Academic Publications
Neon has deep roots in academia. Several of us hold or have held
positions at universities and research institutes, and we stay closely
connected to the research community. Together we have published well
over 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals, many on the very topics we
advise on: electricity market design, congestion management, balancing,
and network regulation.
We believe this background makes us better consultants. Academic work
instills a certain discipline: stating assumptions explicitly,
quantifying where possible, and following the evidence wherever it
leads. It also underpins our independence: our reputation rests on the
quality of our analysis, not on delivering comfortable conclusions.
The selection below gives a sense of this side of our work.
Lion Hirth
An empirical estimate of the electricity supply curve from market outcomes, Energy Economics, 2026 (w/ Jorge Sánchez Canales, Alice Lixuan Xu, Chiara Fusar Bassini & Lynn H. Kaack). open access
Congestion Management Games in Electricity Markets, The Energy Journal, 2026 (w/ Karl-Martin Ehrhart, Anselm Eicke, Fabian Ocker, Marion Ott, Ingmar Schlecht & Runxi Wang). open access
Analysis of a capacity-based redispatch mechanism, Energy Economics, 2025 (w/ Karl-Martin Ehrhart, Anselm Eicke, Fabian Ocker, Marion Ott, Ingmar Schlecht & Runxi Wang). open access
Cross-border cannibalization: Spillover effects of wind and solar energy on interconnected European electricity markets, Energy Economics, 2025 (w/ Clemens Stiewe, Alice Lixuan Xu & Anselm Eicke).
Market power abuse in wholesale electricity markets, arXiv (working paper), 2025 (w/ Alice Lixuan Xu, Jorge Sánchez Canales, Chiara Fusar Bassini & Lynn H. Kaack). open access
Profile contracts for electricity retail customers, Energy Policy, 2024 (w/ Christian Winzer, Héctor Ramírez-Molina & Ingmar Schlecht). open access
How aggregate electricity demand responds to hourly wholesale price fluctuations, Energy Economics, 2024 (w/ Tarun Khanna & Oliver Ruhnau). open access
Financial contracts for differences: The problems with conventional CfDs in electricity markets and how forward contracts can help solve them, Energy Policy, 2024 (w/ Ingmar Schlecht & Christoph Maurer). open access
Identifying Elasticities in Autocorrelated Time Series Using Causal Graphs, arXiv (working paper), 2024 (w/ Silvana Tiedemann, Jorge Sánchez Canales, Felix Schur, Raffaele Sgarlato, Oliver Ruhnau & Jonas Peters). open access
Natural gas savings in Germany during the 2022 energy crisis, Nature Energy, 2023 (w/ Oliver Ruhnau, Clemens Stiewe & Jarusch Muessel). pdf
Cost-Potential Curves of Onshore Wind Energy: the Role of Disamenity Costs, Environmental and Resource Economics, 2022 (w/ Oliver Ruhnau, Anselm Eicke, Raffaele Sgarlato & Tim Tröndle). open access
Blue hydrogen and industrial base products, Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 (w/ Schalk Cloete, Oliver Ruhnau & Jan Hendrik Cloete). pdf
Why electricity market models yield different results: Carbon pricing in a model-comparison experiment, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 (w/ Oliver Ruhnau, Michael Bucksteeg, David Ritter, Richard Schmitz, Diana Böttger, Matthias Koch, Arne Pöstges & Michael Wiedmann). open access
The (very) short-term price elasticity of German electricity demand, EconStor (working paper), 2022 (w/ Tarun Khanna & Oliver Ruhnau). open access
Electricity balancing as a market equilibrium, Energy Economics, 2021 (w/ Anselm Eicke & Oliver Ruhnau). pdf
A multi-country meta-analysis on the role of behavioural change in reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions in residential buildings, Nature Energy, 2021 (w/ Tarun M. Khanna, Giovanni Baiocchi, Max Callaghan, Felix Creutzig, Horia Guias, Neal R. Haddaway, Aneeque Javaid, Nicolas Koch, Sonja Laukemper, Andreas Löschel, Maria del Mar Zamora Dominguez & Jan C. Minx). open access
Eyes on the Price: Which Power Generation Technologies Set the Market Price?, Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, 2021 (w/ Eike Blume-Werry, Thomas Faber, Claus Huber & Martin Everts). pdf
On capital utilization in the hydrogen economy, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2021 (w/ Schalk Cloete & Oliver Ruhnau). open access
Open Data for Electricity Modeling: Legal Aspects, Energy Strategy Reviews, 2020. pdf
Heating with Wind, Energy Economics, 2020 (w/ Oliver Ruhnau & Aaron Praktiknjo). pdf
Locational investment signals in electricity markets, The Energy Journal, 2020 (w/ Anselm Eicke & Tarun Khanna). pdf
Reforming the electric power industry in developing economies: Evidence on efficiency and electricity access outcomes, Energy Policy, 2020 (w/ Andrea Dertinger). pdf
Flexible power and hydrogen production: Finding synergy between CCS and variable renewables, Energy, 2020 (w/ Schalk Cloete). pdf
Market-Based Redispatch in Zonal Electricity Markets: The Preconditions for and Consequence of Inc-Dec Gaming, EconStor (working paper), 2020 (w/ Ingmar Schlecht). open access
