Jan Ossenbrink

Domestic clean H2 from Germany's remaining nuclear fleet would most likely be cheaper than any domestic green H2 project coming online in the near future

Case: Studying the policies that shape the emerging energy storage market and industry in California
Contribution: Proposing two archetypical ways in which researchers and practitioners can identify the elements of “policy mixes”, i.e. arrays of policy instruments that follow a given policy strategy such as CO2 emission reduction, in various empirical settings
Method: Qualitative analysis based on archival data and interviews with policy makers and industry experts
Duration: 02/2015 –… Mehr anzeigen

Case: Studying the policies that shape the emerging energy storage market and industry in California
Contribution: Proposing two archetypical ways in which researchers and practitioners can identify the elements of “policy mixes”, i.e. arrays of policy instruments that follow a given policy strategy such as CO2 emission reduction, in various empirical settings
Method: Qualitative analysis based on archival data and interviews with policy makers and industry experts
Duration: 02/2015 – 04/2018 Weniger anzeigen

Case: Analyzing the initiatives launched by the four largest electric utilities in Germany (E.ON, RWE, EnBW,
Vattenfall) in response to renewable power generation and new downstream business models
Contribution: Providing a guideline to decision makers of incumbent firms for how to navigate periods of
discontinuous innovation; presenting a theoretical framework that re-unites two previously distinct
literature streams and academic communities
Method: Inductive case study based on… Mehr anzeigen

Case: Analyzing the initiatives launched by the four largest electric utilities in Germany (E.ON, RWE, EnBW,
Vattenfall) in response to renewable power generation and new downstream business models
Contribution: Providing a guideline to decision makers of incumbent firms for how to navigate periods of
discontinuous innovation; presenting a theoretical framework that re-unites two previously distinct
literature streams and academic communities
Method: Inductive case study based on archival data (e.g. 12,000 newspaper articles) and in-depth interviews with senior executives and industry experts
Duration: 07/2013 – 12/2018 Weniger anzeigen

Case: Estimating how policy affects the diffusion of residential rooftop solar and battery systems in California
Contribution: Providing recommendations how policy can balance the trilemma of a secure, affordable, and sustainable electricity supply
Method: Quantitative analysis based on an agent-based model that simulates dynamic electricity tariff prices (volumetric, fixed, capacity-based), feed-in remuneration levels, and investment subsidies bottom-up
Duration: 03/2016 – 12/2018

Case: Laying out the current situation of energy access, demand and supply in the humanitarian domain
Contribution: Assessing how the lack of data on energy use and infrastructure inhibits overcoming the status quo in UNHCR refugee camps, following the notion that you cannot manage what you cannot measure; sketching how better data collection and sharing could facilitate and accelerate bringing clean energy to refugees and host communities, addressing several of the 17 sustainable… Mehr anzeigen

Case: Laying out the current situation of energy access, demand and supply in the humanitarian domain
Contribution: Assessing how the lack of data on energy use and infrastructure inhibits overcoming the status quo in UNHCR refugee camps, following the notion that you cannot manage what you cannot measure; sketching how better data collection and sharing could facilitate and accelerate bringing clean energy to refugees and host communities, addressing several of the 17 sustainable development goals
simultaneously
Method: Opinion piece, connecting the results from my previous study with insights from expert interviews
Duration: 01/2018 – 03/2018 Weniger anzeigen

About: Joint contribution of 120 practitioners to the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
taking place in New York in July 2018, assessing progress towards reaching the 17 Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs)
Case: Stating that current energy practices in situations of displacement are often inefficient, polluting,
unsafe, expensive and inadequate for displaced people, harmful to the surrounding environment, and
costly for implementers
Contribution:… Mehr anzeigen

About: Joint contribution of 120 practitioners to the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
taking place in New York in July 2018, assessing progress towards reaching the 17 Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs)
Case: Stating that current energy practices in situations of displacement are often inefficient, polluting,
unsafe, expensive and inadequate for displaced people, harmful to the surrounding environment, and
costly for implementers
Contribution: Suggesting an action plan with 66 specific recommendations on how to improve life for displaced people through sustainable and safe energy, across five working areas
Method: Collection of practitioner inputs during a two-day workshop in Berlin
Duration: 01/2018 – 07/2018 Weniger anzeigen

