Globale Herausforderungen wie Wasserknappheit und Wasserverschmutzung werden auch in Deutschland vermehrt sichtbar. Trinkwasser wird teurer, weil die Bereinigung von zunehmender Verschmutzung auf die Verbraucher*innen umgelegt wird, obwohl sie durch Industrie und Landwirtschaft verursacht werden. Gleichzeitig zahlen die für ihren Wasserverbrauch oft sehr wenig. Wie können Industrie und...
The massive expansion of wind power and solar PV is the primary strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in many countries. Due to their variable generation profiles, power sector flexibility needs to increase. Geographical balancing enabled by electricity grids and temporal flexibility enabled by electricity storage are important options for flexibility. As they interact with each other, we investigate ...
Rent control is a highly debated social policy that has been omnipresent since World War I. Since the 2010s, it is experiencing a true renaissance, for many cities and countries facing chronic housing shortages are desperately looking for solution, directing their attention to controling housing rents and other restrictive policies. Is rent control useful or does it create more damage than utility? ...
We fit CES and VES production functions to data from a numerical bottom-up optimization model of electricity supply with clean and dirty inputs. This approach allows for studying high shares of clean energy not observable today and for isolating mechanisms that impact the elasticity of substitution between clean and dirty energy. Central results show that (i) dirty inputs are not essential for production. ...