Technology-neutral auctions for renewable energy: EU law vs. reality in Member States, Journal for European Environmental & Planning Law, 2019 (w/ Lars Jerrentrup, Bastian Lotz & Silvana Tiedemann). pdf
Time series of heat demand and heat pump efficiency for energy system modeling, Scientific Data, 2019 (w/ Oliver Ruhnau & Aaron Praktiknjo). open access
Short-Term Electricity Trading for System Balancing, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2019 (w/ Christopher Koch). pdf
Open Power System Data – Frictionless data for electricity system modelling, Applied Energy, 2019 (w/ Frauke Wiese, Ingmar Schlecht, Wolf-Dieter Bunke, Clemens Gerbaulet, Martin Jahn, Friedrich Kunz, Casimir Lorenz, Jonathan Mühlenpfordt, Juliane Reimann & Wolf-Peter Schill). pdf
Open Power System Data – Frictionless data for electricity system modelling (working paper version), arXiv (working paper), 2019 (w/ Frauke Wiese, Ingmar Schlecht, Wolf-Dieter Bunke, Clemens Gerbaulet, Martin Jahn, Friedrich Kunz, Casimir Lorenz, Jonathan Mühlenpfordt, Juliane Reimann & Wolf-Peter Schill).
Markets for Local Flexibility in Distribution Networks, EconStor (working paper), 2019 (w/ Julia Radecke & Joseph Hefele). open access
The ENTSO-E Transparency Platform: An assessment of Europe’s most ambitious electricity data platform, Applied Energy, 2018 (w/ Jonathan Mühlenpfordt & Marisa Bulkeley). pdf
What caused the drop of European electricity prices? A factor decomposition analysis, The Energy Journal, 2018. pdf
Opening the black box of energy modelling: strategies and lessons learned, Energy Strategy Reviews, 2018 (w/ Stefan Pfenninger, Ingmar Schlecht, Eva Schmid, Frauke Wiese, Tom Brown, Chris Davis, Matthew Gidden, Heidi Heinrichs & Clara Heuberger). open access
Congestion Management: From Physics to Regulatory Instruments, EconStor (working paper), 2018 (w/ Samuel Glismann). open access
The importance of open data and software: is energy research lagging behind?, Energy Policy, 2017 (w/ Stefan Pfenninger, Joseph DeCarolis, Sylvain Quoilin & Iain Staffell). open access
Carpe diem: A novel approach to select representative days for long-term power system models with high shares of renewable energy sources, Energy, 2016 (w/ Paul Nahmmacher, Eva Schmid & Brigitte Knopf). open access
The benefits of flexibility: The value of wind energy with hydropower, Applied Energy, 2016. pdf
The role of capital costs in decarbonizing the electricity sector, Environmental Research Letters, 2016 (w/ Jan Steckel). pdf
System-friendly Wind Power, Energy Economics, 2016 (w/ Simon Müller). pdf
Why Wind is not Coal: On the Economics of Electricity Generation, The Energy Journal, 2016 (w/ Falko Ueckerdt & Ottmar Edenhofer). pdf
The Market Value of Wind and Solar Power: An Analytical Approach, USAEE Working Paper, 2016 (w/ Alexander Radebach). open access
The Optimal Share of Variable Renewables: How the Variability of Wind and Solar Power affects their Welfare-optimal Deployment, The Energy Journal, 2015. pdf
The Market Value of Solar Power: Is Photovoltaics Cost-Competitive?, IET Renewable Power Generation, 2015. pdf
Balancing Power and Variable Renewables: Three Links, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2015 (w/ Inka Ziegenhagen). pdf
Integration Costs Revisited – An economic framework of wind and solar variability, Renewable Energy, 2015 (w/ Falko Ueckerdt & Ottmar Edenhofer). pdf
Minimal Thermal Generation in Power Systems, USAEE Working Paper, 2015. open access
How much electricity do we consume? A guide to German and European electricity consumption and generation data, FEEM Working Paper, 2015 (w/ Maximilian Schumacher). open access
Redistribution Effects of Energy and Climate Policy: The electricity market, Energy Policy, 2013 (w/ Falko Ueckerdt). pdf
The Market Value of Variable Renewables: The effect of solar and wind power variability on their relative price, Energy Economics, 2013. pdf
On the Economics of Renewable Energy Sources, Energy Economics, 2013 (w/ Ottmar Edenhofer, Brigitte Knopf, Michael Pahle, Steffen Schloemer, Eva Schmid & Falko Ueckerdt). pdf
System LCOE: What are the costs of variable renewables?, Energy, 2013 (w/ Falko Ueckerdt, Gunnar Luderer & Ottmar Edenhofer). pdf
Carbon Lock-Out: Advancing Renewable Energy Policy in Europe, Energies, 2012 (w/ Paul Lehmann, Felix Creutzig, Melf-Hinrich Ehlers, Nele Friedrichsen, Clemens Heuson & Robert Pietzcker). open access
Ingmar Schlecht
A game-theoretic analysis of the interaction between embargoes, price caps and tariffs in EU-Russia gas trade, Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 2024 (w/ Karl-Martin Ehrhart, Jan Schmitz & Runxi Wang). open access
Comparison of price caps and tariffs to counter a foreign monopoly, Economics Letters, 2023 (w/ Karl-Martin Ehrhart, Jan Schmitz & Runxi Wang). open access
Optimized market value of alpine solar photovoltaic installations, Renewable Energy, 2022 (w/ Jérôme Dujardin, Moritz Schillinger, Annelen Kahl, Jonas Savelsberg & Rebecca Lordan-Perret).
