In recent years, the issue of energy has been brought more and more to public attention. But because of the increasing diversity of information, it becomes more and more difficult to separate statements based on a technically profound background from utopian scenarios. As an independent institution, the Research Center for Energy Economics has been helping to separate facts from opinions for many years in order to present and assess information in an objective way.

Examples are:

• Graphical illustration of complex statistical data, e.g. energy consumption figures

• Objective summarization of subject-specific literature

• Cooperation in expert panels

• Illustration of scientific contexts even for a lay audience