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Smart Grid Economics and Management

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The question why energy economics was established as a dedicated subdiscipline of economics is typycally answeres by pointing to the many specifies if energy markets, regulation and politics. Likewise, one could ask the question why there is a need for smart grid economics? Put differently, which tools in the toolbox of an energy economist are missing entirely, and which ones have to be adapted or otherwise modified?

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  1. Chair of Energy Economics and Management, School of Business and Economics / E.ON Energy Research Center, Institute for Future Energy Consumer Needs and Behavior (FCN), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Reinhard Madlener

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  1. Information Systems and Business Analytics, ESB Business School at Reutlingen University, Reutlingen, Germany

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  2. Chair of Information Systems and Business Analytics, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

    Christoph M. Flath

  3. Chair of Energy Economics and Management, School of Business and Economics / E.ON Energy Research Center, Institute for Future Energy Consumer Needs and Behavior (FCN), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Reinhard Madlener

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Madlener, R. (2022). Smart Grid Economics. In: van Dinther, C., Flath, C.M., Madlener, R. (eds) Smart Grid Economics and Management. Lecture Notes in Energy, vol 51. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84286-4_2

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