Research & Consulting
With applied and interdisciplinary research on energy safety and climate Change, we support decision-making processes in politics and industry. Thus, we contribute to the implementation of a sustainable energy system, and ultimately to a cleaner environment.
In formulating solutions, we focus on efficiency and effectiveness as well as the distributional effects of policy instruments. Methodologically, we apply empirical methods ranging from statistical, econometric approaches to laboratory and field experiments.
Current projects
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Beyond Coalitions: Small States in Climate Negotiations (BeCoSS Climate)
Small states are often taken to be rule-takers rather than rule-makers in international affairs. Yet, small states can punch above their weight, notably when working through coalitions. While coalitions are key to understanding multilateral negotiations such as those on climate change, they mask important ...
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Co-Evolution and Coordinated Simulation of the Swiss Energy System and Swiss Society (SWEET COSI)
CoSi is a research project funded by the "SWEET" program of the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (call 1-2022) and carried out by the University of Basel. The project deals with the interactions between society and the energy system. To this end, various areas of social research (economics, social sciences and ...
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SWEET-reFuel.ch
To comply with the timeline of Swiss net-zero targets, an accelerated market development of sustainable fuels and platform chemicals (SFPC) is necessary. While first-generation technology is available to initiate a ramp-up the production of those substances, this is not the case for policies, laws, regulations, and ...
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ESIT - Relief in the electricity grid through innovative grid tariffs
The increasing electrification of mobility and buildings will cause new local bottlenecks in the electricity grid of municipal utilities in the future. These bottlenecks will necessitate cost-intensive grid expansion. Dynamic price signals should prompt home energy management systems (HEMS) at end customers to ...
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NeDeLa - Network Tariffs for Decentral Load Control
Dynamic tariffs can provide an incentive to shift flexible loads from periods with high prices to periods with lower prices. In contrast to direct load control by a single network operator, control via dynamic prices can simultaneously take into account congestion in different network levels and markets by ...