Chair of Economic Policy and SME Research

Intelligent Energy Usage in in Building Management (IEng)

Topic
Intelligent Energy Usage in in Building Management (IEng): Actors and Their Frameworks in the Area of Energy-Related Renovation of Existing Housing
Partial Project ÖN: Economic Sustainability


Client
Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF): Funding Priority "Environmental and Socially Conscious Forms of Energy Systems"


Running Time
10.2013 - 12.2016


Brief Description

Germany is in the midst of a turn-around in energy policy, the success of which also depends on whether a successful usage of energy in existing housing can be achieved. The key to this is discovering energy optimization potential. Beginning with intelligent energy usage in buildings and households, this includes optimizing the intersections between house and city engineering as well as the possibility for decentralized energy and heat production and storage.

Many of these possibilities are met with acceptance problems with the relevant institutional and private actors as well as with the relevant intermediaries regardless of their technical suitability. The main foci of this research project are therefor the actors who can be won over into a proactive participation for measures in existing housing. Their perception of the action situation and the preexisting patterns of behavior are to be examined as well as the constellation of incentives and the obstacles for a successful interaction between the actors. Such an analysis allows for an adaptation of political instruments to match the incentive situation and thus create suitable institutional frameworks for the necessary innovations and investments.

The work packets in the partial project "economic sustainability" develop based on (1) potentials for different technical options in existing housing (2) the methods by which actors need to cooperate to reach the normative goals of sustainability. From this emerges (3) in conjunction with the empirically discoverable behaviors of the actors (4) the delta that can be reduced through suitable measures. Finally, resulting from this are (5) recommendations for political implementation that should be discussed with the actors.

Project Partners


  • Network Coordination through Prof. Dr. Martin Führ, Hochschule Darmstadt
  • sofia - Sonderforschung interdisziplinäre Institutionenanalyse e.V.
  • Technical University Darmstadt
  • Economic Institute for SME and Crafts at the University Göttingen



Publications


  • Feser, Daniel & Till Proeger, 2017: Asymmetric information as a barrier to knowledge spillovers in expert markets, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal 13(1), 211-232.
  • Schneider, Tim, Lukas Meub & Kilian Bizer, 2016: Consumer Information In A Market For Expert Services: Experimental Evidence, cege discussion paper 285, Universität Göttingen. (Download)
  • Feser, Daniel, Kilian Bizer, Annette Rudolph-Cleff & Joachim Schulze, 2016: Energy audits in a private firm environment -
    Energy efficiency consultants? cost calculation for innovative technologies in the housing sector, cege discussion paper 275, Universität Göttingen. (Download)
  • Feser, Daniel & Till Proeger, 2016: Bad News travels fast. The role of informal networks for SME-KIBS cooperation, in: Joao Ferreira et al. (Ed.), Knowledge Intensive Business Services and Regional Competitiveness, Routledge: London/New York, 82-96.
  • Feser, Daniel & Petrik Runst, 2015: Energy efficiency consultants as change agents? Examining the reasons for EECs? limited success, ifh Working Paper 1, Universität Göttingen. (Download)
  • Feser, Daniel & Till Proeger, 2015: Knowledge-Intensive Business Services as Credence Goods -- a Demand-Side Approach, forthcoming in Journal of the Knowledge Economy
  • Feser, Daniel, Till Proeger & Kilian Bizer, 2015: Die Energieberatung als der zentrale Akteur bei der energetischen Gebäudesanierung?, Zeitschrift für Energiewirtschaft 39(2), 133-145.
  • Feser, Daniel, Nora Vogt & Stefan Winnige, 2015: Ökonomische Rahmenbedingungen der energetischen Gebäudesanierung, sofia-Diskussionsbeiträge zur Institutionenanalyse 15-1, Darmstadt. (Download)
  • Brüggemann, Julia, Kilian Bizer & Ullrich Kornhardt, 2014: Intelligente Energienutzung am Beispiel von Smart Metering. Eine akteurbasierte Analyse, Göttinger Handwerkswissenschaftliche Arbeitshefte 76, Duderstadt.



Vorträge


  • Annual Tokyo Business Research Conference, 9th-10th November 2015, Tokyo, Daniel Feser: "Economic policy in a market with credence characteristics: An explorative study on change agents".
  • Workshop des BMBF geförderten Projekts "lokale Passung": "Energiegerechte Sanierung - Anspruch und Wirklichkeit", July 3rd 2015, Augsburg, Daniel Feser: "Förderinstrumente und ihr Effekt auf die Sanierungsrate".
  • Mitgliederversammlung und Verbandstag des Gebäudeenergieberater Ingenieure Handwerk (GIH) e.V. Baden-Württemberg, June 26th 2015, Stuttgart, Daniel Feser: "Die Energieberatung als der zentrale Akteur bei der energetischen Gebäudesanierung".



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