This thesis focuses on demand side developments and on the regulated as well as the economic framework conditions those storage technologies have to compete in and draws a clear picture of the economic feasibility of large scale storage options in Central Europe for the coming decades. The...

Economic theory suggests that with a pollution externality and learning spillovers related to renewable energy technologies, the optimal climate policy mix includes an emissions policy and an output subsidy to the learning industry. Instead of output subsidies, feed-in tariffs are often...