New Working Paper:
Portfolio Effects in Green Hydrogen Production Under Temporal Matching Requirements
By Nieves Casas, Reinhard Madlener, and me
Link to full paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Short summary below 👇

Recent German survey on accepting onshore wind turbines in residential environment:

Without existing turbines (left), the majority has no or small concerns wrt new projects (27 and 41%)

With existing turbines (right), the majority fully or tendentially support them (44 and 36%)

We are offering stipends for a PhD in energy economics ⚡️📈🎓

Beyond 💰, you would benefit from an inspiring environment @WiSoUniCologne and @ewi_koeln and become part of a highly motivated and capable team ☀️🌬️🔋

More info and application by 31 March: www.ewi.uni-koeln.de/en/news/ewi-...

Dynamic electricity tariffs

In Germany, I often hear that, even with smart meters and dynamic tariff offerings in place, not many consumers would choose them.

Norway is an impressive counterexample: >90% of households are on spot tariffs

Interested in externalities of renewable energy?

Check out this (mostly open-access) special issue in Environmental and Resource Economics @SpringerEnviro, edited by @plehmann.bsky.social and Brett Day, to which we had the honor to contribute:

link.springer.com/journal/1064...

Germany keeps falling short of government targets for onshore wind deployment.

But these trends are really promising:

+48% in newly installed capacity
+78% in newly permitted capacity

Quo vadis EU ETS price?

Nice up-to-date synthesis by Pahle et al. from PIK as part of the Ariadne project

https://ariadneprojekt.de/media/2023/12/Ariadne-Documentation_ETSWorkshopBruessel_December2023.pdf

New evidence on "must-run" electricity generation in Germany

When power prices dropped to zero and below for 38 hours in a row at Christmas, 13 GW of controllable generators remained online

(5 bio, 3.4 lignite, 2.8 gas, 1.4 coal, 0.4 oil)

What are the reasons?

The new year begins with a series of conference submission deadlines 🎉🎓

Here is a 🧵 with those related to energy economics and markets 👇

Electric vehicles (EVs) have a dark and a light side for the power sector: they may add harmful volatility and provide valuable flexibility.

How can we adequately capture both in energy system models?

Check out our new publication with @jaruschm.bsky.social on this topic below

Interesting new preprint on

Integrating #DisamenityCosts of #WindEnergy into Energy System Models

by Clemens Lohr and colleagues: researchsquare.com/article/rs-3...

My two take-aways...

China module prices hit record lows, operating rates estimated around 60% www.pv-magazine.com/2023/11/17/c...

Energy transition will require substantially *less* mining than the current fossil system

Yes, we need more metals (copper, nickel...) but this increase is overcompensated by a decrease in coal mining

New research at Joule

Free author link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1h%7EXc925...

Planned vs. optimized electrolyzer locations

This is why we need to split the bidding zone (among other reasons)

Comparing new data by EWI Köln (www.eon.com/de/hydrogen/...) with study by Frederik vom Scheidt et al. (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)

Some EU context for the announced cuts to German industrial electricity tax rate.

Effect will be to shift DE tax rate (c/kWh) from 🔴 to 🔵, closer to many other countries, and at the minimum permitted rate.