Scientific Highlights
The competitiveness of low-carbon fuels depends on location
Production location, financing, and innovation shape the competitiveness of low-carbon fuels.
A comprehensive energy system model for Switzerland
Energy systems face complicated, long-term challenges with a high degree of uncertainty. To explore these challenges and support decision-making, the STEM energy systems model from the Energy Economics Group at PSI has become a key tool.
Electric vehicles could catch on in Africa sooner than expected
Electric vehicles could become economically competitive in many African countries before 2040.
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Hydrogen and the energy puzzle
What is the role of low-carbon molecules on the road to climate neutrality?
Energy systems modelling at LEA
The model that has been behind Switzerland’s most complete analyses of the energy transition is built and run by the Energy Economics Group at PSI’s Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis.
What kind of juice?
Battery or hydrogen cars? Or conventional combustion engines running on so-called “e-fuels”, synthetic fuels produced from carbon dioxide, water, and electricity from renewable sources? What makes the most sense for future individual road transport to achieve climate targets?