Improvements in the building stock insulation and the replacement of heating systems will have to take place within the next decades in order to lower heat demand and the associated carbon emissions of the building sector. The current study presents an integrated, iterative modelling approach to...

The ongoing transformation of the European energy system comes along with new challenges, notably increasing amounts of power generation from intermittent sources like wind and solar. How current objectives for emission reduction can be reached in the future and what the future power system will...

With increasing amounts of power generation from intermittent sources like wind, transmission planning has not only to account for the expected load curve but also for the stochasticity of volatile power infeeds. Moreover investments in power generation are no longer centrally planned in...

Power systems with high shares of wind and solar power have to balance their intermittent nature. Pumpedâ€hydro storage plants can provide the required flexibility, while thermal backup plants offer an alternative. This paper proposes a model based on peakâ€loadâ€pricing theory to...

Zusammenfassung Für die umweltorientierte Verflechtungsanalyse wird eine Verdichtung der in Input-Output- Tabellen enthaltenen Informationen gewünscht, wobei die quantitative Bedeutung der Verflechtungen weiter erkennbar sein soll. Dazu wird am Beispiel kumulierter Energieaufwendungen ein...

In this paper, the role of the Internet as an instrument for investor relations activities is addressed. The empirical study compares the Internet investor relations activities of US, UK and German corporations. A sample comprising the respective country's relevant stock market 100 index (S&P,...

<Para ID="Par1">The electricity generation mix of many countries is strongly dominated by fossil fuelled power plants. <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$\hbox {CO}_{2}$$</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"> <math xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <msub> <mtext>CO</mtext> <mn>2</mn> </msub> </math> </EquationSource> </InlineEquation> certificate trading is then advocated as a first best instrument for emission abatement in Europe, the US and beyond. An important element of the trading scheme...</equationsource></equationsource></inlineequation></para>

Distributed Generation (DG) units are said to have the potential to become an integral part of the future power systems. Today, DG units are characterised by high specific investment costs, but nevertheless are politically promoted because of their high degree of energy efficiency and their...