Content
- Energy technology driven changes in energy production/supply strategies and in energy trade
(domestic / international) over the past decade.
- The impact of technological changes and uncertainties on energy resource and resource-utilizing
industries development path and substitutability
- How economic / financial / operational / technical considerations define new technology projects,
especially their scale
- New Technologies at Glance:
- Prosumers, Digitization, Sector coupling (Power + Heat)
- Hydrogen & Ammonia (trade, production, utilization)
- Alternative (H2 and battery-based) Mobility
- Smart City: a nexus of technologies (coordination vs. competition of technologies)
- Unconventional Resources (technology that changed resource endowment, supply capabilities,
and energy costs)
Learning outcomes
After attending this seminar students will be able to:
1. Introduce and provide the understanding of the novel energy-related technologies;
2. Explain the role of technologies and technology-related uncertainties in energy and associated
industries and markets;
3. Enhance their ability to conduct sound and independent research in the area of energy markets.
To fulfill these goals, students have to develop a well-structured research agenda and prove their
ability to present their findings in written and oral form.
Examination
The final examination consist of a seminar paper and an oral in-class presentation. Students are
to investigate various energy technologies, their economics and market implications. The seminar
paper constitutes the final grade. The final presentation offers the opportunity to improve the grade
of the paper.
Teaching & learning methods
Seminar meetings in block with discussions of research topics/questions
Media & reading list
Power Point, Zoom
1. Prosumers, digitalization, sector coupling
a. Decentralised Energy a Global Game Changer, book by Christoph Burger, Antony Froggatt,
Catherine Mitchell, Jens Weinmann
b. Espe, E., Potdar, V., & Chang, E., 2018, Prosumer Communities and Relationships in Smart
Grids: A Literature Review, Evolution and Future Directions. Energies, 11(10).
c. Frattini, F., Bianchi, M., De Massis, A., & Sikimic, U. (2013). The Role of Early Adopters in the
Diffusion of New Products: Differences between Platform and Nonplatform Innovations. Journal of
Product Innovation Management, 31(3), 466–488.
d. Lüth, A., Zepter, J. M., Crespo del Granado, P., & Egging, R. (2018). Local electricity market
designs for peer-to-peer trading: The role of battery flexibility. Applied Energy, 229, 1233–1243.
2. Hydrogen
a. Hydrogen production, edt. by Muhammet Kayfecia, Ali Kec¸ebaşb, Mutlucan Bayatc
b. Abhinav Bhaskar & Mohsen Assadi & Homam Nikpey Somehsaraei, 2020, Decarbonization
of the Iron and Steel Industry with Direct Reduction of Iron Ore with Green Hydrogen, Energies
Journal, vol. 13(3), pages 1-23, February.
c. Mark Ruth, Melissa Laffen, Thomas A. Timbario, 2009, Hydrogen Pathways: Cost, Well-to-
Wheels Energy Use, and Emissions for the Current Technology Status of Seven Hydrogen
Production, Delivery, and Distribution Scenarios, Technical Report NREL/TP-6A1-46612.
3. Alternative Mobility
a. The future of mobility is at our doorstep, 2019, by Timo Möller, Asutosh Padhi, Dickon Pinner,
and Andreas Tschiesner
b. Anja Peters, Claus Doll, Fabian Kley, Patrick Plötz, Andreas Sauer, Wolfgang Schade, etc, 2012,
Electric mobility concepts and their significance for the economy, society and the environment,
Working report no. 153 by the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag
4. Smart Cities and Regions
a. Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions, Results of SSPCR 2017, edited by
Adriano Bisello, Daniele Vettorato, Pierre Laconte, Simona Costa, 2018 Edition
5. Unconventional
a. Karel Janda, Ivan Kondratenko, 2018, An Overwiew of Economic Impacts of U.S.
Shale Gas Revolution, MPRA Paper No. 83946
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