Juniorprofessur für Energy Market Design
Dr. Oliver Ruhnau
Research Focuses
- Energy Market Design
- Energy Economics
- Energy Transition
Selected Publications
- Ruhnau, O., Stiewe, C., Muessel, J., Hirth, L., 2023. Natural gas savings in Germany during the 2022 energy crisis. Nature Energy.
- Ruhnau, O., Schiele, J., 2023. Flexible green hydrogen: The effect of relaxing simultaneity requirements on project design, economics, and power sector emissions. Energy Policy.
- Muessel, J., Ruhnau, O., Madlener, R., 2023. Accurate and scalable representation of electric vehicles in energy system models: A virtual storage-based aggregation approach. iScience.
- Ruhnau, O., 2022. How flexible electricity demand stabilizes wind and solar market values: The case of hydrogen electrolyzers. Applied Energy.
- Ruhnau, O., Qvist, S., 2022. Storage requirements in a 100% renewable electricity system: Extreme events and inter-annual variability. Environmental Research Letters.
- Ruhnau, O., Eicke, A., Sgarlato, R., Tröndle, T., Hirth, L., 2022. Cost-potential curves of onshore wind energy: the role of disamenity costs. Environmental and Resource Economics.
- Ruhnau, O., Bucksteeg, M., Ritter, D., et al., 2022. Why electricity system models yield different results: Carbon pricing in a model-comparison experiment. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.
- Ruhnau, O., Hirth, L., Praktiknjo, A., 2020. Heating with wind: Economics of heat pumps and variable renewables. Energy Economics.
Selected Media Publications
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2023: Warum sich die Lage auf dem Gasmarkt entspannt
Tagesspiegel, 2023: Gasverbrauch ist in Deutschland 2022 stark zurückgegangen
Financial Times, 2022: Germany dims the light to cope with Russia gas supply crunch