IEE is a competent partner for scientific research, economics and administration especially for electricity companies, regulatory positions as well as for decision makers in administration and politics.
The central fields of activity of the institute include:
- Business administrational and national economical questions of energy economics
- Electricity markets (electricity exchanges, capacity markets...)
- E-Mobility
- Energy and environment (Emissions, Climate change...)
- Energy efficiency
- Energy system modelling
- Energy planning (OR-Methods, Energy strategies, Energy plans, Energy concepts...)
- Energy Psychology
- Innovative energy technologies (fuel cell, chp, heat pumps...)
- Power Demand Side Management
- Public interest in the energy economy (transmission lines, hydro power plants, water rights...)
- Renewable Energies (Hydro power, biomass, wind energy, solar energy...)
