• Forecast of the short run movement (quarterly data) of energy-prices, energy-consumption and sectoral production especially the sectors and installations participating in the emission trading system.

• Evaluation of the current energy supply and consumption in cathegories of the energy balance (primary energy consumption, evaluation tables and complete energy balances). 
 
• Permanent monitoring and analysis of the greenhouse gas reducing instruments in the EU (emission trading, renewable energy, ecological taxation) 

• Analysis of the short run development of worldmarket prices for crude oil, oil-products, natural gas and hard coal and their influence on energy-costs and – expenditures, sectoral production and economic growth. 

• Analysis of special issues of the ETS, determinants of CO2-prices, different rules of allocation and their impacts on sectoral production costs, energy-industrial and economical evolution in Germany and the EU-27.