Archive
2017/07/17 – Article in Nature Climate Change
Grams, C. M., Beerli, R., Pfenninger, S., Staffell, I., & Wernli, H. (2017). Balancing Europe’s renewable electricity through spatial deployment informed by weather regimes. Nature Climate Change. external pagedoi:10.1038/nclimate3338call_made
Reports about this article in other media:
2017/05/22 – Johan Lilliestam appointed Assistant Professor
2017/02/21 – Nature column by CP member Stefan Pfenninger
Energy scientists must show their workings
Public trust demands greater openness from those whose research is used to set policy.
2016/09/12 – Simulating PV and wind power plants with Renewables.ninja
CP member Stefan Pfenninger in collaboration with Iain Staffell at Imperial College London has created an online application for other researchers to run hourly simulations of PV and wind power production worldwide. The two papers describing the PV and wind simulation methods were just published:
- Stefan Pfenninger and Iain Staffell (2016). Long-term patterns of European PV output using 30 years of validated hourly reanalysis and satellite data. Energy 114, pp. 1251-1265. doi: external page10.1016/j.energy.2016.08.060call_made
- Iain Staffell and Stefan Pfenninger (2016). Using Bias-Corrected Reanalysis to Simulate Current and Future Wind Power Output. Energy 114, pp. 1224-1239. doi: external page10.1016/j.energy.2016.08.068call_made
ETH and Imperial College have written news stories (ETH story, external pageImperial College storycall_made) and these have been picked up by various other sources including external pagePopular Mechanicscall_made, external pageEsquirecall_made, external pageBlickcall_made, and others.
31.08.2016 – ERC grant for Johan Lilliestam
CP member Johan Lilliestam was awarded a grant from the European Research Council for work on policy interactions with the transition to a renewable power system in Europe. The project will start during 2017.
24.08.2016 – Anna Scolobig interviewed about the earthquake in central Italy
Devastating earthquake in Amatrice, central Italy, on 24 August 2016
A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck Amatrice and nearby villages, central Italy at 3.36am local time on wednesday 24th August. At the time of publishing, 250 people have been killed and the search and rescue operation is ongoing. The epicentral region is made up of many small villages, and is a popular holiday destination. Roads are small and the region is very mountainous, which hindered recovery efforts in the past days.
Interviews with CP staff have been quoted in Austrian, Spanish, Canadian and Estonian newspapers.
Articles available on-line
- external page call_made El Pais
- external page call_made Austrian Press Agency
- external page call_made Tiroler Tageszeitung
- external page call_made Salzburger Nachrichten
- external page call_made Osttirol on-line
- external page call_made Kurier
- external page call_made Kleine Zeitung
- external page call_made Kronen Zeitung
2016/07/12 – CP Master Student's report in ETH life
ETH student Joshu Jullier completed his master thesis at CP about the acceptance of transmission lines in Switzerland.
2016/06/13 – Report on the Desertection Project in EU Journal
Entitled "Desertection – Opportunities and challenges of concentrating solar power for Europe" The Parliament reports on research results of our group.
2015/12/30 – Anthony Patt interviewed by BBC
2015/12/06 – "SonntagsZeitung" interview with Anthony Patt about Paris 2015
2015/11/29 – Anthony Patt writes for "SonntagsZeitung"
Read his article (in German) about Downloadeffects of climate change on working climate (PDF, 401 KB)vertical_align_bottom
2015/11/03 – New "ETH Zukunftsblog"
Anthony Patt, Will the Paris agreement matter for climate change?
2015/10/30 – Anthony Patt writes for Tages-Anzeiger
Viel heisse Luft (TA, 2015-10-30, p. 15, in German). external pageSearch for "Viel heisse Luft" and "Patt".call_made
2015/10/13-16 – CP members at SolarPACES Conference
Anthony Patt and Johan Lilliestam are going to the external pageSolarPACES conferencecall_made in Cape Town. On Wednesday Anthony Patt will talk about "The cost-reliability frontier" of CSP and on Thursday Johan Lilliestam will talk about "Concentrating solar power for the large cities in sub-Saharan Africa".
2015/07/29 – CP Group Members' Journal Article Awarded as Editors’ Choice Article
The paper "Towards people-centred approaches for effective disaster risk management: Balancing rhetoric with reality" by Anna Scolobig, Anthony Patt, Dagmar Schröter, Jonas Jörin, and Tim Prior was selected for the hand-picked choice of authors’ research and scientific articles from external pageInternational Journal of Disaster Risk Reductioncall_made.
