PUBLIC INVESTMENTS IN EDUCATION AND ENERGY TRANSITION IMPACTS ON CEE/GERMAN TRANSFORMATION

Abstract

A focus on higher education has reaped very large dividends for our countries. As an important step energy transition for future generations needs better education for an efficiency increase. Based on CEE/German1 transformation, process actual investments in renewable energy (RE) sector offer great economic and global potential as a growth sector2. But impacts of the financial crisis complicated decisions and implementation of public Investment projects3. In this paper we examine two energy case studies based on the challenges of an energy transition implications for public/private investments and impacts on regional/global sphere: Desertec first example of a comprehensive approach: expanding the production of electricity from solar thermal power plants in Europe, North Africa/Middle East and transmission networks. Second example as best practice case is bioenergy: business development and implementation of public/private SME-project. Based on Müka assessment of education and energy investments, we ffinally consider financing of SMEs and RE.