Maximilian Engelken

TL;DR: In this article, the authors systematically review the emerging field of research on business models for renewable energies, differentiating between developing and industrialized countries, and reveal implications for researchers and policy-makers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated economic, ecological, social and energy system related factors that drive municipalities to strive for energy self-sufficiency with a focus on electricity supply and found that environmental awareness, tax revenues and greater independence from private utilities are positively related to the mayors' attitude towards the realization of energy selfsufficiency.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the underlying motivational factors that influence private households' intentions to purchase renewable energy system components with the purpose of partial energy self-supply, and suggested support schemes for renewable energy systems to address perceived behavioral control factors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discussed the value generation potential for local and international industry in different development scenarios of the concentrating solar power (CSP) market in North Africa until 2030 and analyzed the economic impact resulting from the participation of North African and European companies during construction and operation of CSP plants.

TL;DR: An approach for a system, which helps to increase energy efficiency in households by providing more transparency of energy consumption on single device level is described, which allows generating a huge number of virtual households based on real measurements of single devices.