This background paper presents the results of the IÖW/ZEE study, published in September 2010 under the title Kommunale Wertschöpfung durch Erneuerbare Energien (Municipal value creation from renewable energies), which examined the effects of renewable energies on jobs, income, turnover and tax revenues of local communities.

The German Renewable Energies Agency (AEE) therefore engaged the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) and the Centre for Renewable Energies of the University of Freiburg (ZEE) to develop a tool-kit to unravel the various value creation effects of renewable energies at the municipal level as of the end of 2009, in order to compare them. 

The total value creation for municipalities increases from 6,8 billion euro in 2009 to 12,3 billion euro in 2020, if renewable energies can be expanded as forcasted by the German Renewable Energy Association (BEE) and the Renewable Energies Agency (AEE). It avoids expenditure for fossil fuel imports amounting to 33 billion euro by 2020. 

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