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Do long-term improvements in air quality influence children’s educational outcomes? This paper investigates the impact of Low Emission Zones (LEZs), which restrict access to designated areas for emission-intensive vehicles, on the educational achievement of elementary school students in Germany. Using school-level data from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, we exploit the staggered ...
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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
132 (2025), 103165, 20 S.
| Johannes Brehm, Nico Pestel, Sandra Schaffner, Laura Schmitz
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Germany’s energy transition relies on variable renewables and electricity use across sectors, and it needs to accelerate. We argue that consistent policy commitments to proven technologies, such as wind and solar power, heat pumps and electric cars are needed.
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Communications Earth & Environment
6 (2025), 859, 5 S.
| Wolf-Peter Schill, Adeline Guéret, Alexander Roth, Felix Schmidt
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Sweden is at the forefront of the transition of its energy sector to low-carbon technologies with profound consequences for both energy generation and its distribution. However, the impact of this transition on the performance of Electricity Distribution System Operators (DSOs) has not been thoroughly studied. The article addresses this gap by using a novel approach and detailed georeferenced firm-level, ...
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Energy Economics
142 (2025), 108148, 20 S.
| Oleg Badunenko, Astrid Cullmann, Maria Nieswand
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Aligned with the war in Ukraine, Russia has significantly withheld natural gas exports to Europe since 2021. As there are no EU-wide sanctions on imports of Russian natural gas, the Ukraine transit as well as imports via Turkey and LNG have remained active during 2022–24. However, the Russian-Ukrainian transit agreement expires at the end of 2024 and discussions about new sanctions on natural gas as ...
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Energy Strategy Reviews
58 (2025), 101646, 10 S.
| Lukas Barner, Franziska Holz, Christian von Hirschhausen, Claudia Kemfert
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This study analyses travellers’ behavioural responses to two temporal measures implemented by the German government: the reduction in public transport prices, making it almost fare-free, and a decrease in fuel taxes to the minimum level permitted by European law. Based on a panel dataset of GPS-tracked trips collected before and during the price intervention from a representative sample of 276 individuals, ...
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Economics of Transportation
41 (2025), 100382, 10 S.
| Maria Fernanda Guajardo Ortega, Heike Link
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This paper explores the presence of an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) premium for firms operating in the energy, utilities, and basic materials sectors. Specifically, we examine the influence of ESG performance on firms’ cost of capital in both debt and equity markets. We apply a measure of the ex ante implied cost of equity and the cost of debt to a global sample of over 24,000 firm-year ...
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Utilities Policy
97 (2025), 102016, 15 S.
| Sindre Wilberg, Vibeke Kjellevoll, Franziska Holz, Anne Neumann
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Many governments consider new nuclear power plants to promote decarbonization. On the one hand, dispatchable nuclear plants can complement fluctuating generation from wind and PV. On the other hand, escalating construction costs and times raise economic concerns. This paper investigates the economic threshold at which nuclear plants are an efficient decarbonization option. Building on an extensive ...
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Energy Strategy Reviews
60 (2025), 101782, 22 S.
| Leonard Göke, Alexander Wimmers, Christian von Hirschhausen
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Significant amounts of electricity consumed in air and water pumping make wastewater treatment energy-intensive. This study investigates the potential power system benefits of load shifting within these pumping processes. As a case study, the Irish power system and wastewater sector are studied by using an integrated modelling approach. The results show that demand flexibility within the wastewater ...
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Applied Energy
381 (2025), 125128, 19 S.
| Dana Kirchem, Recep Kaan Dereli, Muireann Á. Lynch, Eoin Casey
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Mit der Invasion Russlands in die Ukraine im Februar 2022 wurde die Abhängigkeit der Europäischen Union von Energieimporten aus Russland offenbar. Die EU-Kommission reagierte mit dem Programm „REPowerEU“. Es hat zum Ziel, die Abhängigkeit von fossilen Brennstoffen aus Russland zu beenden, die europäische Energieversorgung zu diversifizieren, die Energieeffizienz zu erhöhen und die Energiewende durch ...
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Osteuropa
74 (2024), 11-12, S. 215-228
| Hella Engerer
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The use of gas will decline dramatically as part of the transition to net zero. Modeling at European levelsshows that by 2050 about 70% less gaseous fuels will be used. Significant regulatory reform is needed todeal with the impacts of this decline on the gas grid.
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One Earth
7 (2024), 7, S. 1158-1161
| Jan Rosenow, Richard Lowes, Claudia Kemfert