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Christian von Hirschhausen

Christian von Hirschhausen

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
34
Citations
5333
World Ranking
3097
National Ranking
108

Overview

Christian von Hirschhausen is affiliated with the Technical University of Berlin in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of engineering and energy, with a focus on electrical and electronic engineering as well as renewable energy, sustainability, and environmental issues.

Their main research topics include:

  • Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Nuclear and Radioactivity Studies
  • Graphite, Nuclear Technology, Radiation Studies
  • Nuclear Reactor Physics and Engineering
  • Water Resources Management and Optimization
  • Renewable Energy and Sustainability

Christian von Hirschhausen has contributed to a number of recent papers in various journals. Notable publications include:

  • Investing into third generation nuclear power plants - Review of recent trends and analysis of future investments using Monte Carlo Simulation (2021), Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Uncertainties in estimating production costs of future nuclear technologies: A model-based analysis of small modular reactors (2023), Energy
  • 100% Renewable Energy Scenarios for North America-Spatial Distribution and Network Constraints (2021), Energies
  • Centralized and decentral approaches to succeed the 100% energiewende in Germany in the European context - A model-based analysis of generation, network, and storage investments (2022), Energy Policy
  • Questioning nuclear scale-up propositions: Availability and economic prospects of light water, small modular and advanced reactor technologies (2024), Energy Research & Social Science

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative research include Claudia Kemfert, Leonard Göke, Mario Kendziorski, Alexander Wimmers, and Björn Steigerwald.

Christian von Hirschhausen has also published books through multiple publishers. Some titles are:

  • The Economics of Water (2020), published by Springer Nature and also by Technische Universität Berlin
  • Electricity Access, Decarbonization, and Integration of Renewables (2022), published by Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz
  • Einfach mal abschalten - und dann? Die Geschichte der deutschen Atomkernkraft und ihr radioaktives Erbe (2023), published by oekom verlag

Their work has appeared frequently in publication venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, arXiv (Cornell University), Econstor, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

Best Publications

  • Current and prospective costs of electricity generation until 2050

    Andreas Schröder;Friedrich Kunz;Jan Meiss;Roman Mendelevitch

  • International market integration for natural gas? A cointegration analysis of prices in Europe, North America and Japan

    Boriss Siliverstovs;Guillaume L'Hégaret;Anne Neumann;Christian von Hirschhausen;Christian von Hirschhausen

  • A strategic model of European gas supply (GASMOD)

    Franziska Holz;Christian von Hirschhausen;Christian von Hirschhausen;Claudia Kemfert;Claudia Kemfert

  • A Large-Scale Spatial Optimization Model of the European Electricity Market

    Florian U. Leuthold;Hannes Weigt;Christian von Hirschhausen

  • First evidence of asymmetric cost pass-through of EU emissions allowances: Examining wholesale electricity prices in Germany

    Georg Zachmann;Christian R. von Hirschhausen

  • Renewable electric energy integration: Quantifying the value of design of markets for international transmission capacity

    Karsten Neuhoff;Julian Barquin;Janusz W. Bialek;Rodney Boyd

  • Quo vadis efficiency analysis of water distribution? A comparative literature review

    Matthias Walter;Astrid Cullmann;Christian von Hirschhausen;Christian von Hirschhausen;Robert Wand

  • Efficient pricing for European electricity networks – The theory of nodal pricing applied to feeding-in wind in Germany

    Florian Leuthold;Hannes Weigt;Christian von Hirschhausen

  • Efficiency analysis of German electricity distribution utilities – non-parametric and parametric tests

    Christian von Hirschhausen;Astrid Cullmann;Andreas Kappeler

  • Convergence of European spot market prices for natural gas? A real-time analysis of market integration using the Kalman Filter

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  • Price Formation and Market Power in the German Wholesale Electricity Market in 2006

    Hannes Weigt;Christian von Hirschhausen

  • “Take the long way down”: Integration of large-scale North Sea wind using HVDC transmission

    Hannes Weigt;Till Jeske;Florian Leuthold;Christian von Hirschhausen

  • Long-Term Contracts and Asset Specificity Revisited: An Empirical Analysis of Producer–Importer Relations in the Natural Gas Industry

    Anne Neumann;Christian von Hirschhausen;Christian von Hirschhausen

  • A Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis of German Public Transport Companies

    Christian von Hirschhausen;Christian von Hirschhausen;Astrid Cullmann

  • Pathways for Germany’s Low-Carbon Energy Transformation Towards 2050

    Hans-Karl Bartholdsen;Anna Eidens;Konstantin Löffler;Frederik Seehaus

  • ELMOD - A Model of the European Electricity Market

    Florian Leuthold;Hannes Weigt;Christian von Hirschhausen

  • Investing into third generation nuclear power plants - Review of recent trends and analysis of future investments using Monte Carlo Simulation

    B. Wealer;Stefan Bauer;Christian von Hirschhausen;Claudia Kemfert

  • How a "Low Carbon" Innovation Can Fail--Tales from a "Lost Decade" for Carbon Capture, Transport, and Sequestration (CCTS)

    Christian von Hirschhausen;Johannes Herold;Pao-Yu Oei

  • Transporting Russian Gas to Western Europe — A Simulation Analysis

    Christian von Hirschhausen;Berit Meinhart;Ferdinand Pavel

  • The globalization of steam coal markets and the role of logistics: An empirical analysis

    Aleksandar Zaklan;Astrid Cullmann;Anne Neumann;Christian R. von Hirschhausen

  • Long-term electricity demand in China — From quantitative to qualitative growth?

    Christian von Hirschhausen;Christian von Hirschhausen;Michael Andres;Michael Andres

  • European electricity sector decarbonization under different levels of foresight

    Clemens Gerbaulet;Christian von Hirschhausen;Claudia Kemfert;Casimir Lorenz

Frequent Co-Authors

Karsten Neuhoff
Karsten Neuhoff German Institute for Economic Research
Elmar Kriegler
Elmar Kriegler Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Janusz Bialek
Janusz Bialek Imperial College London
Richard Green
Richard Green University of Canterbury
Benjamin F. Hobbs
Benjamin F. Hobbs Johns Hopkins University
Jan Minx
Jan Minx University of Leeds
Christian Breyer
Christian Breyer Lappeenranta University of Technology
Jan Christoph Steckel
Jan Christoph Steckel Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Felix Creutzig
Felix Creutzig Technical University of Berlin
Reinhard Madlener
Reinhard Madlener RWTH Aachen University

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