The modelling of energy systems, which coevolved from socio-technological interactions and their interplay with the economy, plays a key role in the development of national and international policies to solve the problem of energy poverty. The other important issues addressed by energy system...

This volume was prepared by Luise Röpke while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes three self-contained chapters about aspects of the integration of new...