WEX-RES Renewable energy systems in Austria and their economic growth rates and export potentials

The project is analyzing all relevant Austrian renewable energy technologies including biomass (solid, liquid and gasoline), photovoltaics, geothermal energy, solar thermal energy, hydro power, wind power and heat pumps. Energy technologies that cannot be defined as dedicated to one of the above mentioned but combine two or more single areas (e.g. cogeneration, trigeneration, solar supported biomass heating systems…) are associated with the project according to appropriate definitions of respective limits for each technology investigated.

In the framework of the report the investigation focus on the future development potential of the technologies including planning, system integration and production. Therefore all “producing” branches and companies are investigated further. Beneath the renewable energy technologies mentioned before some cross-sectional technologies are of further interest (e.g. hot and cold storages) and investigated separately.