News
New publication on "Architectural change in accelerating transitions"
Together with Allan Dahl Andersen, Jochen Markard and Magnus Korpås, Prof. Dr. Dierk Bauknecht recently published
a new article on "Architectural change in accelerating transitions: Actor preferences, system architectures, and flexibility technologies in the German energy transition".
Read the full article here.
Master thesis at Oeko-Insitut e.V.
The Oeko-Institut is one of Europe’s leading independent research and consultancy organizations working for a sustainable future. Based on value-oriented research, the Oeko-Institut provides consultancy services for decision-makers in politics, industry and civil society. You will support the Energy and Climate department in Freiburg, where our team does research regarding the transformation of the buildings sector towards more energy efficiency and climate neutrality.
About your task:
At Oeko we use a bottom-up stock model for projecting the energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions in the buildings sector. The model is used in several projects for the German Ministries to support policy-making. The aims of your thesis are to
1) develop an approach for regionalising the output data of the model
2) develop a concept for visualisation of these results in QGIS
3) derive recommendations for policy-makers to address regionally different frameworks, challenges and opportunities within the transition of the German buildings sector.
Supervisors: Sibylle Braungardt, Malte Bei der Wieden
About you:
We work in an interdisciplinary team and your motivation and ability to gain and use knowledge quickly and with love for details is more important to us than your scientific background. Nevertheless, experience in the processing of spatial data is required for the task (e.g. with QGIS).
Next steps:
Please write a short email where you explain why you are motivated and qualified for the task attaching your CV until 1st March 2023. Contact: m.beiderwieden@oeko.de
Master thesis in the ENSURE project at the Öko-Institut e.V.
As part of the project ENSURE - Neue EnergieNetzsStruktURen für die Energiewende, a master thesis can be written at the Öko-Institut.
Topic: Regulation of Innovation and Transformation in Power and Energy Networks
- Which concepts for the regulation and governance of energy network are there to enable innovation and transformation as well as infrastructure development across networks?
- Which approaches have been implemented internationally, how has this been done?
- What are practical experiences and effects of these approaches?
Conditions
- Start: May-June 2023
- 6 month student job at Öko-Institut e.V., 19,5 hours per week, 14 EUR per hour
- Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dierk Bauknecht
- Further supervision by colleagues working on the project
About Öko-Institut e.V.
Öko-Institut is one of Europe's leading independent research organizations working for a sustainable future. Öko-Institut advises decision-makers in policy, business and civil society. You will support the Energy and Climate Protection department in Freiburg, where our team conducts research on the transformation of the electricity sector.
About you
We work in an interdisciplinary team and your motivation and ability to acquire and apply knowledge quickly and with attention to detail is more important to us than your scientific background. Experience with power grids and their regulation is an advantage.
Next steps
Please send us a brief email by 2 May 2023 explaining why you are motivated and qualified for the role and attach your resume.
Contact: m.vogel@oeko.de
New project on "Whole System Approach: Adaptation of Incentive Regulation to Improve Whole System Optimization"
Together with the Constructor University Bremen / Bremen Energy Research and the Öko-Institut, we are working on this project funded by the Stiftung Energieforschung Baden-Württemberg.
In the transformation of the energy system, numerous coordination problems arise between different actors. The central goal of the project is the development of adaptation options for the incentive regulation of the grid operators in order to solve coordination problems by considering the whole system approach. The starting point are concrete use cases relevant to practice. These cases characterize a coordination problem between two or more actors, e.g. the coordination of network expansion between gas and electricity network operators.
Working Paper: System Building: Towards a Conceptualisation of the Third Phase of Transitions
A new working paper by Sarah Olbrich and Dierk Bauknecht explores System Building and the Third Phase of Transitions.
Sustainability transitions occur in different phases: first, the emergence of new innovations, second, the acceleration of innovations, and third, the stabilisation of a new regime. While the processes of the first and second phase are well-described, comparatively little attention has been paid to the third phase. With the help of a literature review building on theories of socio-technical transitions as well as insights from the energy transition case in Germany, this paper introduces system building as a concept that accounts for the characteristics and challenges in the third phase. System building does not merely take place in the niche sphere, but asks for restructuring dynamics in the existing regime as well. It involves the institutionalisation of innovations, the alignment of old and new system elements as well as an interaction between old and new regime actors.