The Impact of Climate Change on Swiss Hydropower, Sustainability, 2018 (w/ Jonas Savelsberg, Moritz Schillinger & Hannes Weigt). open access
Linking Europe: The Role of the Swiss Electricity Transmission Grid until 2050, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2015 (w/ Hannes Weigt). open access
Assessing inefficiencies on the German balancing market, Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM), 2014 (w/ Casimir Lorenz, Benjamin Reinhard, Richard Weinhold & Robert Mieth).
Swissmod: A Model of the Swiss Electricity Market, WWZ Discussion Paper, 2014 (w/ Hannes Weigt). open access
Silvana Tiedemann
How to Estimate and Interpret the Response of Electricity Consumers to Real-Time Pricing, SSRN (working paper), 2025. open access
Firms’ Bidding Behavior in a New Market: Evidence from Renewable Energy Auctions, SSRN (working paper), 2025 (w/ Stefan Lamp & Mario Samano). open access
Auctions to phase out coal power: Lessons learned from Germany, Energy Policy, 2023 (w/ Finn Müller-Hansen). open access
Anselm Eicke
Fighting the wrong battle? A critical assessment of arguments against nodal electricity prices in the European debate, Energy Policy, 2022 (w/ Tim Schittekatte). open access
Johanna Bronisch
Constant innervation despite pubertal growth of the mouse penis, Journal of Comparative Neurology, 2020 (w/ Leopold Purkart, Johanna Sigl-Glöckner & Michael Brecht).
Active dendritic currents gate descending cortical outputs in perception, Nature Neuroscience, 2020 (w/ Naoya Takahashi, Christian Ebner, Johanna Sigl-Glöckner, Sara Moberg, Svenja Nierwetberg & Matthew E. Larkum).
Peeking into the sleeping brain: Using in vivo imaging in rodents to understand the relationship between sleep and cognition, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 2019 (w/ Johanna Sigl-Glöckner & Julie Seibt). open access
Effects of Sexual Experience and Puberty on Mouse Genital Cortex revealed by Chronic Imaging, Current Biology, 2019 (w/ Johanna Sigl-Glöckner, Eduard Maier, Naoya Takahashi, Robert Sachdev, Matthew Larkum & Michael Brecht). open access
Polyploidy and the Cellular and Areal Diversity of Rat Cortical Layer 5 Pyramidal Neurons, Cell Reports, 2017 (w/ Johanna Sigl-Glöckner & Michael Brecht). open access
Cortical dendritic activity correlates with spindle-rich oscillations during sleep in rodents, Nature Communications, 2017 (w/ Julie Seibt, Clément J. Richard, Johanna Sigl-Glöckner, Naoya Takahashi, David I. Kaplan, Guy Doron, Denis de Limoges, Christina Bocklisch & Matthew E. Larkum). open access
Development of rat female genital cortex and control of female puberty by sexual touch, PLOS Biology, 2017 (w/ Constanze Lenschow, Johanna Sigl-Glöckner & Michael Brecht). open access
Screening for depression in adolescents: validity of the Patient Health Questionnaire in pediatric care, Depression and Anxiety, 2012 (w/ Antje-Kathrin Allgaier, Kathrin Pietsch, Barbara Frühe, Johanna Sigl-Glöckner & Gerd Schulte-Körne).
