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Other refereed essays
Electrifying the car fleet is a major strategy for mitigating emissions in the transport sector. As electrification cannot solve all negative externalities associated with cars, reducing the size of the car fleet would be beneficial. Electric carsharing could reconcile current car usage habits with a smaller fleet, but this may reduce the potential of electric cars to align their grid interactions ...
In:
Cell Reports Sustainability
1 (2024), 6, 100241, 13 S.
| Adeline Guéret, Wolf-Peter Schill, Carlos Gaete-Morales
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Heat pumps play a major role in decreasing fossil fuel use in heating. They increase electricity demand, but could also foster the system integration of variable renewable energy sources. We analyze three scenarios for expanding decentralized heat pumps in Germany by 2030, focusing on the role of buffer heat storage. Using an open-source power sector model, we assess costs, capacity investments, and ...
In:
Communications Earth & Environment
5 (2024), 718, 12 S.
| Alexander Roth, Carlos Gaete-Morales, Dana Kirchem, Wolf-Peter Schill
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Other refereed essays
The German “traffic light” (Ampel) coalition has set ambitious new energy transition targets. Using an open data tool developed at DIW Berlin, we discuss the progress and challenges of selected indicators. Since the government took over, photovoltaic capacity increased by 45 % to 87 GW by April 2024, with a planned doubling by 2030. However, onshore wind power grew by only 11 % to 62 GW. The installation ...
In:
Wirtschaftsdienst
104 (2024), 6, S. 427–430
| Wolf-Peter Schill, Alexander Roth, Adeline Guéret, Felix Schmidt
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DIW Weekly Report 19/20 / 2024
The pace of thermal retrofit of buildings in Germany remains slow. A Worst-First approach, prioritizing the retrofit of inefficient buildings, would address energy- and social policy objectives and deliver economic and climate benefits. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) show how such an approach would protect especially low-income households often living in very inefficient buildings ...
2024| Sophie M. Behr, Merve Kücük, Maximilian Longmuir, Karsten Neuhoff
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Shared pooled mobility has been hailed as a sustainable mobility solution that uses digital innovation to efficiently bundle rides. Multiple disciplines have started investigating and analyzing shared pooled mobility systems. However, there is a lack of cross-community communication making it hard to build upon knowledge from other fields or know which open questions may be of interest to other fields. ...
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Environmental Research Letters
19 (2024), 5, 053004, 20 S.
| Felix Creutzig, Alexander Schmaus, Eva Ayaragarnchanakul, Sophia Becker, Giacomo Falchetta, Jiawei Hu, Mirko Goletz, Adeline Guéret, Kai Nagel, Jonas Schild, Wolf-Peter Schill, Tilmann Schlenther, Nora Molkenthin
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Although maritime cabotage emits comparatively less CO2 per tonne kilometre than other means of transportation, the potential contribution of Brazil’s cabotage policy toward tackling climate change remained largely unexplored throughout its legislative process. Hence, to gather insights into how climate change can be integrated into sectoral policies, we apply Kingdon’s Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) ...
In:
Case Studies on Transport Policy
16 (2024), 101183, 8 S.
| Camila Yamahaki, Gustavo Velloso Breviglieri, Heiner von Lüpke
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Driven by the motivation to raise the ambition level of climate action and to foster the transformation of economies, current climate policy discourse revolves around ways to improve cooperation between industrialized countries and emerging economies. We identify three broad types of initiatives—multilateral-cross sectoral, multilateral, sector specific, and climate and development partnerships—and ...
In:
International Environmental Agreements
24 (2024), S. 289–308
| Heiner von Luepke, Karsten Neuhoff, Catherine Marchewitz
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Externe Monographien
Diese Dissertation behandelt die Herausforderungen der Dekarbonisierung im Energiesektor aus verschiedenen Perspektiven mit unterschiedlichen Methoden. Kapitel 1 liefert Hintergrund und Motivation. Kapitel 2 analysiert die Beziehung zwischen geografischer und zeitlicher Flexibilität im Strommarkt in einem Szenario mit 100% erneuerbaren Energien in zwölf mitteleuropäischen Ländern. Unter Anwendung eines ...
Berlin:
Technische Universität Berlin,
2024,
XIX, 195 S.
| Alexander Roth
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Diskussionspapiere 2082 / 2024
The transition of the steel sector to carbon neutrality requires significant investment. In this study, we aim to better understand the scale of investment required for a transition to hydrogen-based steelmaking and the ability of listed steelmakers to finance this investment. First, we analyze how capital expenditures are estimated in the academic literature and compare them with reported investment ...
2024| Alexandra Hüttel, Judith Lehner
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DIW Weekly Report 13/14 / 2024
Large parts of the existing natural gas distribution networks must be decommissioned due to the decarbonization of the heat supply. However, there are neither regulatory nor economic incentives for the gas network operators to do so and delaying the decommissioning could be expensive for the remaining customers. This Weekly Report analyzes to what extent municipalities can partially decommission the ...
2024| Isabell Braunger, Philipp Herpich, Franziska Holz, Julia Rechlitz, Claudia Kemfert