Former Research Group of  Prof. Eberhard Jochem (Professor Emeritus)

Selected ongoing Projects

Energy Navigator - a Project Dedicated to the 150th Anniversary of ETH Zurich

Development of an Assessment System for Biogas Plants - 'Quality Certificate Biogas'

Solutions to today's energy and environmental policy conflicts can be found through adequate regulation and boundary conditions of energy markets, financial incentives and soft policy measures (e.g. professional training) for innovation, accelerated diffusion of energy-efficient technologies and the use of renewable energies. We view a sustainable industrial society as one that makes careful and intelligent use of its resources. A central strategy for solving an increasing number of energy policy conflicts also includes a reorientation of research and technology policy not just towards technological innovations but also towards cost reductions for energy- efficient technologies and the utilization of renewable energy sources. Efficient use of energy improves not only the competitive position of energy-intensive industrial branches, but - more importantly for European countries - also increases the export prospects of technology producers and energy service companies. Finally, more efficient use of energy significantly supports the creation of new jobs by substituting imported energies by domestically produced goods and services. The research group shares and supports the long-term vision of a 2000 Watt per capita industrial society formulated by the Swiss Institutes of Technology in 1998.

Research Group 2003: from left to right: R. Madlener, E. Jochem, M. Wickart, G. Catenazzi, M. Jakob, B. Aebischer, C. Liao, C. van Hezik, C. Cremer

Researchers

• Prof. Eberhard Jochem (head)

Alumni

• Dr. Reinhard Madlener
• Andreas Kemmler
  
• Cecile van Hezik
• Marcel Wickart
• Martin Jakob
• Andrea Honegger
• Dr. Bernard Aebischer
• Giacomo Catenazzi

Main research topics

• Energy efficiency potentials in various industrial and service sectors, the residential sector, and cross cutting technologies
• Estimates of energy demand under various scenarios in the industrial, service, and residential sectors until 2020 and in the long term with particular focus on new emerging technologies
• Interrelation between new information technologies and energy demand
  
• Cost reduction potentials of new energy-efficient technologies, low energy houses and conversion technologies using biomass
• Optimization of co-generation systems in a liberalised market environment
• Empirical research into market barriers, market imperfections, diffusion of innovative technologies, and decision patterns
• Conception, scientific assistance and evaluation of energy-policy measures, particularly of sector-specific instruments related to basic innovations and support of foreign trade of energy-efficient products and technologies using renewable energies

Annual report

Download annual report 2007 [pdf, 61 kB]