Der Jemen ist seit 2014 in einem Bürgerkrieg mit ausländischer militärischer Intervention verwickelt. Im Zuge des Konfliktes wurde die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung von der (zuvor zumindest teilweise vorhandenen) Elektrizitätsversorgung des öffentlichen Netzes abgeschnitten. Alternativlosigkeit...

Yemen has been involved in a civil war with foreign military intervention since 2014. Throughout the conflict, the majority of the population have been cut off from the public electricity grid. However, as alternatives have been unavailable, the country has turned to decentralised solar energy,...

[Introduction] With the goal of limiting the rise in global temperature to two degrees relative to preindustrial levels, the global community agreed to try to halve GHG emissions (vis-à-vis the level in 1990) by 2050. In order to achieve this ambitious target, developed countries ought to...

Der Jemen ist seit 2014 in einem Bürgerkrieg mit ausländischer militärischer Intervention verwickelt. Im Zuge des Konfliktes wurde die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung von der (zuvor zumindest teilweise vorhandenen) Elektrizitätsversorgung des öffentlichen Netzes abgeschnitten. Alternativlosigkeit...

Yemen has been involved in a civil war with foreign military intervention since 2014. Throughout the conflict, the majority of the population have been cut off from the public electricity grid. However, as alternatives have been unavailable, the country has turned to decentralised solar energy,...

The German decision to finally phase-out nuclear electricity has led to a debate on its effects on electricity prices, emission prices in the European emission trading system, as well as on international electricity trade. We investigate these effects with a Electricity market model for Europe...

We use a quantitative electricity market model to analyze the welfare effects of refunding a share of the emission trading proceeds to support renewable energy technologies that are subject to experience effects. We compare effects of supporting renewable energies under both perfect and...

Effects of renewable support legislation on electricity prices have been analyzed with a plethora of models. However, these models neglect at least one of the following aspects which we take into account in our analysis: oligopolistic market behavior of dominant firms, emission trading,...

The increased wind energy supplied to many electricity markets around the world has to be balanced by reliable back upunits or other complementary measures when wind conditions are low. At the same time wind energy impacts both, the utilization of thermal power plants and the market prices....