Increasing the use of heat pumps is an important measure for reducing carbon emissions in the heating sector as well as natural gas imports. This report uses an electricity sector model to investigate the effects of an accelerated expansion of the heat pump stock on the German electricity sector...

Die verstärkte Nutzung von Wärmepumpen ist eine wichtige Maßnahme zur Senkung der CO2-Emissionen im Wärmesektor. Zudem können Wärmepumpen dazu beitragen, die Importe von Erdgas zu reduzieren. Mit Hilfe eines Stromsektormodells werden die Auswirkungen eines beschleunigten Ausbaus von...

Common intuition holds that retail real-time pricing (RTP) of electricity demand should become more beneficial in markets with high variable renewable energy (VRE) supply mainly due to increased price volatility. Using German market data, we test this intuition by simulating long-run electricity...

We analyze future scenarios of integrating electric vehicles (EV) into the German power system, drawing on different assumptions on the charging mode. We use a numerical dispatch model with a unit-commitment formulation which minimizes dispatch costs over a full year. While the overall energy...

The transformation of the electricity sector is a main element of the transition to a decarbonized economy. Conventional generators powered by fossil fuels have to be replaced by variable renewable energy (VRE) sources in combination with electricity storage and other options for providing...

The so-called traffic light coalition is facing a challenge: it has set ambitious energy policy targets, but can only achieve them if the pace of the energy transition is increased significantly. To contribute to the current energy policy debate, the Ampel-Monitor Energiewende (Monitor of the...

Die Ampel-Koalition hatte sich vorgenommen, die Energiewende deutlich zu beschleunigen. Auf Basis der Daten des Ampel-Monitors Energiewende des DIW Berlin werden in diesem Bericht die Entwicklungen wichtiger Schlüsseltechnologien analysiert und eine Bilanz der Energiewendepolitik gezogen. Die...