Heat pumps play an important role in the electrification of the residential sector. The electrification of building energy consumption can have a significant impact on the load management of the electric grid. This study provides the first empirical investigation of the changes in hour-of-day...

The general conditions for local authorities in Germany have changed fundamentally during the last decades. Not only do municipalities compete with each other for employment, prestige and competitive advantages, they also face increasingly higher demands by their citizens, for instance in the...

What do we know about the size of the rebound effect? Should we believe claims that energy efficiency improvements lead to an increase in energy use? This paper clarifies what the rebound effect is, and provides a guide for economists and policymakers interested in its magnitude. We describe how...