EnSu
The Role of Energy Sufficiency
in Energy transition and society
Welcome to the homepage of the junior research group “The Role of Energy Sufficiency in Energy Transition and Society” – short EnSu.
On our website you can find information on our research and the project as well as on our publications and upcoming events.
New paper on the role of sufficiency measures for European energy security and carbon neutrality by 2050
Further information can be found in the paper, which can be found via the button above and in the publications. Go to the paper A new paper on the fundamental role of sufficiency has been published in the scientific journal Nature Communications. The paper presents a European-level scenario that considers sufficiency options as essential for carbon neutrality and energy security. The CLEVER scenario (Collaborative Low Energy vision for the European region) shows one way of achieving a...
EnSu presentations at the ECEEE
Expert discussion of the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development
Recording of the German-language online seminar “Basic course on sufficiency”
Manifesto for sufficiency: towards mainstreaming sufficiency in EU policies
Putting sufficiency into practice: The Hafen-Ost real-world laboratory in Flensburg, Germany
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our research interest
How can energy sufficiency be defined and distinguished from other strategies?
What hinders the implementation of sufficiency policies and measures?
What characterizes successful transformation strategies which encompass energy sufficiency?
How can the effects of succiciency be described, evaluated and quantified?
Which multiple effects of energy sufficiency measures can be described (quantitatively and qualitatively)?
How can energy scenarios be developed in inter- and transdisciplinary processes?
The Ensu Team
The junior research group “The role of energy sufficiency in energy transition and society” (EnSu) will systematically include sufficiency strategies in energy system modelling and discuss the current and necessary societal frame conditions for establishing energy sufficiency strategies.
INSTITUTIONS INVOLVED
How can energy consumption decrease in absolute terms?
How can societal change be integrated in energy modelling?
These questions are in the center of the research activities of the junior research group “EnSu – The Role of Energy Sufficiency in Energy Transition and Society” that started in May 2020. The project is funded by the German federal ministry for education and research (BMBF) within the research framework for sustainable development (FONA).
Six junior scientists working at the Öko-Institut (Freiburg), the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy and at the Europa University Flensburg (EUF) aim at studying the transformation processes of society in the context of the Energiewende and making the insights applicable to energy system modelling.