Center for Energy Policy and Economics CEPE (ab. 1.1. 2005 im D-MTEC)

Prof. Eberhard Jochem

Prof. Massimo Filippini

Prof. Daniel Spreng

Goals and tasks in research and teaching:

CEPE and its professors seek to point out developments in energy technology and economics against the backdrop of existing opportunities, risks, and obstacles. In addition, they intend to contribute to technological, entrepreneurial and policy innovations through analysis and recommendations and to put these questions in an economic context. CEPE investigates energy economics and policy questions with the goal of making a contribution to academic research and improving the decision-making basis of the government and of firms. In the educational realm, the professors have offered ETH students in Zurich and Lausanne lectures and seminars, as well as colloquia for a broad audience from academia, industry and administration since the 2000 summer semester; they have also offered semester, undergraduate, and doctoral work in the areas of industrial economics, energy economics, energy efficiency, and energy policy. CEPE events thus far have been well received by students and specialists from business and the public administration.

Joint research projects are carried out with several specialized Swiss institutes (e.g. Infras, Basics, econcept) and consultants (e.g. Carbura, ESU) and with research institutes in several EU member and accession countries, LBL in Berkeley and the Energy Research Institute in Beijing, among others. Contacts and cooperative ventures are regularly established between institutions and research groups from the two branches of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Zurich and Lausanne as well as PSI. For instance, there are

• permanent teaching arrangements with ETH Lausanne, the establishment of an additional position at ETH Lausanne and the cooperation with PSI in financing a doctoral student.
• Several research projects have being acquired and are worked on jointly with the ETH Lausanne (Prof. Favrat, Prof. Sarlos) and with PSI (Prof. Wokaun).

Further, the double appointment of Massimo Filippini at the Facoltà di Economia guarantees a close cooperation with the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), and similarly Eberhard Jochem’s position as senior executive at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI at Karlsruhe, Germany. Besides, an ISI researcher, Dr. Peter Radgen, has a university teaching position in D-MAVT since the winter semester 2001/2002.