Energy markets around the world are in a phase of transition. Energy and environmental policies and regulation play a major role in this transition process; including renewable support, emission regulations, energy efficiency and demand reduction approaches, and supply security mechanisms.

This topic cluster represents two main directions of the FoNEW team research:

1. Conceptual research: Aiming on insights on efficiency and incentive structures we conduct policy design assessments based on economic theoretic concepts. A particular focus is on the interaction of different energy policies.
2. Quantitative assessments: Using numerical modeling selected policy, regulation, and market design approaches are tested for specific markets. This topic stream is strongly interlinked with the FoNEW research on electricity markets.

• Bondarev A., Weigt H. (2017)
  Sensitivity of energy system investments to policy regulation changes: Application of the blue sky catastrophe
  SCCER CREST Working Paper WP3 - 2017/03
• Schmidt S., Weigt H. (2013)
  A Review on Energy Consumption from a Socio-Economic Perspective: Reducing through Energy Efficiency and Beyond.
  SCCER CREST Working Paper WP2 - 2015/01

• Bondarev A., & Weigt H. (2018)
  Sensitivity of energy system investments to policy regulation changes: Too many, too fast?
  Energy Policy, Volume 119, pp 196-205
• Neumann A., Rosellón J., & Weigt H. (2015)
  Removing Cross-Border Capacity Bottlenecks in the European Natural Gas Market—A Proposed Merchant-Regulatory Mechanism
  Networks and Spatial Economics, Volume 15, No. 1, pp 149-181