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KEY NOTE LECTURE

Abstract

The whole energy system needs to undergo important transformations due to challenges stemming from climate change and actual and future resource scarcity. These transformation processes will take place on a technical but also on a societal level. Therefore, a broad understanding of the “energy system” as such and of its transformation” is needed. This lecture tries to show the technical, economical and societal challenges and to identify the links between them.

Biography

Eva Hauser, M.A., born 1972, studied political science, economic and social history and anthropogeography at the Universities of Saarbrücken and Cardiff from 1991 to 1997. She wrote her Master thesis on European Regional Policy. Afterwards, she worked as a project manager on studies about energy efficiency at Energy-Cities in Besancon in France ; later on, she worked in the management of two non-profit companies in the field of research and waste management in France. Since 2007, she is working for the research institute IZES, Saarbrücken, Germany. Her main research areas are the transformation of the electricity system to a renewables based-one, with a special focus on the necessary political and economical regulatory framework.