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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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Externe Monographien
We study the impact of fossil fuel subsidy removal on presidential popularity using difference-indifference approaches and a stylized theoretical model. Analyzing macro level data for two subsidy removal events in Mexico and Bolivia in the early 2010s, we find evidence of a negative impact on presidential approval. Our theoretical probabilistic voting model predicts that the decline in popularity is ...
Washington D.C.:
IMF,
2024,
49 S.
(IMF Working Paper ; 24/230)
| Mariza Montes de Oca Léon, Achim Hagen, Franziska Holz
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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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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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Refereed essays Web of Science
The present study conducts a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to evaluate the environmental impacts of heating technologies commonly used in Chile based on six environmental indicators: Climate Change (CC), Human Toxicity (HT), Formation of Particulate Matter (PM), Formation of Photochemical Oxidants (PO), Ozone Destruction (OD), and Water Depletion (WD). Due to the extensive length of the territory studied, ...
In:
Cleaner Environmental Systems
13 (2024), 100192, 13 S.
| Adrián-Enrique Ortiz-Rojas, Ismaela Magliotto-Quevedo, Leonardo Guerra, Carlos Gaete-Morales, Paula Guerra, Camila Mery-Araya
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Externe Monographien
Whether or not Germany can be carbon-neutral by 2045 will also depend on whether hydrogen can be successfully utilised. The ramp-up of a green hydrogen economy which includes a substantial, industrial-scale supply of hydrogen by 2030 is an ambitious goal. The strong rise in the demand for green hydrogen and its synthesis products by industry (e.g. steel, chemical and glass industries), transport (shipping, ...
München:
acatech,
2024,
134 S.
(Series on Energy Systems of the Future)
| Frithjof Staiß, Jörg Adolf, Florian Ausfelder, Christoph Erdmann, Manfred Fischedick, Christopher Hebling, Thomas Jordan, Gernot Klepper, Thorsten Müller, Regina Palkovits, Witold-Roger Poganietz, Wolf-Peter Schill, Maike Schmidt, Cyril Stephanos, Philipp Stöcker, Ulrich Wagner, Kirsten Westphal, Sven Wurbs
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, established in 2015, aim to achieve global sustainability by 2030 through the improvement of environmental, social, and economic parameters. However, unlike earlier concepts such as the Agenda 21 of 1992, the SDGs overlook radioactive waste management and related challenges of radiation itself. First, we investigate the historic consideration ...
In:
Radiation and Environmental Biophysics
63 (2024), S. 519–536
| Alexander Wimmers, Fanny Böse, Jasmin Beppler, Pauline Morawe, Maximilian Weber, Christian von Hirschhausen
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As variable renewable energy (VRE) sources increasingly gain importance in global energy systems, there is a growing interest in understanding periods of VRE shortage ('Dunkelflauten'). Defining, quantifying, and comparing such shortage events across different renewable generation technologies and locations presents a surprisingly intricate challenge. Various methodological approaches exist in different ...
In:
Environmental Research: Energy
1 (2024), 035007, 18 S.
| Martin Kittel, Wolf-Peter Schill
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Climate policy will inevitably lead to the stranding of fossil energy assets such as production and transport assets for coal, oil, and natural gas. Resource-rich developing countries are particularly affected, as they have a higher risk of asset stranding due to strong fossil dependencies and wider societal consequences beyond revenue disruption. However, there is only little academic and political ...
In:
Frontiers in Environmental Economics
3 (2024), 1273315, 18 S.
| Franziska M. Hoffart, Franziska Holz