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Welfare effects of technology-based climate policies in liberalized electricity markets: seeing beyond total system cost

Philippe Thalmann, Frank Vöhringer, Sophie Maire

This paper is a contribution to assessing the Swiss energy transition, with an emphasis on the consequences of decommissioning the nuclear power plants for the electricity market and the whole economy. We expect that increased renewable generation and dema ...

2019

Torn between international competition and municipal claims: Analysing key influence factors on municipal utilities’ business strategies in the German and Swiss energy transition

Susan Marie Mühlemeier

After the nuclear accident in Fukushima, amongst others Germany and Switzerland decided to accelerate the sustainability transition of their energy systems not only by expanding the share of renewables actively but also by quitting nuclear power. Regarding ...

2017

Coupled energy economic model framework for analyzing Swiss electricity markets in changing policy environments

Sophie Maire

Energy policy needs to rely on the proper understanding of the interactions between policy instruments, consumer preferences, investment behavior, market structure, electricity supply, and the wider policy environment. This asks for appropriate modeling to ...

EPFL2016

Linking electricity prices and costs in bottom-up top-down coupling under changing market environments

Sophie Maire

Electricity market liberalization is altering pricing mechanisms in wholesale electricity markets, which will affect the effectiveness of climate and energy policies. Models used to simulate such policies must be responsive to pricing rules. We show how th ...

2016

Linking electricity prices and costs in bottom-up top-down coupling under changing market environments

Philippe Thalmann, Frank Vöhringer, Sophie Maire

We couple top-down and bottom-up models to analyse electricity markets. We simulate energy policies under alternative regulatory assumptions. We shows that market liberalisation affects the links between generation costs and user prices. We show that the c ...

EPFL LEURE2015

Linking electricity prices and costs in bottom-up top-down coupling under changing market environments

Frank Vöhringer, Sophie Maire

Energy market liberalization is changing pricing mechanisms for wholesale electricity. This work shows that it is essential to appreciate and mirror these changes in the modeling of electricity markets for policy assessment. We develop a framework composed ...

2014

Linking electricity prices and costs in bottom-up top-down coupling under changing market environments

Frank Vöhringer, Sophie Maire

For some time, regulatory reforms in Europe have aimed at electricity market liberalisation. One of the many consequences is that increasingly spot market transactions replace long- term contracts, thus redefining the way wholesale electricity prices are f ...

2014

Liberalisation, competition and innovation in the postal sector

Cátia Alexandra Pereira Felisberto

This paper empirically assesses the effect of liberalisation and competition on innovation in the postal sector. The analysis is restricted to end-to-end competition. The effect on the incentives to innovate of letter volume, public ownership and other con ...

Springer-Verlag2013

Building a new coupled techno-economic model framework for analyzing internationally integrated electricity markets

Sophie Maire

The Swiss Energy Strategy 2050 pursues an ambitious transition to a more renew- able and efficient energy future, combining CO2 and energy saving targets with a phase-out of nuclear electricity generation. This transition poses challenges not only for the ...

2013

Transformation of Water Governance and Legitimacy

Eva Lieberherr

The public sector in Western Europe has experienced a shift from state-centric public governance to private and public-private governance since the end of the twentieth century. Debates in the political sciences have focused on whether a „higher‟ level of ...

EPFL2012

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