Coping with prolonged periods of low availability of wind and solar power, also referred to as renewable energy droughts or "Dunkelflaute'', emerges as a key challenge for realizing decarbonized energy systems based on renewable energy sources. Here we characterize extreme European droughts and investigate the role of long-duration electricity storage and geographical balancing in dealing with...
Meeting summaries October 2025, online: Hedging Locational Price Risk under LMP – Experiences from North America August 2025, Berlin: Is electricity market reform necessary? July 2025, Brussels: Local Market Places: market design options June 2025, online: Congestion Management with Locational Marginal Pricing – First-Hand Experience from North America March 2025: Local Marketplaces June 2024, Berlin: ...
Key publications Events The Climate Friendly Materials Platform analyses the transformation of basic material production and use to achieve carbon neutrality. It brings together researchers from leading think tanks and universit ies to enhance Europe’s analytic understanding of how individual instruments can be implemented and combined into a coherent policy package. Activities are coordinated ...
Individuals hold normative ideas about the just distribution of goods and burdens within a social aggregate. These normative ideas guide the evaluation of existing inequalities and refer to four basic principles: (1) Equality stands for an equal distribution of rewards and burdens. While the principle of (2) need takes individual contributions into account, (3) equity suggests a distribution based ...
