Dr. Luca Lena Jansen

Recent projects

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• Germany

  Robust Development of the Energy System for Energy Security: Open Source Methodologies for the Robust Development of the Energy System for Energy Sovereignty and Resilience

  03/01/2024

  The importance of energy sovereignty and the resilience of the energy system has recently come to the fore in the energy policy debate. Russia’s ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine is leading to tectonic shifts and upheavals on a geopolitical level and thus also on an energy policy le

• Germany

  Scientific support to climate policy and climate action programme

  11/01/2022

  Next to the German legislative framework of the Climate Change Act trends in energy policy at European Union level are highly relevant for developments in Germany. The European Green Deal and its inherent aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by at least 55% by 2030 as compared to

• Germany

  joint-project: EmPowerPlan - regional planning of the energy transition - participation and justice on site and the big picture in mind; single-project: Power - big pictures and participation

  08/01/2022

  The overall “EmPowerPlan” project is about testing and adapting tools and collaborative processes to accelerate the expansion of the energy infrastructure. To this end, it is necessary to support regional planning – in a manner as participatory as possible - so that areas are released f

• Carbon pricing

  GHG Projections: Further development of the methodologies and implementation of the European Governance Regulation and the Federal Climate Change Act in the 2023 Projection Report ("Policy Scenarios XI")

  07/01/2022

  Within the framework of the international and European climate protection regime, projections for greenhouse gas emissions must be submitted every two years by the participating countries or member states, which comply with a specified reporting format. The aim of the project is to support th

• Germany

  Scientific support for the further development of instruments for the market ramp-up of hydrogen and its derivatives

  12/10/2021

  Oeko-Institut supports the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Action in the development of instruments for the market ramp-up of hydrogen and its downstream products. In this project, Oeko-Institut advises on three topics: production and use of low greenhouse gas hydrogen, certi

• Germany

  Evaluation of cogeneration 2021–2025

  11/01/2021

  In this project, the German Ministry for Economic Affairs (BMWK) is advised on all aspects of cogeneration. A special focus of Oeko-Institut's work in this project is to investigate the development of combined heat and power in Germany and to assess the associated effects on energy and greenhou

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  CCQI scores for IFM projects point to substantial integrity risks

  Blog 03/25/2024

  The Carbon Credit Quality Initiative (CCQI) has released new scores for the integrity risks of carbon credits from improved forest management (IFM) projects. We find that unrealistic baselines and underestimated leakage are likely to lead to significant overestimation of emission reductions or removals under all assessed methodologies. The likelihood of additionality depends strongly on the forest management practices that are implemented. The sustainable development benefits are more limited compared to most other project types.

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  Alternative reactor concepts do not solve the repository problem

  Press releases 03/21/2024

  A new scientific study commissioned by the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE) indicates that the market launch of alternative reactor concepts (also known as "Generation IV") is currently not on the horizon. "Despite some intensive advertising by manufacturers, we currently see no development that would make the construction of alternative reactor types on a large scale likely in the coming years. On the contrary: "From a safety perspective, we should expect the potential advantages of these reactor concepts to be outweighed by the disadvantages and the questions that remain unresolved," says BASE President Christian Kühn, and emphasises that "The concepts solve neither the need to find a repository for radioactive waste nor the pressing issues of climate protection."