The future evolution of energy demand in cities has a major influence on energy market size, pricing, competition level, consumer relations, overall CO2 emissions, and supply security. This paper presents a bounded rational decision model which can be used to estimate this evolution. It starts...

The systems which provide active and passive energy-services are undergoing rapid institutional, commercial, and technical change. As part of this transformation, distributed energy technologies are expected to play a greater role. In addition, governments and local authorities are seeking to...

Scarce interconnector capacities are a severe obstacle to transregional competition and a unified market for electricity in the European Union. However, physically the interconnectors are rarely used up to capacity. This is due to the fact that the current allocation schemes make only limited...

Scarce interconnector capacities are a severe obstacle to transregional competition and a unified market for electricity in the European Union. However, physically the interconnectors are rarely used up to capacity. This is due to the fact that the current allocation schemes make only limited...

Scarce interconnector capacities are a severe obstacle to transregional competition and a unified market for electricity in the European Union. However, physically the interconnectors are rarely used up to capacity. This is due to the fact that the current allocation schemes make only limited...

This paper investigates market-based decarbonization, driven by carbon pricing, and under different regulatory settings. These consist of a conventional energy-only market (EOM), an EOM with operating reserve demand curve (ORDC) and a capacity market (CM). We find that contrary to previous...

Climate change is a long-term issue due to the long lifespan of greenhouse gases and the delayed response of the climate system. This paper investigates the long-term economic consequences of both climate change impacts and mitigation efforts by applying the multiregional, multi-sectoral...

[Fazit:] In dem Bericht wurden die Ergebnisse einer schriftlichen Haushaltsbefragung vorgestellt, die in der Großen Kreisstadt Delitzsch – stellvertretend für kleine und mittlere Kommunen mit deutlichen demographischen Veränderungen – im Frühjahr 2010 durchgeführt wurde. Diese richtete...

Against the background of the energy transition accompanied by a rising penetration of renewable energy (REN) sources and a stepwise phase out of conventional power plants in order to fulfill climate protection targets, the requirements for a reliable transmission grid infrastructure increased...