START2030 aims at providing comprehensive analyses of the economic incidence and social impacts of a transition to a 100% renewable electricity system by 2030. Policy scenarios will be analysed to depict the broad range of effects of this transformation.

The analysis will deliver insights on the emission impact as well as on the macroeconomic and distributional effects of the transformation. Policy recommendations on how to mitigate detrimental effects on vulnerable groups will be derived. The project is carried out under the leadership of the Austrian Institute for Economic Research (WIFO) and in cooperation with the Centre of Economic Scenario Analysis and Research (CESAR).

Project duration

• Start: 31.10.2020
• End: 31.10.2022

Contributors of the institute

• Udo Bachhiesl (Project manager at the organizational unit)
  Assoc.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn.
  bachhieslnoSpam@tugraz.at
   
• Sonja Wogrin
  Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. M.Sc.
  wogrinnoSpam@tugraz.at
   
• Robert Gaugl
  Dipl.-Ing. BSc
  robert.gauglnoSpam@tugraz.at
   
• Lia Gruber
  Dipl.-Ing. BSc
  lia.grubernoSpam@tugraz.at
   
• Thomas Florian Klatzer
  Dipl.-Ing. BSc
  thomas.klatzernoSpam@tugraz.at
   

Partners

• Austrian Institute for Economic Research, WIFO
• Centre of Economic Scenario Analysis and Research, CESAR

Funding agency

• Climate and Energy Fund