Lion Hirth
Assistant Professor
Energy Policy
Hertie School of Governance
Germany
Biography
Lion Hirth is Assistant Professor of Governance of Digitalisation and Energy Policy at the Hertie School of Governance. Lion is also Research Fellow at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Director of the consulting firm Neon, and Secretary of Strommarkttreffen, a network of energy professionals. His academic publications on the market value of wind energy and on the integration of renewable energy into power systems have won several awards. He holds a PhD in Energy Economics, and Diploma in Economics, and a Magister in Political Science.
Research Interest
His research interests lie in the economics of wind and solar power, energy policy instruments and electricity market design, as well as open data and open-source modelling.
Publications
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Hirth, Lion (2013): “The Market Value of Variable Renewables: The effect of solar wind power variability on their relative priceâ€, Energy Economics 38, 218 - 236, do i: 10.1016/j.eneco.2013.02.004.
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Hirth, Lion & Falko Ueckerdt (2013): “Redistribution Effects of Energy and Climate Policy: The Electricity Marketâ€, Energy Policy 62, 934 - 947, doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.07.055.
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Hirth, Lion, Falko Ueckerdt & Ottmar Edenhofer (2015): “Integration Costs Revisited – An economic framework of wind and solar variabilityâ€, Renewable Energy 74, 925 – 939, doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2014.08.065.
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Hirth, Lion & Inka Ziegenhagen (2015): â€Balancing power and variable renewables: Three links“, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews 50, 1035 - 1051, doi:10.1016/j.rser.2015.04.180.
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Hirth, Lion (2015): “The Market Value of Solar Power: Is Photovoltaics Cost - Competitive?â€, IET Renewable Power Generation 9(1), 37 - 45, doi:10.1049/iet - rpg.2014.0101.
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Hirth, Lion (2015): “The Optimal Share of Variable Ren ewables: How the Variability of Wind and Solar Power affects their Welfare - optimal Deploymentâ€, The Energy Journal 36(1), 127 - 162, doi: 10.5547/01956574.36.1.6.
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Hirth, Lion, Falko Ueckerdt & Ottmar Edenhofer (2016): “Why Wind is not Coal: On the Economics of Electricity Generationâ€, The Energy Journal 37(3), doi: 10.5547/01956574.37.3.lhir.
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Hirth, Lion & Simon Müller (2016): “ System - friendly Wind Powerâ€, Energy Economics 56, 51 - 63, doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2016.02.016.
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Hirth, Lion & Jan Steckel (2016): “The role of capital costs for decarbonizing the electricity sectorâ€, Environmental Research Letters 11, doi: 10.1088/1748 - 9326/11/11/114010.
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Hirth, Lion (2016): “The benefits of flexibility: The value of wind energy with hydropowerâ€, Applied Energy 181, 2010 - 223, doi: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.07.039.