Case: Analyzing the current state and prospects of using solar PV technology in humanitarian settings
Contribution: Revealing that the UN refugee agency could realize significant cost and emission savings when replacing diesel generators by solar PV systems; identifying “solar water pumping” as a “low hanging fruit” that would save $43 million over the next 20 years under conservative estimates; suggesting five specific action items to overcome the prevalent adoption barriers
Method:… Mehr anzeigen

Case: Analyzing the current state and prospects of using solar PV technology in humanitarian settings
Contribution: Revealing that the UN refugee agency could realize significant cost and emission savings when replacing diesel generators by solar PV systems; identifying “solar water pumping” as a “low hanging fruit” that would save $43 million over the next 20 years under conservative estimates; suggesting five specific action items to overcome the prevalent adoption barriers
Method: Using a Monte-Carlo simulation to model levelized cost of four technology configurations under
uncertainty; conducting in-depth interviews with experts from the humanitarian sector
Duration: 03/2017 – 12/2017 Weniger anzeigen

Case: Comparing the effect of two policies, Feed-in Tariffs and Net Metering, on the diffusion of small-scale
solar PV systems in Germany and California respectively
Contribution: Showing that specific design features of the policy instruments have a significant impact on the size and operation mode of PV systems, and thereby implicitly spur fundamentally different “prosumer” paradigms, which has strong implications for electric utilities, grid operators and both residential, commercial… Mehr anzeigen

Case: Comparing the effect of two policies, Feed-in Tariffs and Net Metering, on the diffusion of small-scale
solar PV systems in Germany and California respectively
Contribution: Showing that specific design features of the policy instruments have a significant impact on the size and operation mode of PV systems, and thereby implicitly spur fundamentally different “prosumer” paradigms, which has strong implications for electric utilities, grid operators and both residential, commercial and industrial clients with and without rooftop solar systems
Method: Developing an optimization model and conceptual framework to test various policy designs; comparing the back casted data to historic PV installation data from Germany (1.1 million) and California (420,000)
Duration: 03/2016 – 05/2017 Weniger anzeigen

Case: Studying the development of dominant designs in wind turbine technology between 1973 and 2009
Contribution: Developing a methodology to study knowledge evolution along technological trajectories; analyzing how the focus of patenting in wind turbine technology shifted over time, demonstrating that patenting foci followed a core-periphery pattern and that each shift in focus integrated industry-external knowledge
Method: Studying more than 12,000 patent families pertaining to wind… Mehr anzeigen

Case: Studying the development of dominant designs in wind turbine technology between 1973 and 2009
Contribution: Developing a methodology to study knowledge evolution along technological trajectories; analyzing how the focus of patenting in wind turbine technology shifted over time, demonstrating that patenting foci followed a core-periphery pattern and that each shift in focus integrated industry-external knowledge
Method: Studying more than 12,000 patent families pertaining to wind turbine technology by adapting tools used in “Social Network Analysis”; manually screening and categorizing the top 500 patents and using qualitative data to elaborate on the impact of deployment policies
Duration: 11/2012 – 03/2016 Weniger anzeigen

Case: Tracking the global evolution of solar PV and wind power between 1963 and 2009
Contribution: Revealing that PV followed the life-cycle of mass-produced goods and commodities, while wind power followed the life-cycle of complex products and systems; developing a typology of energy technologies with different life-cycle patterns and stating that technology policy should reflect these patterns
Method: Using the previously developed patent-citation network analysis to study more than… Mehr anzeigen

Case: Tracking the global evolution of solar PV and wind power between 1963 and 2009
Contribution: Revealing that PV followed the life-cycle of mass-produced goods and commodities, while wind power followed the life-cycle of complex products and systems; developing a typology of energy technologies with different life-cycle patterns and stating that technology policy should reflect these patterns
Method: Using the previously developed patent-citation network analysis to study more than 44,000 patent families pertaining to solar PV and wind turbine technology; manually screening and categorizing the top 1,500 patents to identify the focus of innovation over the technology life-cycle
Duration: 11/2012 – 09/2015 Weniger anzeigen