Dr. Ingmar Schlecht

Work at ZHAW

Position

Research associate

Focus

• Electricity market
• market design
• grid modeling
• security of supply
• forward markets
• energy trading

Experience

• Research associate
  ZHAW Winterthur
  06 / 2021 - today
• Senior Consultant
  Neon Neue Energieökonomik GmbH
  01 / 2018 - today
• Postdoc
  University of Basel
  03 / 2017 - 03 / 2021
• Research assistant / PhD student
  University of Basel
  08 / 2012 - 03 / 2017
• Consultant
  TYPO3 Association
  01 / 2007 - 08 / 2012

Education and Continuing education

Education

• PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) / Energy Economics
  University of Basel
  08 / 2012 - 02 / 2017
• M.Sc. / Economics
  University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
  09 / 2009 - 09 / 2010
• B.Sc. / Economics
  Philipps University, Marburg, Germany
  10 / 2006 - 06 / 2009

Network

Social media

• Twitter / X
• LinkedIn
• BlueSky

Media presence

• SRF television (evening news), Interview
• Handelsblatt (German major newspaper)
• TELE TOP (TV), on electricity prices
• Euractiv
• Euractiv
• Euractiv
• Die Zeit, weekly newspaper
• Republik.ch (online newspaper)

Projects

• SWEET-reFuel.ch / Team member / Project ongoing
• SWEET EDGE: Integrating very high shares of decentralized renewable energy into the Swiss energy system / Team member / Project ongoing
• AGGREGATE - The value of aggregators in a flexible and decentralized Swiss energy system / Project leader / Project ongoing
• SWEET PATHFNDR – Pathways to an efficient future energy system through flexibility and sector coupling / Project leader / Project ongoing
• BFE System Adequacy 2022 / Project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Schlecht, Ingmar; Maurer, Christoph; Hirth, Lion,

  2024.

  Financial contracts for differences : the problems with conventional CfDs in electricity markets and how forward contracts can help solve them.

  Energy Policy.

  186(113981).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2024.113981

• Ehrhart, Karl-Martin; Schlecht, Ingmar; Schmitz, Jan; Wang, Runxi,

  2023.

  Comparison of price caps and tariffs to counter a foreign monopoly.

  Economics Letters.

  227(111121).

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111128

• Dujardin, Jérôme; Schillinger, Moritz; Kahl, Annelen; Savelsberg, Jonas; Schlecht, Ingmar; Lordan-Perret, Rebecca,

  2022.

  Optimized market value of alpine solar photovoltaic installations.

  Renewable Energy.

  2022(186), pp. 878-888.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2022.01.016

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• 2023 Consentec & ZHAW (2022). Möglichkeiten der Stromverbrauchsreduktion zur Stärkung der Versorgungssicherheit. Studie für das Bundesamt für Energie. Autoren Bernd Tersteegen, Luise Bangert, Alexander Hobert, Christian Winzer, Ingmar Schlecht.
• 2022 Schlecht, Ingmar, Lion Hirth, Christoph Maurer (2022). Financial Wind CfDs. EconStor Working Paper No. 22-060.
• 2022 Ehrhart, Karl-Martin, Anselm Eicke, Lion Hirth, Fabian Ocker, Marion Ott, Ingmar Schlecht, Runxi Wang (2022). Congestion management games in electricity markets. ZEW Discussion Papers No. 22-060.
• 2022 Ehrhart, Karl-Martin, Ingmar Schlecht, Runxi Wang (2022). Price cap versus tariffs: The case of the EU-Russia gas market. EconStor.
• 2022 Ehrhart, Karl-Martin, Ingmar Schlecht (2022). Introducing a price cap on Russian gas: A game theoretic analysis. EconStor.
• 2020 Hirth, Lion, Ingmar Schlecht (2020). Market-Based Redispatch in Zonal Electricity Markets: The Preconditions for and Consequence of Inc-Dec Gaming. EconStor.
• 2020 Schlecht, Ingmar & Weigt, Hannes (2020). JASM Transmission Adequacy Assessment. SCCER Join Activity Scenarios and Modeling.
• 2019 Wiese, Frauke, Ingmar Schlecht, Wolf-Dieter Bunke, et al. (2019). Open power system data–frictionless data for electricity system modelling. Applied Energy. Vol. 236.
• 2019 Hirth, Lion, Christoph Maurer, Ingmar Schlecht und Bernd Tersteegen (2019). Strategisches Bieten in Flex-Märkten. Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen. Heft 6.
• 2018 Pfenninger, Stefan, Lion Hirth, Ingmar Schlecht, Eva Schmid, Frauke Wiese, et al. (2018). Opening the black box of energy modelling: Strategies and lessons learned. Energy Strategy Reviews. Vol. 19,
• 2018 Savelsberg, Jonas, Moritz Schillinger, Ingmar Schlecht, Hannes Weigt (2018). The Impact of Climate Change on Swiss Hydropower. Sustainability. Vol. 10(7).
• 2015 Schlecht, I., Weigt, H. (2015). Linking Europe: The Role of the Swiss Electricity Transmission Grid until 2050. Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 151, 125–165.
• 2014 Lorenz, Casimir, Ingmar Schlecht, Benjamin Reinhard, Richard Weinhold, Robert Mieth (2014). Assessing inefficiencies on the German balancing market. 11th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM14). IEEE Xplore.
• 2014 Schlecht, Ingmar & Weigt, Hannes (2014). Swissmod: A Model of the Swiss Electricity Market. University of Basel WWZ Discussion Paper 2014/04.

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