In many European countries, natural gas-fired power plants are considered a possibility to quickly compensate the expected shortfall in electric energy supply. Increasing gasfired generation capacity would also increase the couplings and interactions between gas and electricity systems. So far, gas power plants participate in two different markets gas and electricity. Coupling these markets by ...

Energy usage, dependability of energy supply and climate change are important topics in society. Today, a number of trends can be recognized in the electricity consumption and generation. On the one hand, the electricity consumption increases and becomes more žuctuating. is is caused by increasing economic activity and prosperity, but also by a shiŸ towards more electricity supplied devices, fo...

Labor Demand Effects of Rising Electricity Prices: Evidence for Germany Germany plays a pioneering role in replacing conventional power plants with renewable energy sources. While this is beneficial with respect to environmental quality, the energy turnaround implies increasing electricity prices for private households and firms. The extent to which this is associated with negative impacts on e...

Sustaining rapid economic growth and satisfying increasing energy demand while limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is a central challenge in India. Proposed policy solutions should be evaluated according to their impacts on the energy system and the economy to identify efficient policies. I have developed an energy-economic model for India that provides a comprehensive foundation for analyz...

in the sector of electricity production, the existence of investment resources limitation and environmental factors are the main factors that influence this process. the reduction of costs and the destructive impacts of environmental have been always mentioned by specialists. consequently, the drasticality of the environmental protection and the electric-energy production lead to focus on solar...

the experience of countries that have liberalized their electricity markets has shown that the assumption that markets will naturally produce a competitive result is not always justified. the most important concern refers to the changes of demand and price which result in providers’ mistreatment. market power is typically defined as the ability to profitably alter prices away from competitive l...

e electricity supply chain is changing, due to increasing awareness for sustainability and an improved energy e›ciency. e traditional infrastructure where demand is supplied by centralized generation is subject to a transition towards a Smart Grid. In this Smart Grid, sustainable generation from renewable sources is accompanied by controllable distributed generation, distributed storage and dem...

Information systems are going to play a key role in making today’s electricity grids smarter and, in this way, will enable the energy turnaround from fossil to renewable energy sources. One of the approaches to cope with the intermittent feed-in of renewable energy is demand response, i.e. the demand side responds to requirements and price signals from the electricity grid. As yet, the supply s...

Electricity systems are undergoing unprecedented change, with growing capacity for low-carbon generation, and an increasingly distributed approach to network control. Furthermore, the severity of climate related threats is projected to increase. To improve our understanding of the risks from these changes, this paper presents a novel modeling approach to assess the resilience of future electric...