In this paper a model based analysis of competition in the German wholesale electricity market is presented. Applying a multi-regional model which covers the interregional transmission constraints between Germany and its neighboring countries, potential for exercising market power by the four...

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...

In most industrialized countries electric power tariffs for residentialconsumption are higher than for industrial customers. In Russia, asin some other transition countries, this pattern is reversed, but at thesame time the overall level of tariffs is very low. Cross subsidization ofresidential...

Die kumulative Habilitationsschrift setzt sich aus acht Publikationen und zwei eingereichten Artikeln zusammen, die umweltökonomische und energiewirtschaftliche Forschungsthemen behandeln. Der gemeinsame thematische Hintergrund der Einzelbeiträge besteht in der Analyse von...

Der Erdölhandel wird von der Erschöpfbarkeit, den komplexen Anpassungsprozessen in der Wertschöpfungskette und der Heterogenität von Erdöl bestimmt. Während die ersten beiden Eigenschaften die mittel- und langfristige Entwicklung der Erdölindustrie bestimmen, ist die Heterogenität von...

Vattenfall is a Swedish-owned international electricity and heat supplier. In recent years, it has become the fourth-largest generator of electricity and the largest producer of heat in Europe Vattenfall is a public limited company, shares of which are owned by the Swedish government.