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econ.GN2025★ 1 cited

An advanced reliability reserve incentivizes flexibility investments while safeguarding the electricity market

Franziska Klaucke, Karsten Neuhoff, Alexander Roth +2

To ensure security of supply in the power sector, many countries are already using or discussing the introduction of capacity mechanisms. Two main types of such mechanisms include…

econ.GN2024★ 35 cited

Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It

Eric A. Hanushek, Lavinia Kinne, Frauke Witthoeft +1

Cross-sectional age-skill profiles suggest that workers' cognitive skills start declining by their thirties if not earlier. If accurate, such age-driven skill losses pose a major t…

econ.GN2024★ 9 cited

Impacts of electric carsharing on a power sector with variable renewables

Adeline Guéret, Wolf-Peter Schill, Carlos Gaete-Morales

Electrifying the car fleet is a major strategy for mitigating emissions in the transport sector. As electrification cannot solve all negative externalities associated with cars, re…

econ.GN2024★ 19 cited

Measuring the Dunkelflaute: How (not) to analyze variable renewable energy shortage

Martin Kittel, Wolf-Peter Schill

As variable renewable energy sources increasingly gain importance in global energy systems, there is a growing interest in understanding periods of variable renewable energy shorta…

econ.GN2023★ 34 cited

Power sector benefits of flexible heat pumps

Alexander Roth, Carlos Gaete-Morales, Dana Kirchem +1

Heat pumps play a major role in decreasing fossil fuel use in heating. They increase electricity demand, but could also foster the system integration of variable renewable energy s…

econ.GN2023★ 1 cited

Are high school degrees and university diplomas equally heritable in the US? A new measure of relative intergenerational mobility

Anna Naszodi, Liliana Cuccu

This paper proposes a new measure of relative intergenerational mobility along the educational trait as a proxy of inequality of opportunity. The new measure is more suitable for c…

econ.GN2023★ 9 cited

Power sector effects of alternative options for de-fossilizing heavy-duty vehicles -- go electric, and charge smartly

Carlos Gaete-Morales, Julius Jöhrens, Florian Heining +1

Various options are discussed to de-fossilize heavy-duty vehicles (HDV), including battery-electric vehicles (BEV), electric road systems (ERS), and indirect electrification via hy…

econ.GN2022★ 21 cited

Geographical balancing of wind power decreases storage needs in a 100% renewable European power sector

Alexander Roth, Wolf-Peter Schill

To reduce greenhouse gas emissions, many countries plan to massively expand wind power and solar photovoltaic capacities. These variable renewable energy sources require additional…

econ.GN2022★ 17 cited

Bidirectional coupling of a long-term integrated assessment model REMIND v3.0.0 with an hourly power sector model DIETER v1.0.2

Chen Chris Gong, Falko Ueckerdt, Robert Pietzcker +4

Integrated assessment models (IAMs) are a central tool for the quantitative analysis of climate change mitigation strategies. However, due to their global, cross-sectoral and cente…

econ.GN2022★ 40 cited

Centralized and decentral approaches to succeed the 100% energiewende in Germany in the European context: A model-based analysis of generation, network, and storage investments

Mario Kendziorski, Leonard Göke, Christian von Hirschhausen +2

In this paper, we explore centralized and more decentral approaches to succeed the energiewende in Germany, in the European context. We use the AnyMOD framework to model a future r…

econ.GN2022★ 4 cited

Facebook Shadow Profiles

Luis Aguiar, Christian Peukert, Maximilian Schäfer +1

We quantify Facebook's ability to build shadow profiles by tracking individuals across the web, irrespective of whether they are users of the social network. For a representative s…

econ.GN2021★ 1 cited

Renewable Energy Targets and Unintended Storage Cycling: Implications for Energy Modeling

Martin Kittel, Wolf-Peter Schill

To decarbonize the economy, many governments have set targets for the use of renewable energy sources. These are often formulated as relative shares of electricity demand or supply…

econ.GN2020★ 98 cited

The Economics of Variable Renewables and Electricity Storage

Javier López Prol, Wolf-Peter Schill

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 v…

econ.GN2020★ 44 cited

Degrees of displacement: The impact of household PV battery prosumage on utility generation and storage

Kelvin Say, Wolf-Peter Schill, Michele John

Reductions in the cost of PV and batteries encourage households to invest in PV battery prosumage. We explore the implications for the rest of the power sector by applying two open…

econ.GN2019★ 3 cited

Prosumage of solar electricity: tariff design, capacity investments, and power system effects

Claudia Günther, Wolf-Peter Schill, Alexander Zerrahn

We analyze how tariff design incentivizes households to invest in residential photovoltaic and battery systems, and explore selected power sector effects. To this end, we apply an…