Die Dissertation beleuchtet aus ?konomischer Sicht die Thematik des Klimawandels mit dem Ziel, Ans?tze einer technologischen Kooperation zu identifizieren, die zu einer Verbesserung der Nutzen-Kosten-Relation in internationalen Klimaschutzverhandlungen beitragen k?nnten. Besonderer Wert wird...

As North Carolina regulators begins to recognize the untapped economic, social, and environmental benefits of meeting increased electricity demand through energy efficiency, it has become clear that traditional electricity rate-making creates a disincentive to invest in energy efficiency. To...

Combined heat and power (CHP) is an approach to generating both electricity and usable thermal energy than can offer numerous environmental and economic benefits over more conventional generation methods. Previous research has made clear that the technical potential for additional CHP is huge,...

North Carolina’s demand for electricity will grow at approximately 1.1% annually through 2035. That could mean an additional yearly demand of 39 million megawatt hours (MWh) by 2035, enough to power 2.9 million North Carolina households. If residents paid the current rate for that additional...

For more than 20 years, analysts have reported on the so-called "energy paradox" or the "energy efficiency gap", referring to the fact that economic agents could in principle lower their total cost at current prices by using more energy-efficient technology but, nevertheless, often decide not to...

Due to the growing concerns with climate change and energy supply, Energy Performance Contracting (EPC), which uses the guaranteed future utility savings to repay the initial renovation investments, becomes increasingly popular. However, most Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) set the savings...

This dissertation consists of three independent essays in macroeconomics. The first essay studies the transition to a low carbon economy using an extension of the neoclassical growth model featuring endogenous energy efficiency, exhaustible energy and explicit climate-economy interaction. I...