Prof. Dr. Regina Betz

Work at ZHAW

Position

Head Head of Center for Energy and the Environment (CEE)

Teaching

• Climate and Energy Economics
• Environmental Economics and Politics
• International Economics and Politics (Master)
• CAS Climate Strategies

Experience

• Lecturer
  ZHAW
  2013 - today
• Research Coordinator
  Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM), UNSW Sydney
  2013 - 2017
• Joint Director and Senior Lecturer
  Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM), UNSW Sydney
  2005 - 2012
• PhD
  Fraunhofer Institute for Innovation Systems (ISI), Karlsruhe, Germany
  1998 - 2004

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Ph.D / Public Administration
  German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer
  1999 - 2003
• Master / Economics
  University of Trier
  1991 - 1997

Continuing Education

Leadership
ZHAW
2021

Network

Membership of networks

• European Association Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)
• European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ECEEE)
• Verein für Socialpolitik / Standing Field of Environmental and Resource Economics
• International Association of Energy Economics (IAEE)
• Climate Strategies
• Swiss Association of Energy Economics

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2164-7247

Social media

LinkedIn

Projects

• Monitoring the EED-Recast / Team member / ongoing
• Co-Evolution and Coordinated Simulation of the Swiss Energy System and Swiss Society / Project leader / ongoing
• Renewable Fuels and Chemicals for Switzerland / Project leader / ongoing
• Integrating very high shares of decentralized renewable energy into the Swiss energy system: Electricity market design and policy / Co-project leader / ongoing
• DEcarbonisation of Cities and Regions with Renewable GAses / Project leader / ongoing
• Negativ Emissions Technologies / Project leader / ongoing
• AI for automatisation of administration und detection of criminal activities in emissions trading / Project leader / completed
• Competence for Cantonal Energy and Climate Policy ZHAW through expansion and communication of the Cantonal Clean Energy INDEX Switzerland / Team member / completed
• Establishing the Cantonal Clean Energy INDEX Switzerland (CEIS) as standard instrument for policy makers / Project leader / completed
• Analysis of unused Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) of the Clean Development Mechanism / Project leader / completed
• Re@dy4 sustainable electricity? / Deputy project leader / completed
• Social Innovation for the Energy Transition / Project leader / completed
• Monitoring EU energy efficiency first principle and policy implementation / Co-project leader / completed
• SNIS - Effective Carbon Market Regulation / Project leader / completed
• The influence of market structure and regulation on carbon markets / Project leader / completed
• PhD Network in Data Science / Team member / completed
• EU project to assess energy efficiency policies / Project leader / completed
• The Future of Swiss Hydropower: Distributional Effects of Water Fee Reform Options / Project leader / completed
• Energy Policy Analysis Group / SCCER CREST / Project leader / completed

Publications

• Shen, Peiyao; Betz, Regina; Yong, Soo Keong; et al.,

  2018.

  Energy efficiency subsidies, additionality and incentive compatibility under hidden information.

  Energy Efficiency.

  12(6), pp. 1429-1442.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-018-9745-2

• Betz, Regina; Michaelowa, Axel; Castro, Paula; Kotsch, Raphaela; Mehling, Michael; Michaelowa, Katharina; Baranzini, Andrea,

  2022.

  The carbon market challenge : preventing abuse through effective governance.

  Cambridge:

  Cambridge University Press.

  Elements in Earth System Governance.

  ISBN 978-1-009-21647-0.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009216500

• Betz, Regina,

  2015.

  Emissions trading in practice : lessons learnt from the EU Emissions trading scheme.

  In:

  Managi, Shunsuke, ed.,

  The Routledge handbook of environmental economics in Asia.

  London:

  Routledge.

  pp. 182-206.

  Routledge international handbooks.

• Neu, Urs; Markard, Jochen; Betz, Regina; Boulouchos, Konstantinos; Pautz, Andreas; Stadelmann, Isabelle,

  2025.

  Perspektiven für die Kernenergie in der Schweiz : Grundlagenbericht.

  Swiss Academies Reports

  ; 20(5).

  Bern:

  Akademien der Wissenschaften Schweiz.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15599182

• Acworth, William; Kuneman, Ernst; La Hoz Theuer, Stephanie; Abrell, Jan; Baer, Julia; Betz, Regina; Kosch, Mirjam; Müller, Tobias; Cludius, Johanna; Healy, Sean; Graichen, Jakob; Boute, Anatole; Zhang, Hao; Baisch, Rainer,

  2019.

  Influence of market structures and market regulation on the carbon market : interim report.

  Berlin:

  German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt).

  Available from: https://www.dehst.de/SharedDocs/downloads/EN/publications/report_influence-of-market-structures-and-market-regulation.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=3.

• Betz, Regina; Cludius, Johanna; Riesz, Jenny,

  2015.

  Capacity Remuneration Mechanisms : Overview, Implementation in Selected European Jurisdictions, and Implications for Switzerland.

  SML Working Paper

  ; 10.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1143

• Schleiniger, Reto; Betz, Regina,

  2018.

  Aktuelle Vorschläge für den schweizerischen Strommarkt : inwiefern werden dadurch erneuerbare Energien gefördert.

  In:

  Zweiter Energiegipfel: Neues Marktmodell für die Energiewende, Bern, 31. Januar 2018.

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