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Challenges in Energy Markets (WI001223, English)

Course WI001223VO in WS 2023/4

General Data

Course Type lecture
Semester Weekly Hours 2 SWS
Organisational Unit Associate Professorship of Economics of Energy Markets (Prof. Schwenen)
Lecturers Leonhard Birnbaum
Adriana Kiszka
Responsible/Coordination: Sebastian Schwenen
Dates 6 singular or moved dates

Further Information

Courses are together with exams the building blocks for modules. Please keep in mind that information on the contents, learning outcomes and, especially examination conditions are given on the module level only – see section "Assignment to Modules" above.

additional remarks The lectures are divided into chapters covering the following topics:Energy Basics: physical characteristics of electricity, stages of the value chain, basics of energy prices and markets.Resources: Overview of different forms of energy, their status, special features and their development over time.Regions & Politics: understanding the energy trilemma. Overview of various regional energy markets and climate change. In-depth consideration of European energy policy and the German energy transition.Companies & Customers: The enormous changes in the energy sector are explained using various examples of generation, grids and the customer business. Various energy-intensive companies and the strategic decisions for an integrated energy company are examined in a deep dive. In the outlook, the future expectations of customers at all levels and the capabilities that energy companies will need to have in the future will be worked out.Hydrogen: Strategies and the development of hydrogen markets and sector coupling are considered from different levels.Outlook: general difficulties and weaknesses for the development of forecasts are analyzed and basic distinctions between scenarios are differentiated. Various scenarios are considered and evaluated with the students.
Links E-Learning course (e. g. Moodle)
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Equivalent Courses (e. g. in other semesters)

SemesterTitleLecturersDates
SS 2024 Challenges in Energy Markets (WI001223, English) Birnbaum, L. Johannsen, A. Schwenen, S. von Kienitz, B. singular or moved dates
SS 2023 Challenges in Energy Markets (WI001223, English) Birnbaum, L. Johannsen, A. von Kienitz, B.
Responsible/Coordination: Schwenen, S.
Wed, 15:00–18:15, N1070ZG
and singular or moved dates
WS 2022/3 Challenges in Energy Markets (WI001223) Birnbaum, L. Kiszka, A.
Responsible/Coordination: Schwenen, S.
singular or moved dates
SS 2022 Challenges in Energy Markets (WI001223) Birnbaum, L.
Responsible/Coordination: Schwenen, S.
Assistants: Kiszka, A.
singular or moved dates
WS 2021/2 Challenges in Energy Markets (WI001223) Birnbaum, L. Kiszka, A.
Responsible/Coordination: Schwenen, S.
singular or moved dates
SS 2021 Challenges in Energy Markets (WI001223) Birnbaum, L.
Responsible/Coordination: Schwenen, S.
WS 2020/1 Challenges in Energy Markets (WI001223) Birnbaum, L.
Responsible/Coordination: Schwenen, S.
SS 2020 Challenges in Energy Markets (WI001223) Birnbaum, L.
Responsible/Coordination: Schwenen, S.
WS 2019/20 Challenges in Energy Markets (WI001223) Birnbaum, L.
Responsible/Coordination: Schwenen, S.
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