Roadmap)
- Implications of the decrease of RES-E and battery cost projections for the revision of the NDCs of selected countries - NDC-Update
- Study on the Opportunities of "Power-to-X" in Morocco (GIZ PtX Marokko)
- Technical Assistance for the Development of an Energy Information System for the Member States of the "Indian Ocean Commission", 2019, on behalf of the "Commission de l'Océan Indien" (COI)
- Review of the Multi-Tier Framework for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) of the United Nations, on behalf of the GIZ/BMBF, 2018
- MENA CSP Knowledge & Innovation Program - The Middle East and North Africa Concentrated Solar Power Knowledge and Innovation Program, on behalf of the World Bank, 2017-2019
- Assessment of the Local Manufacturing Potential for Renewable and Conventional Power Supply and Energy Efficiency Technologies in Saudi Arabia, on behalf of the World Bank
- Development of the 5th ASEAN Energy Outlook 2017
- Support to the Development of the 4th ASEAN Energy Outlook (Asean Energy Outlook 2015)
- Ausbaustrategien für erneuerbare Energien in Nordafrika, Fraunhofer Zukunftsthemen »SUPERGRID«, 2013
- Middle East and North Africa Region Assessment of the Local Manufacturing Potential for Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Projects