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Refereed essays Web of Science
While countries increasingly commit to pricing greenhouse gases directly through carbon taxes or emissions trading systems, indirect forms of carbon pricing-such as fuel excise taxes and fuel subsidy reforms-remain important factors affecting the mitigation incentives in an economy. Taken together, how can policy makers think about the overall price signal for carbon emissions and the incentive it ...
In:
The World Bank Research Observer
(2024) im Ersch. [Online first: 2023-10-06]
| Paolo Agnolucci, Carolyn Fischer, Dirk Heine, Mariza Montes de Oca Leon, Joseph Pryor, Kathleen Patroni, Stéphane Hallegatte
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Refereed essays Web of Science
In:
European Journal of Operational Research
(2024), im Ersch. [online first: 2024-01-15]
| Leonard Göke, Felix Schmidt, Mario Kendziorski
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Conventional wastewater treatment plants consume significant amounts of electricity. The constant aeration of the wastewater in order to foster the growth of microorganisms or the pumping of wastewater are two examples for energy-intensive processes within a plant. Case studies have shown that switching off blowers and inlet pumps for a certain period of time is possible without a loss in water quality. ...
In:
Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering
12 (2024), 1, 111717
| Dana Kirchem, Matteo Giberti, Recep Kaan Dereli, Juha Kiviluoma, Muireann Á. Lynch, Eoin Casey
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Externe Monographien
As variable renewable energy sources increasingly gain importance in global energy systems, there is a growing interest in understanding periods of variable renewable energy shortage (``Dunkelflauten''). Defining, quantifying, and comparing such shortage events across different renewable generation technologies and locations presents a surprisingly intricate challenge. Various approaches exist in different ...
Ithaca:
arXiv.org,
2024,
29 S.
(arXiv ; 402.06758)
| Martin Kittel, Wolf-Peter Schill
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DIW Weekly Report 4/5 / 2024
The energy transition is a major challenge for both Germany and France. This Weekly Report provides an overview of the short- and long-term goals as well as current developments and trends in France’s energy and climate policy. It reveals that France is largely on track with its greenhouse gases targets and is also making good progress on installing heat pumps. However, its expansion of renewable energy ...
2024| Adeline Guéret, Wolf-Peter Schill
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Navigating the transition toward a zero-emission and just future amidst multiple crises requires a nuanced understanding of potential hindrances to investments and energy transitions. As current approaches hardly consider the big picture of interacting crises, this study offers a framework to analyze the dynamics and risk channels between 1) the climate crisis, 2) financial (in)stability, 3) the geopolitical ...
In:
Applied Energy
361 (2024), 122885, 11 S.
| Franziska M. Hoffart, Paola D'Orazio, Franziska Holz, Claudia Kemfert
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DIW focus
December 13, 2023 – The German traffic light coalition began its term two years ago with ambitious energy policy goals. Halfway through the legislative period, its track record is mixed. Good progress has been made in some areas, but in others a large gap between targets and the status quo remains. The Ampel-Monitor Energiewende by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) shows...
14.12.2023| Adeline Gueret, Alexander Roth, Wolf-Peter Schill, Felix Schmidt
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Refereed essays Web of Science
I examine the Coasean independence property in a large multinational cap-and-trade scheme for greenhouse gas emissions, the EU Emissions Trading System. I analyze whether emissions of power producers are independent from allowance allocations by leveraging a change in allocation policy for a difference-in-differences strategy. The evidence suggests that the independence property holds overall and for ...
In:
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
15 (2023), 2. S. S. 526-558
| Aleksandar Zaklan
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Refereed essays Web of Science
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. ...
In:
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
10 (2023), 3, S. 819-863
| Fabian Stöckl, Alexander Zerrahn
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Diskussionspapiere 2054 / 2023
While wind power is considered key in the transition towards net zero, there are concerns about adverse health impacts on nearby residents. Based on precise geographical coordinates, we link a representative longitudinal household panel to all wind turbines in Germany and exploit their staggered rollout over two decades for identification. We do not find evidence of negative effects on general, mental, ...
2023| Christian Krekel, Johannes Rode, Alexander Roth