Research Fields

Key research areas

  • •   Analysis of market and price developments
  • •   Investment and financing strategies for new energy technologies
  • •   Evaluation of innovative trading products & strategies
  • •   Interdependencies of financial and energy markets
  • •   Sustainable, future-proof market designs
  • •   Business models for the retail market

 

 

Emerging energy research fields

  • • New technologies & system control concepts:

                       - Engineering and Natural Sciences

  • •  New market, business and regulation models

                       - Theoretical First-Best approaches have already been investigated thoroughly in the past

                       -  Practically implementable approaches

                       -  Substantial empirical analyses

  • •  Decision support for companies

                       - Economics, Law, Social Sciences 

                       - Emission taxes or certificate trading with stabilised prices

  • •  Competitive markets for electricity and other commodities with (temporally and/or spatially) varying prices
  • •  Regulation of monopolistic bottlenecks, i.e. energy grid infrastructures