Clemens Lohr
Flexibility is the key to decarbonizing heat supply: A case study based on the German energy system, Energy Conversion and Management, 2025 (w/ Marlon Schlemminger, Florian Peterssen, Raphael Niepelt, Astrid Bensmann, Rolf Brendel, Richard Hanke-Rauschenbach & Michael H. Breitner). open access
Integration of disamenity costs and equality considerations regarding onshore wind power expansion and distribution into energy system optimization models, Energy, Sustainability and Society, 2024 (w/ Florian Peterssen, Marlon Schlemminger, Astrid Bensmann, Raphael Niepelt, Rolf Brendel & Richard Hanke-Rauschenbach). open access
Land competition and its impacts on decarbonized energy systems: A case study for Germany, Energy Strategy Reviews, 2024 (w/ Marlon Schlemminger, Florian Peterssen, David Bredemeier, Raphael Niepelt, Astrid Bensmann, Richard Hanke-Rauschenbach, Michael H. Breitner & Rolf Brendel). open access
Multi-criteria energy system analysis of onshore wind power distribution in climate-neutral Germany, Energy Reports, 2024 (w/ Florian Peterssen, Marlon Schlemminger, Astrid Bensmann, Raphael Niepelt, Rolf Brendel & Richard Hanke-Rauschenbach). open access
Impact of forecasting on energy system optimization, Advances in Applied Energy, 2024 (w/ Florian Peterssen, Marlon Schlemminger, Raphael Niepelt, Richard Hanke-Rauschenbach & Rolf Brendel). open access
Hydrogen storage in salt caverns: Sizing, dynamic modeling and application for energy system analysis, ECOS Conference Proceedings, 2024 (w/ Inga Beyers, Steffen Brundiers, Dirk Zapf, Astrid Bensmann & Richard Hanke-Rauschenbach). open access
The influence of Falling Costs for Electrolyzers on the Location Factors for Green Hydrogen Production, Solar RRL, 2023 (w/ Raphael Niepelt, Marlon Schlemminger, David Bredemeier, Florian Peterssen, Astrid Bensmann, Richard Hanke-Rauschenbach & Rolf Brendel). open access
Hydrogen supply scenarios for a climate neutral energy system in Germany, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2022 (w/ Florian Peterssen, Marlon Schlemminger, Raphael Niepelt, Astrid Bensmann, Richard Hanke-Rauschenbach & Rolf Brendel). open access
Spatial concentration of renewables in energy system optimization models, Renewable Energy, 2022 (w/ Marlon Schlemminger, Florian Peterssen, Astrid Bensmann, Raphael Niepelt, Rolf Brendel & Richard Hanke-Rauschenbach). open access
Alexander Neef
On the Role of Nuclear Motion in Singlet Exciton Fission: The Case of Single-Crystal Pentacene, physica status solidi (a), 2024 (w/ Mariana Rossi, Martin Wolf, Ralph Ernstorfer & Hélène Seiler). open access
Orbital-resolved observation of singlet fission, Nature, 2023 (w/ Samuel Beaulieu, Sebastian Hammer, Shuo Dong, Julian Maklar, Tommaso Pincelli, R. Patrick Xian, Martin Wolf, Laurenz Rettig, Jens Pflaum & Ralph Ernstorfer). open access
Observation of ultrafast interfacial Meitner-Auger energy transfer in a Van der Waals heterostructure, Nature Communications, 2023 (w/ Shuo Dong, Samuel Beaulieu, Malte Selig, Philipp Rosenzweig, Dominik Christiansen, Tommaso Pincelli, Maciej Dendzik, Jonas D. Ziegler, Julian Maklar, R. Patrick Xian, Avaise Mohammed, Armin Schulz, Mona Stadler, Michael Jetter, Peter Michler, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Hidenori Takagi, Ulrich Starke, Alexey Chernikov, Martin Wolf, Hiro Nakamura, Andreas Knorr, Laurenz Rettig & Ralph Ernstorfer). open access
Unveiling the orbital texture of 1T-TiTe2 using intrinsic linear dichroism in multidimensional photoemission spectroscopy, npj Quantum Materials, 2021 (w/ Samuel Beaulieu, Michael Schüler, Jakub Schusser, Shuo Dong, Tommaso Pincelli, Julian Maklar, Friedrich Reinert, Martin Wolf, Laurenz Rettig, Ján Minár & Ralph Ernstorfer). open access
Revealing Hidden Orbital Pseudospin Texture with Time-Reversal Dichroism in Photoelectron Angular Distributions, Physical Review Letters, 2020 (w/ Samuel Beaulieu, Jakub Schusser, Shuo Dong, Michael Schüler, Tommaso Pincelli, Maciej Dendzik, Julian Maklar, Hubert Ebert, Karol Hricovini, Martin Wolf, Jürgen Braun, Laurenz Rettig, Ján Minár & Ralph Ernstorfer). open access
Miriam Ruß
Assessing changes in EU innovation policy programs: from SME instrument to EIC accelerator for start-up funding, Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, 2026 (w/ Maria del Sorbo, Carina Faber, Marco Grazzi & Francesco Matteucci).