Electricity from solar or wind power is increasingly substituting electricity from conventional coal and gas-fired power plants in Germany. This reduces both emissions and wholesale prices on the energy market. Both effects benefit not only Germany, but – via the transnational electricity market – also its neighbouring countries. However, the costs of promoting renewable energies are mainly borne by German consumers, as they pay the EEG surcharge levied on them. This is the result of a study by ZEW Mannheim and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) based on generation and wholesale market price data for ten Central European countries between 2015 and 2020.
Coronavirus Crisis
Digitalisation
European Integration
Coronavirus Crisis
Digitalisation
European Integration
Events
Lessons from the Sprint/T-Mobile Merger Investigations, Litigation, and Remedy
Speaker: Keith Waehrer
What Kinds of Distributed Generation Technologies Defer Network Expansions? Evidence from France Decarbonization Seminar/Joint Seminar ZEW and MISES
Speaker: Frank A. Wolak (Stanford University, USA and ZEW)
Product Recommendations and Market Concentration
Speaker: Emilio Calvano (Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy)
Knowledge, Education, and Economic Growth Evidence from the Enlightenment in France
Speaker: Uwe Sunde (LMU Munich)
Using Machine Learning and Experimentation for Social Impact
Speaker: Susan Athey (Stanford University, USA)
Executive Directors
Achim Wambach, President
Thomas Kohl, Managing Director
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- conduct politically relevant research and
- provide science-based policy advice.
Introduction to ZEW
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