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Diskussionspapiere 1406 / 2014
Biochar is a carbon-rich solid obtained from the heating of biomass in the (near) absence of oxygen in a process called pyrolysis. Its deployment in soils is increasingly discussed as a promising means to sequester carbon in soils and, thus, to help mitigate climate change. For a wide range of feedstocks and scenarios and against the baseline of conventional feedstock management, we calculate the technical ...
2014| Isabel Teichmann
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DIW Economic Bulletin 8 / 2014
In January 2014, the European Commission proposed a framework for its climate and energy policy up to 2030. It includes targets for reducing greenhouse gases and using renewable energies, but no specific targets for increasing energy efficiency. By 2030, greenhouse gas emissions are to be reduced by 40 percent over 1990 figures. Another element of the proposal is the introduction of a market stability ...
2014| Claudia Kemfert, Christian von Hirschhausen, Casimir Lorenz
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Diskussionspapiere 1404 / 2014
Despite the ongoing appetite of financial investors for merchant investments into the European electricity network, the EC is reluctant to approve such undertakings, thus implicitly favoring regulated investments. Based on a two-level model, we analyze the impact of profit-maximizing merchant transmission investment as compared to welfare-maximizing regulated transmission investment. We apply the model ...
2014| Clemens Gerbaulet, Alexander Weber
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Externe Monographien
To assess how capital stocks adapt to energy price changes, it is necessary to account for the impacts on different vintages of capital and to account separately for price-induced and autonomous improvements in the energy efficiency of capital stock. The results of econometric analysis for five manufacturing industries in 19 OECD countries between 1990 and 2005 indicate that higher energy prices resulted ...
Washington, DC:
World Bank,
2014,
55 S.
(Policy Research Working Paper ; 6929)
| Jevgenijs Steinbuks, Karsten Neuhoff
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Weitere externe Aufsätze
We analyze optimal infrastructure investments for the integration of variable renewables in the German electricity system. Using a combined dispatch, transmission, and investment model, we compare four scenarios with different investment options, including gas-fired power plants, pumped hydro storage and transmission lines. In a reference scenario of the year 2024, geographically optimized investments ...
In:
11th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM)
Krakow : IEEE
7 S.
| Jonas Egerer, Wolf-Peter Schill
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DIW Wochenbericht 9 / 1994
Unter den traditionellen Zielen der Energiepolitik - Versorgungssicherheit, Wirtschaftlichkeit und Umweltverträglichkeit- haben die Umweltziele in den vergangenen Jahren mehr und mehr an Bedeutung gewonnen. Insbesondere dem Aspekt einer klimaverträglichen Energieversorgung wird verstärkte Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt. Erklärtes Ziel der Bundesregierung ist es, die Emissionen des Treibhausgases Kohlendioxid ...
1994| Hans-Joachim Ziesing
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Diskussionspapiere 1410 / 2014
The energy efficiency of the residential housing stock plays a key role in strategies to mitigate climate change and global warming. In this context, it is frequently argued that private investment and the quality of thermal upgrades is too low in the light of the challenges faced and the potential energy cost savings. While many authors address the potential barriers for investors to increase energy ...
2014| Claus Michelsen, Sebastian Rosenschon, Christian Schulz
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Weitere externe Aufsätze
For the future development of the European electricity system, renewable generation is assigned a dominant role with the underlying aim to reduce the carbon intensity. This has direct implications for conventional, dispatchable generation capacities and their future development. The objective of this paper is to investigate the investments in conventional generation technologies for a given renewable ...
In:
11th International Conference on the Europan Energy Market (EEM), 2014
Krakow : IEEE
7 S.
| Clemens Gerbaulet, Friedrich Kunz, Casimir Lorenz, Christian von Hirschhausen, Benjamin Reinhard
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Diskussionspapiere 1418 / 2014
A shift from zonal pricing to smaller zones and nodal pricing improves efficiency and security of system operation. Resulting price changes do however also shift profits and surplus between and across generation and load. As individual actorscan lose, they might oppose any reform. We explore how free allocation of financial transmission rights to generation and load can be used to mitigate the distributional ...
2014| Friedrich Kunz, Karsten Neuhoff, Juan Rosellón
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DIW Wochenbericht 27 / 2014
Damit die Europäische Union ihre selbstgesteckten Energie- und Klimaziele erreichen kann, sind umfangreiche Investitionen in die Stromerzeugung, die Strom- und Erdgasinfrastruktur sowie in die Energieeffizienz notwendig. Eine zentrale Bedeutung kommt dabei dem Stromsektor zu. Dieser DIW Wochenbericht liefert einen Überblick über verschiedene Kostenschätzungen des Investitionsbedarfs im Energiesektor ...
2014| Christian von Hirschhausen, Franziska Holz, Clemens Gerbaulet, Casimir Lorenz