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DIW Weekly Report 5 / 2023
In 2021, the G7 and South Africa agreed upon the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP). This new instrument in international cooperation should support emerging and developing economies in a just energy transition and in phasing out coal. It is intended to facilitate equal partnerships between donors and recipients, thereby also facilitating the energy transition. An evaluation of the South African ...
2023| Heiner von Lüpke, Charlotte Aebischer, Martha Bolaños
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Data Documentation 104 / 2023
2023| Alexander Wimmers, Rebekka Bärenbold, Muhammad Maladoh Bah, Rebecca Lordan-Perret, Björn Steigerwald, Christian von Hirschhausen, Hannes Weigt, Ben Wealer
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Energy system models are used for policy decisions and technology designs. If not carefully used, models give implausible outputs and mislead decision-making. One implausible effect is “unintended storage cycling”, which is observable as simultaneous storage charging and discharging. Methods to remove such misleading effects exist, but are computationally inefficient and sometimes ineffective. Through ...
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iScience
26 (2023), 1, 105729, 19 S.
| Maximilian Parzen, Martin Kittel, Daniel Friedrich, Aristides Kiprakis
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DIW Berlin - Politikberatung kompakt 187 / 2023
2023| Lars Handrich, Nadiya Mankovska, Frank Meißner, Maria Polugodina, Oleksandr Diachuk, Roman Podolets, Andrii Semeniuk, Andrea Bassi, Georg Pallaske
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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. ...
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Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
10 (2023), 3, S. 819-863
| Fabian Stöckl, Alexander Zerrahn
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DIW Weekly Report 38/39 / 2023
The sharp rise in electricity prices has led to a discussion on possible subsidies for companies in the form of an industrial power tariff. The subsidies should help companies remain internationally competitive and prevent them from relocating overseas. Although German electricity prices for (industrial) firms are around the European average due to many tax exemptions, they are significantly higher ...
2023| Lea Bernhardt, Tomaso Duso, Robin Sogalla, Alexander Schiersch
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DIW Weekly Report 34/35 / 2023
Reducing carbon emissions is essential to meeting climate targets. What is unclear, however, is which measures are required to do so and what impact they would have on economic growth. In this Weekly Report, a macroeconomic model is used to observe four scenarios in comparison to a baseline scenario without emissions reduction. It is analyzed which effects different measures, such as technological ...
2023| Timm Bönke, Geraldine Dany-Knedlik, Werner Roeger
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The future of coal remains contested in many countries, hindering necessary energy transitions. Collaborative governance approaches, such as stakeholder commissions, have been proposed as potential solution to resolve such societal conflicts. In Germany, a stakeholder commission process managed to overcome the existing stalemate situation, leading to the adoption of a coal phase-out by 2038. Celebrated ...
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Energy Research & Social Science
103 (2023), 103203, 16 S.
| Christian Hauenstein, Isabell Braunger, Alexandra Krumm, Pao-Yu Oei
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Die Atomenergie bleibt gesellschaftlich umkämpft. Zum einen wird sie wieder als Zukunftstechnologie gehandelt, mit der vermeintlich klimafreundlich und ressourcenschonend Strom erzeugt werden kann. Zum anderen ist die Endlagerung von Atomabfällen noch nicht geregelt. Das Konzept der ,,atompolitischen Wende“ bringt ‐ analog zur Energiewende ‐ dieses Ringen auf den Punkt. Die Beendigung der kommerziellen ...
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Gaia
31 (2023), 1, S. 86-90
| Fabian Präger, Achim Brunnengräber, Christian von Hirschhausen
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Predicting future costs of technologies not yet developed is a complex exercise that includes many uncertain parameters and functional forms. In that context, small modular reactor (SMR) concepts that are in a rather early development stage claim to have cost advantages through learning effects, standardized design, modularization, co-siting economies, and other factors, such as better time-to-market ...
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Energy
281 (2023), 128204, 17 S.
| Björn Steigerwald, Jens Weibezahn, Martin Slowik, Christian von Hirschhausen