The aim of this work is to evaluate the impact of domestic and global biofuel policies on Germany's agricultural sector. The central part of our study is divided into four sections. Section 2 presents in detail the issues that make biofuels a debated topic in today's economic policies....

In this paper we investigate how changes in the support scheme may affect electricity generation from agricultural Combined Heat and Power (CHP) biogas plants in Germany. A recursive Multi-Agent System (MAS) for investment decision-making is coupled with GIS data. The spatial-temporal diffusion...

Seit Angela Merkel mit der "Energiewende" den Turbo ein- und die Atomkraftwerke ausschaltete, herrscht in puncto Energieversorgung das blanke Chaos. Das Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz (EEG) soll erst abgeschafft werden, dann wieder doch nicht, Offshore-Windparks werden mit viel Wind gestartet, dann...

We develop a game-theoretic electricity market model that allows analyzing strategic electricity storage in an imperfect market setting. We apply the model to Germany and examine different cases of strategic and non-strategic pumped hydro storage operation. We find that introducing storage...