
Eike Karola Velten
Diplom-Wirtschaftsingenieurin (Graduate Industrial Engineer of Energy and Environmental Management)
Coordinator Energy
Senior Fellow
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Eike Karola Velten (née Dreblow) is a Senior Fellow at Ecologic Institute and Coordinator Energy. She studies the transition to climate neutrality with a focus on climate mitigation policies for the energy sector in particular. As a trained industrial engineer, Eike Velten specializes in data analysis and indicator-based evaluations. She works in German and English.
With over ten years of experience at Ecologic Institute, Eike Velten has led and contributed to a variety of projects for European and German institutions. Currently, she evaluates innovative climate mitigation projects carried out under the German National Climate Initiative (NKI). She also analyzes ex-ante assessments and ex-post evaluations of the climate policies in National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs). In 2019, she evaluated and ranked Member States' draft NECPs.
Eike Velten is particularly interested in decarbonization of buildings and the transport sector. In this context, she analyzed direct and indirect emissions from road transport and buildings with the goal of a possible expansion of the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). She also assessed integrated approaches for building policies and identified effective policy instruments to increase the use of electric vehicles. Moreover, she produced a dataset on used vehicle fleets and trade in Europe in order to analyze their environmental impact.
Eike Velten provided scientific support to the expert commission of the monitoring process on the energy transition in Germany from its beginning in 2011 until 2019. For the annual monitoring reports, she contributed analysis on the progress in improving energy efficiency and reducing emissions in the transport and building sector.
Eike Karola Velten studied industrial engineering with an emphasis on energy and environmental management at the University of Flensburg (Germany). In her diploma thesis at Fichtner, she researched how concentrating solar power plants could be registered under the Clean Development Mechanism. She spent a year abroad at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) to attend classes on marine science.
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Selected projects by Eike Karola Velten
Monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Europe 2020 Strategy and Policy Initiatives beyond 2020
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European Commission, Eurostat (Eurostat), International
Assessing Policy Evaluations in the Context of the National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs)
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German Environment Agency (UBA), Germany
Support to the Expert Commission on the "Energy of the Future" Monitoring Process
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Federal Network Agency (BNetzA), Germany
Selected publications by Eike Karola Velten
Duwe, Matthias; Eike Karola Velten, Isabel Haase, Nicolas Berghmans, Nick Evans and Deyana Spasova (2021): Measuring progress towards climate neutrality. Ecologic Institute, Berlin / IDDRI, Paris
Velten, Eike Karola 2021: Evaluierung der Nationalen Klimaschutzinitiative. Bericht zum Förderaufruf Innovative Klimaschutzprojekte. Ecologic Institute: Berlin.
Climact, Ecologic Institute (2020): Analysing the impact assessment on raIsing the EU 2030 climate target - How does the European Commission’s approach compare with other existing studies?
Agora Energiewende (2019): European Energy Transition 2030: The Big Picture. Ten Priorities for the next European Commission to meet the EU's 2030 targets and accelerate towards 2050.
Velten, Eike Karola; Clemens Brauer, Jan-Erik Thie (2020): Used vehicle trade and fleet composition in Europe. Final report of the project "Used vehicle trade and fleet composition in Europe" on behalf of the EEA. Ecologic Institute and Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI: Berlin, Karlsruhe.
Velten, Eike Karola, Stoll, Theresa; Meinecke, Lisa (2019): Measures for the promotion of electric vehicles. Ecologic Institute, Berlin. Commissioned by Greenpeace e.V.
Steuer, Sibyl et al. 2020: Lessons learned to inform integrated approaches for the renovation and modernisation of the built environment. Final Report to the European Commission, Directorate-General for Energy. ENER/C3/2019-468/03
Velten, Eike Karola and Ricarda Faber 2020: Why the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility must prioritise investments in building renovation. A short think piece. Berlin: Ecologic Institute.