2015/04/17 – Press Conference with CP member Mercè Labordena
At the General Assembly of the external pageEuropean Geosciences Unioncall_made in Vienna, Mercè informed about clean energy production in deserts. This news has has been published in countries such as Spain, Brazil, Argentina and Chile (external pagesee efeverde websitecall_made).
2015/02/19 – New "ETH Zukunftsblog"
Oscar van Vliet, The grey energy in smartphones and sausages
2015/02/03 – Tages-Anzeiger's Politblog with Anthony Patt
Read the full article (in German) on the external pageTages-Anzeiger's web sitecall_made.
2014/12/02 – International Conference on Renewable Energy Development & Applications for a Sustainable Agriculture
ETH in cooperation with IIASA are co-organising a conference in Tunisia under patronage of the President of the Tunisian Government, Mehdi Jomaa.
2014/11/13 – Water Symposium in Schiltach/Schwarzwald Germany
Natural Resource Policy group member Eva Lieberherr will moderate the 7th Hansgrohe Water Symposium titled external page"Water Technology of the Future"call_made.
external pageReport (in German)call_made in the "Schwarzwälder Bote" (2014/11/14).
2014/09/22 – Conference "Technik und Protest" at TU Berlin
CP member Johan Lilliestam has a talk at the "Konflikte um Technik: Energiewende und Partizipation" panel. More informationen (in German) about the conference can be found external pageherecall_made.
2014/7/2 – Expert Workshop on “Sharing Best Practices to Protect Electricity Networks from Natural Disasters”
CP members Nadejda Komendantova and Oscar van Vliet attended the external pageOSCEcall_made expert workshop in Vienna. For more information see OSCE's Downloadbackground paper (PDF, 75 KB)vertical_align_bottom .
2014/6/23 – IIASA study shows greater potential for solar power
CP members Tony Patt and Stefan Pfenninger are co-authors of a paper just published in Nature Climate Change.
More information
- external pageNature Climate Changecall_made
- ETH News
- external pageImperial College Londoncall_made
- external pageIIASAcall_made
Media reports
This article has got a high external pagenews coveragecall_made
2014/11/10 – Presentation at the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment
Natural Resource Policy group member Guillaume de Buren will present the results of the external pageAlpeau Interregcall_made research project at the external pageSwiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), Forest Divisioncall_made.
2014/10/29 – Workshop “Enhanced participation in the reinforcement of electricity grid"
CP members Leonhard Spaeth and Anna Scolobig discussed about “Participatory practices in power line planning processes” at the external pageINSPIRE-Grid project stakeholder workshop and general assemblycall_made.
2014/10/08 – European Consultation Workshop in Paris
CP member Johan Lilliestam has a talk (Potential and perspectives of renewable electricity imports in a post-2020 policy framework) at the "Bringing Europe and third countries closer together through renewable energies" workshop. More informationen about the workshop can be found external pageherecall_made.
2014/6/12 – Solar Power out of the Desert
Read online interview with Johan Lilliestam on external pageForskning & Framstegcall_made (in Swedish)
2014/06/10 – New "ETH Klimablog"
Mercè Labordena, Adapting the electricity grid to climate change
2014/05/15 – New "ETH Klimablog"
Johan Lilliestam, How resilient is renewable electricity generation?
2014/04/14 – New "ETH Klimablog"
Anthony Patt, Greasing the wheels of change
2014/04/03 – New "ETH Klimablog"
Anthony Patt, A new paradigm for climate adaptation
2014/3/11 – Short interview with Tony Patt on ETH web site
For full article see ETH News
2014/02/13 – New "ETH Klimablog"
Johan Lilliestam, 50 shades of green: what determines our electricity future?
2014/1/31 – The Guardian reports a paper by Patt & Weber
Corner, A. (2014). The communication of uncertainty is hindering climate change action. For full article see external pagetheGuardiancall_made
2013/10/31 – New "ETH Klimablog"
Anthony Patt, The sense of sustainability
2013/10/01 – New "ETH Klimablog"
Anthony Patt, Was bedeutet der IPCC-Bericht für die Klimapolitik?