The Ministry is responsible for the following policy areas:

• Further development of transport infrastructure
• Promotion of new areas of growth and technologies
• Further development and modernisation of the research landscape and the institutions of higher education
• Business start-up support, promotion of Schleswig-Holstein as a business location and activities related to foreign trade
• Strengthening education, continuing education and qualification
• Modernisation of the tourism infrastructure
• Energy policy.

The "Energy" division is assigned to the Technology and Energy Department includes among other things responsibilities for energy policy, energy law, competition law, price control, energy efficiency (energy saving and efficient use of energy), renewable energies (wind power, biomass, solar energy, geothermal energy), municipal and regional energy policy, energy strategy.  

The Ministry is a project partner in the BEEN project. Acting as external consultants for the Ministry are the Energieagentur Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel, and the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für zeitgemäßes Bauen e.V. in Kiel.