Wirkungen des Ausbaus erneuerbarer Energien

Impact of renewable energy sources

Dr. Ulrike Lehr

Experience

Ulrike Lehr studied physics at the University of Essen (graduated in 1990) and economics at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (M.Sc. Econ). Between 1993 and 1999 she worked at the Rhine-Westphalia Institute for Economic Research (RWI) in Essen. From 1999 she worked at the Department of Environmental Economy, BTU Cottbus; from 2001 at the Department of Regulatory Governance and Environmental Economics at the University of Hohenheim. She wrote her doctoral thesis in 2005 on the transfer of benefits in environmental assessment and the application of the contingent valuation method. Between 2005 and 2008 she worked in the Department of Systems Analysis and Technology Assessment at the DLR Institute for Technical Thermodynamics in Stuttgart. Since 2008, Ulrike Lehr has been working at the GWS.

Work focus

  • The macroeconomic effects of efficient energy use and the expansion of renewable energies.
  • Assessment of funding instruments and sustainable development of energy systems
  • Environmental and energy economics

Publications

  • Lehr, U. & Drosdowski, T. (2013): Soziale Verteilungswirkungen der EEG-Umlage. GWS Discussion Paper 13/3, Osnabrück.
  • Großmann, A., Lehr, U., Wiebe, K.S., Wolter, M.I. & Fleissner, P. (2013): Feasible Futures for the Common Good. Energy Transition Paths in a Period of Increasing Resource Scarcities. Progress Report 5B: E3.at and HYBRIO – Model Comparison. The project is funded by the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund.
  • Großmann, A., Lehr, U., Wiebe, K.S. & Wolter, M.I.(2013): Feasible Futures for the Common Good. Energy Transition Paths in a Period of Increasing Resource Scarcities. Progress Report 5A: Modelling the effects of the energy transition in Austria. Assessment of the economic and environmental effetcs. The project is funded by the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund.
  • Ulrich, P. & Lehr, U. (2013): Erneuerbar beschäftigt in den Bundesländern! Bericht zur aktualisierten Abschätzung der Bruttobeschäftigung 2012 in den Bundesländern. Studie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit, Osnabrück.

Contact

Institute of Economic Structures Research (gws)
Heinrichstrasse 30
49080 Osnabrück
Germany
Phone +49 541 40933-280
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Wirkungen des Ausbaus erneuerbarer Energien

Impact of renewable energy sources