Catalyzing the transition to a climate-neutral industry with carbon contracts for difference

Abstract

Jörn C. Richstein worked as a senior researcher at the German Institute for Economic Research. His research covers climate policy design in the industrial sector, including carbon contracts for difference and emissions trading. His second focus area is electricity market design, including short- and long-term market design, renewables policy, and industrial demand response. He holds a joint PhD in sustainable energy technologies and strategies from Delft University of Technology, Comillas Pontifical University, and KTH. He now leads the Pan-European team at Aurora Energy Research, which covers technology, market and policy trends for renewables, flexible technologies, and European emissions trading.Johannes Eckstein is a senior researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research. In his work, he focuses on the link of climate policy and industry, particularly on innovative funding instruments such as the EU Innovation Fund or carbon contracts for difference. Energy system modeling and related policy questions are a second building block of his expertise, e.g., on the relevance of hydrogen for decarbonization. He leads and works in projects related to the international, EU, or national context. Johannes Eckstein holds a doctoral degree in physics from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.