Compatibility of Nuclear and Renewables

Hydrogenation of Renewables

Hydrogenation reactions have a variety of applications in the chemical industry which is shown by the corresponding products, such as ammonia, methanol, and polyamides. In petrochemistry, the addition of hydrogen is used to adjust properties of product mixtures, e.g. in the hydrocracking or hydrotreating. For renewables the same is already feasible or first proofs of concept were already shown....

Nuclear Energy and Renewables: System Effects in Low-carbon Electricity Systems

Renewables price brake

The Federal ministers for the environment and for economic affairs’ suggestions for a renewables price brake must be seen in the light of upcoming elections. Any change of law would have to pass the Federal Council and, therefore, political opposition. So it is unlikely the effects of their proposed measures will be as great as some fear. However, the proposal has started a debate about possibi...

Transmission Constraints, Intermittent Renewables and Welfare

This paper extends the transmission framework from Joskow and Tirole (2005) to show how intermittent renewable capacity increases interact with transmission constraints both theoretically and empirically. The main prediction of the model is that transmission congestion leads to mitigated benefits from renewables due to lack of electricity to be traded to high priced market settlement points. We...

Energy in buildings: Efficiency, renewables and storage

— This lecture summary provides a short but comprehensive overview on the “energy and buildings” topic. Buildings account for roughly 40% of the global energy demands. Thus, an increased adoption of existing and upcoming materials and solutions for the building sector represents an enormous potential to reduce building related energy demands and greenhouse gas emissions. The central question is...