2016

Johannes Meuer joins the editorial board of the European Management Journal, one of the leading European journals in the field of organization and management studies. 

We congratulate Annegret Stephan for successfully defending her doctoral dissertation titled: “Innovation in Multi-Component and Multi-Purpose Technologies: The Case of Battery Storage” on December 6^th , 2016.

Marius Schwarz received the 3rd prize of the Swiss Association for Energy Economics’ (SAEE) Student Award for his Master’s thesis. Marius analyzed the creation of knowledge across industry sectors for the lithium-ion battery and thin film photovoltaic technology. 

SusTec welcomes a new team member: Alejandro Nuñez Jimenez joined the group in October 2016 as a new PhD candidate. His research will focus on the influence of technology characteristics in the effectiveness of policy instruments aimed at catalyzing its adoption.

"Innovation und Erneuerbare Energien für das Gebäude der Zukunft". 10 November 2016 ab 18.30 im ETH Zürich Centrum, Sonneggstrasse 3 (Raum: ML E 12). 

The finance track of SusTec’s corporate sustainability lecture has received the FIR-PRI Award 2016 for Best Pedagogical Innovation in sustainable finance. The track was first taught in Fall 2015.

In this article, we develop a multilevel mixed methods technique that integrates qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) with hierarchical linear modeling (HLM). 

Aoife Brophy Haney spoke at the Impact Hub’s Mash Up on Sustainable Cities and Communities, an event that aims to spark new ideas and discussion on a range of different themes. 

SusTec researchers publish article on the development of scientific knowledge of Multi-energy systems. Although in theory, multi-energy systems should allow for lower carbon impacts compared to systems in which single energy vectors are considered individually, implementation of multi-energy systems is often difficult due to the number of technologies and actors involved and the complexity of their interactions.

Johannes Meuer, Aoife Brophy Haney and Mischa Kaspar contributed to a recent AEE (association for renewable energy and energy efficiency) publication on the potential for sustainable buildings to contribute to implementing Switzerland’s Energy Strategy 2050.

We congratulate Dr. Julian Kölbel, who defended his thesis in January, for winning two prestigious awards with his dissertation: Sustainability and Risk: The Role of Stakeholders.

Complementarities are essential for the ongoing energy transition. As a transition unfolds, complementarities change and it is important to identify and mitigate potential bottlenecks.

Annegret Stephan (PhD student, SusTec) and Prof. Tobias Schmidt (Energy Politics Group, ETH Zurich) describe in a recent ETH Zukunftsblog article how policy makers could enable new business models for stationary batteries.

The energy transition enters a new phase. In addition to the expansion of new renewables, the survival of incumbent actors and technologies becomes more of an issue now. In ETH's Zukunftsblog, Jochen Markard discusses ...

An interdisciplinary group of researchers from twelve different countries spent five exciting days in the Swiss Alps for SusTec's annual scientific seminar on Sustainability and Technology.

Researchers from SusTec and the Energy Politics Group (EPG) have analyzed how combining different applications affects the investment attractiveness of stationary batteries.

Jessika Trancik, Assistant Professor of Energy Studies at MIT will be visiting SusTec in June and we have the pleasure of inviting you to a talk co-hosted by SusTec and the Energy Science Center on the future of renewable energy markets. 

With a total time of 9h 43min, the SusTec team successfully covered the running course of 116km finishing 225^th overall.

Erik joined SusTec in March 2015 to help redesign the Corporate Sustainability Lecture. In the fall term, about 160 students learned about sustainability issues and their feedback indicated that the changes were a real improvement.

A study by Dr. Johannes Meuer and his co-authors has just won the Best Paper Award of the Academy of Management Meeting 2016.

In an incredible race of 9 hours, 34 minutes, and 37 seconds at Ironman African Championship in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, David managed to cross the finish line as 7th in his age group.  

SusTec welcomes a new team member: Marius Schwarz has joined the group as our new PhD candidate. His research will focus on the diffusion of renewable energy technologies and its interaction with policy instruments.

SusTec researcher visits UCL’s Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP)

Researchers from SusTec, UC Berkeley, and Technical University Freiberg have analyzed how the patent stock of new entrants in the North American Solar industry influences their subsequent openness in innovation.

Researchers from SusTec and the Energy Politics Group (EPG) have analyzed the patent-citation networks in wind power and show how the design hierarchy shapes the focus of inventive activity and the expansion of the underlying body of knowledge.

He was elected as one of three new members during the general assembly of the Energy Science Center (ESC) on February, 4th.

Sabine Erlinghagen, SusTec Alumna, describes the concept and business opportunities of Demand Response and its benefits to the Swiss and European electricity system.

Researchers from SusTec and the Energy Politics Group (EPG) have identified and analyzed the most prevalent use cases for stationary battery technologies on mainland and island electricity systems.

We congratulate Julian Kölbel for successfully defending his doctoral dissertation titled: “Sustainability and Risk: The Role of Stakeholders” on January 20^th, 2016.