One of the most pressing public priorities in Germany at present is how to organize the energy transition. However, the cost of stabilizing the financial sector as well as the fiscal pact and the debt brake mean that the government has limited financial resources. Consequently, the availability...

Renewables have become an economically viable alternative to fossil fuels for electricity generation. Managing their intermittency, however, is an information-intensive problem that will require a massive digital transformation of the current electricity system. A comprehensive digital...