Project

The Energy Concept of the German Federal Government, the so-called Energiewende, contains, among expansion of renewable energy generation, ambitious goals for energy efficiency. Among others, primary energy consumption is set to be reduced by 20% until 2020 and 50% until 2050. Electricity consumption is set to be reduced by 10% until 2020 and 25% until 2050 (each compared to the base year 2008). Based on the „Law for the installation of a special budget for energy and climate“ (EKFG) from December 2019 (BGBI. I, S. 1807), the Energy Efficiency Fund was established in 2011.

Both as a working basis for the improvement of the German energy efficiency policy and for national and European reporting obligations, the goal of this project is to conduct a full evaluation of the Energy Efficiency Fund. In this context, the fund as a whole as well as each of the single policies should be evaluated and policy recommendations should be formulated. For the evaluation the three basic dimensions foreseen in § 7 of the Federal Budget Regulation (BHO) are employed: target achievement, impact assessment and economic assessment.

As a basis for evaluation, at first an evaluation system was developed and continuously adapted to the methodological challenges of evaluating the Energy Efficiency Fund. The methodological concept was structured in such a way that it takes account of the variety and heterogeneity of policies financed by the fund. Hence, the system establishes a common development of evaluation. It is structured in three main sections: goals, indicators and methods. In the goals section, the goals of the fund as a whole as well as each of the single policies are collected. This way, the goals of the single policies are directly related to their contribution to the goals of the Energiewende. In a second step, indicators were developed that could measure the target achievement, impacts and economical factors. Furthermore the programme administration is analysed. In the methods section, necessary data for the evaluation and systems of data collection are defined. Results can be found in the publications and will be added shortly.

• Schlomann, B.; Voswinkel, F.; Hirzel, S.; Paar, A.; Jessing, D.; Heinrich, S.; Antoni, O.; Kahles, M. (2020): Methodikleitfaden für Evaluationen von Energieeffizienzmaßnahmen des BMWi (Projekt Nr. 63/15 – Aufstockung), Endbericht im Auftrag des BMWi. Gemeinsam mit Prognos AG, ifeu und Stiftung Umweltenergierecht. Karlsruhe: Fraunhofer ISI.
• Hirzel, S.; Antoni, O.; Heinrich, S.; Jessing, D.; Paar, A.; Pehnt, M. et al. (2019): Evaluierung und Weiterentwicklung des Energieeffizienzfonds. Im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi). Abschlussbericht – Langfassung. Karlsruhe, Heidelberg, Basel, Würzburg.
• Hirzel, S.; Schlomann, B.; Voswinkel, F.; Heinrich, S.; Jessing, D.; Paar, A. et al. (2019): Evaluierung und Weiterentwicklung des Energieeffizienzfonds. Abschlussbericht - Kurzfassung. Karlsruhe, Heidelberg, Basel, Würzburg.
• Voswinkel, Fabian (2018): Accounting of energy savings in policy evaluation. How to get at least 8 different (correct!) results from the same data: Paper presented at IEPPEC - International Energy Policy & Programme Evaluation Conference, Vienna, Austria.
• Voswinkel, Fabian; Grahl, Andrea (2018): Less hot air for a less hot climate: Evaluating the German waste heat reduction programme - ECEEE Industrial Efficiency Conference, Berlin, Germany.
• Schlomann, Barbara; Hirzel, Simon; Nabitz, Lisa; Heinrich, Stephan; Jessing, Dominik; Paar, Angelika; Pehnt, Martin; Antoni, Oliver (2017) - From targets to impacts: Eight steps for evaluating energy efficiency policies - IEPEC Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA.
  

January 2016 until September 2019

• German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)

• Prognos AG
  
• ifeu
• Stiftung Umweltenergierecht