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Martin Kittel

Martin Kittel

Ph.D. Student of the

Energy, Transportation, Environment Department

Research Topics and Working Areas
Martin Kittel is a Ph.D. candidate at the DIW Berlin Graduate Center. Prior to DIW, Martin worked as a research associate at the Workgroup for Infrastructure Policy, Technical Institute Berlin and with Germanwatch, a development and environmental civil society organization, focusing on energy transition cooperation in Southeast Europe. He has completed internships at the German-Australian Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Sydney and the European utility Vattenfall, mainly working in the area of electricity market data analysis. Martin holds degrees in Business Management (M.Sc.) and Business Administration and Economics (B.Sc.) from Technical University Dresden, and spent two semesters at Teesside University in the United Kingdom. His Master’s Thesis was devoted to the identification of representative market situation in the European electricity markets for energy system modeling. His current research interests are centered around the decarbonization of European electricity system and variability issues of variable renewable energy sources focussing on variable renewable energy droughts.

Publications

DIW Weekly Report 40/41/42 / 2023

National Hydrogen Strategy: Clear Focus and Consistent Implementation Necessary

2023| Martin Kittel, Dana Kirchem, Wolf-Peter Schill, Claudia Kemfert
DIW Wochenbericht 41 / 2023

Die anvisierten Wasserstoff-Importe sind ambitioniert und sollten rasch gesichert werden: Interview

2023| Martin Kittel, Erich Wittenberg
DIW Wochenbericht 41 / 2023

Nationale Wasserstoffstrategie konsequent und mit klarem Fokus umsetzen

2023| Martin Kittel, Dana Kirchem, Wolf-Peter Schill, Claudia Kemfert
DIW Berlin - Politikberatung kompakt 184 / 2022

Strommarkt erklärt: Preisbildung, Preiskrise und die „Strompreisbremse“: Ein Beitrag zur aktuellen Debatte über Eingriffe in den Strommarkt

2022| Martin Kittel, Alexander Roth, Wolf-Peter Schill
DIW Weekly Report 22/23 / 2022

Expanding Solar Energy Capacity to Power the Transition to Heat Pumps

2022| Alexander Roth, Carlos David Gaete Morales, Adeline Guéret, Dana Kirchem, Martin Kittel, Wolf-Peter Schill
Externe Monographien

Measuring the Dunkelflaute: How (not) to Analyze Variable Renewable Energy Shortage

Ithaca: arXiv.org, 2024, 29 S.
(arXiv ; 402.06758)
| Martin Kittel, Wolf-Peter Schill
Refereed essays Web of Science

Bidirectional Coupling of the Long-term Integrated Assessment Model REgional Model of INvestments and Development (REMIND) v3.0.0 with the Hourly Power Sector Model Dispatch and Investment Evaluation Tool with Endogenous Renewables (DIETER) v1.0.2

In: Geoscientific Model Development 16 (2023), 17, S. 4977–5033 | Chen Chris Gong, Falko Ueckerdt, Robert Pietzcker, Adrian Odenweller, Wolf-Peter Schill, Martin Kittel, Gunnar Luderer
Refereed essays Web of Science

Reducing Energy System Model Distortions from Unintended Storage Cycling through Variable Costs

In: iScience 26 (2023), 1, 105729, 19 S. | Maximilian Parzen, Martin Kittel, Daniel Friedrich, Aristides Kiprakis
Externe Monographien

Verbundvorhaben FlexMex: Modellexperiment zur zeitlich und räumlich hoch aufgelösten Untersuchung des zukünftigen Lastausgleichs im Stromsystem: Schlussbericht

Stuttgart: DLR, 2022, 37 S. | Hans Christian Gils, Hedda Gardian, Martin Kittel, Wolf-Peter Schill, Alexander Musmann, Jann Launer, Felix Gaumnitz, Jonas Ouwerkerk, Christian Bußar, Jennifer Mikurda
Zeitungs- und Blogbeiträge

Strommarkt erklärt: Preisbildung, Preiskrise und die "Strompreisbremse"

In: Heise Online (04.11.2022), [Online-Artikel] | Martin Kittel, Alexander Roth, Wolf-Peter Schill

Lectures

Vortrag

Variable Renewable Energy Droughts in Europe

Martin Kittel
Padua, Italien, 27.06.2023 - 29.06.2023
| 7th International Conference on Energy and Meteorology: ICEM 2023
Vortrag

Variable Renewable Energy Droughts and the Power Sector: A Model-Based Analysis and Implications in the European Context

Martin Kittel
Padua, Italien, 27.06.2023 - 29.06.2023
| 7th International Conference on Energy and Meteorology: ICEM 2023
Vortrag

Introducing a Tool to Evaluate Variable Renewable Energy Droughts

Martin Kittel
Melbourne, Australien [Hybrid], 23.11.2022
| Climate and Energy: Melbourne Climate Futures Academy Seminar Series, University of Melbourne
Vortrag

Wärmepumpen statt Erdgasheizungen: Umstieg durch Ausbau der Solarenergie unterstützen [Online]

Alexander Roth, Carlos Gaete Morales, Adeline Guéret , Dana Kirchem, Martin Kittel, Wolf-Peter Schill
Niedersachsen [Hybrid], 01.10.2022 - 09.10.2022
| Woche der Wärmepumpe
Vortrag

Frequency and Severity of Variable Renewable Energy Droughts

Martin Kittel
Athen, Griechenland, 21.09.2022 - 24.09.2022
| The Future of Global Energy Systems: 17th IAEE European Conference

Research Projects

Research Project

Open-source modeling of the future role of renewable hydrogen in Germany and Europe

Current Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment
Research Project

Future of Fossil Fuels in the wake of greenhouse gas neutrality (FFF)

Completed Project| Energy, Transportation, Environment

In the media

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