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DIW Discussion Papers 2139 / 2025
Populist parties increasingly deploy narratives of social injustice to portray climate policy as elitist and unfair. This paper investigates how such narratives affect public attitudes toward populism and democratic institutions. We conduct a survey experiment with approximately 1,600 respondents in Germany, exposing participants to three common narratives about the distributional costs of climate ...
2025| Matilda Gettins, Lorenz Meister
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Externe Monographien
Die Umstellung von fossilen Brennstoffen auf erneuerbare Energien ist essenziell, um Klimaneutralität zu erreichen. Da das Potenzial steuerbarer erneuerbarer Energien in den meisten Ländern begrenzt ist, werden zukünftige Energiesysteme voraussichtlich überwiegend mit Strom aus fluktuierender Wind- und Solarenergie betrieben. Der Ausgleich zwischen Stromnachfrage und wetterabhängiger, variabler Erzeugung ...
Berlin:
Technische Universität Berlin,
2025,
XVII, 275 S.
| Martin Kittel
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DIW Discussion Papers 2121 / 2025
This study examines how policies affecting the cost of using fossil fuels in production influence comparative advantage in the industrial sector. Firstly, we use a fixed-effects gravity model to estimate the export capabilities that determine comparative advantage. Subsequently, using data on direct (carbon taxes, ETS permit prices) and indirect (fossil fuel excise taxes and subsidies) carbon pricing ...
2025| Antonia Kurz, Stela Rubínová
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Introducing electricity purchase conditions in renewable fuel regulations and carbon accounting is a controversial issue in the US and Europe. We argue that their impact must be assessed considering demand flexibility, local grid conditions, and overlapping policy instruments such as emissions trading schemes and renewable portfolio standards. The introduction of more stringent requirements has a significant ...
In:
iScience
28 (2025), 5, 112349, 8 S.
| Lissy Langer, Kenneth Bruninx, Anders Bjørn, Lukas Barner, Julien Lavalley, Hadi Vatankhah Ghadim, Rasmus Bramstoft
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DIW Weekly Report 20/21 / 2025
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 triggered an energy crisis in Germany, with consumer energy prices skyrocketing over the course of the year. Due to concerns about gas shortages, various programs aimed at reducing consumption were set up and the German Federal Government and numerous organizations appealed to consumers to save as much energy as possible. This Weekly Report investigates how much ...
2025| Sophie M. Behr, Till Köveker
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The EU Taxonomy is a classification system for sustainable economic activities and a framework for various regulatory initiatives. Its primary objectives are to enhance transparency, to reduce greenwashing and ultimately to redirect capital toward more sustainable activities. However, since its introduction, market participants have raised concerns about whether the benefits justify the costs. This ...
In:
The Economists' Voice
22 (2025), 1, S. 161–172
| Franziska Schütze, Benedikte Sandbaek
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Chlorine is an essential feedstock for polymers and pharmaceuticals, with annual production exceeding 100 Mt. Nearly all Cl2 is obtained by chlor–alkali electrolysis, which consumes about 2.58 MWh of electricity per tonne. Renewable energies such as wind and solar would lower CO2 emissions, but electrolysers would then have to adopt to fluctuating, renewable energies while downstream processes still ...
In:
Green Chemistry
27 (2025), 33, S. 9874-9881
| Merlin Kleoff, Franziska Klaucke, Patrick Voßnacker, Rainer Weber, Karsten Neuhoff, Sebastian Riedel
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DIW Discussion Papers 2133 / 2025
Carbon pricing policies are usually combined with compensation for exposed firms to prevent adverse competitiveness effects. In cap-and-trade systems, this carbon cost compensation mostly occurs through free allocation of emission permits. Using an administrative panel of German manufacturing firms, this paper investigates how free allocation in the European Union Emissions Trading System affects firms’ ...
2025| Till Köveker, Robin Sogalla
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Residential electricity consumers equipped with photovoltaic (PV) systems and battery storage, also referred to as solar prosumers, are transforming electricity markets. While previous research has dealt with various aspects of solar prosumage, dedicated analyses of their interactions with the transmission grid under varying tariff designs are sparse. We explore the influence of different pricing regimes ...
In:
Smart Energy
19 (2025), 100193, 11 S.
| Dana Kirchem, Mario Kendziorski, Enno Wiebrow, Wolf-Peter Schill, Claudia Kemfert, Christian von Hirschhausen
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Refereed essays Web of Science
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 ...
In:
Energy Strategy Reviews
60 (2025), 101782, 22 S.
| Leonard Göke, Alexander Wimmers, Christian von Hirschhausen