Curriculum Vitae:

04/2016 - 12/2020
University Duisburg-Essen
Academic Staff at the Chair for Management Science and Energy Economics

12/2015 - 03/2016 RWTH Aachen Universtiy
Academic assistant staff at the Institute for High Voltage Technology

10/2013 - 09/2015 RWTH Aachen Universtiy
Master studies of business administration and electrical energy engineering

08/2014 - 12/2014 NTNU Trondheim Universtiy
Master studies of business administration and electrical energy engineering

10/2009 - 09/2013 RWTH Aachen Universtiy
Bachelor studies of business administration and electrical energy engineering

Fields of Research:

• Agent based simulation in distribution grids
• Market interdependencies with smart participants
• Distribution system network extension planning
• Design of future energy scenarios

Projects:

Agent.GridPlan

Publications:

• Blumberg, Gerald; Broll, Roland; Weber, Christoph: The impact of electric vehicles on the future European electricity system – A scenario analysis. In: Energy Policy, Vol 2021 (2022). doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112751Full textCitationAbstractDetails

  The future transformation of the European electricity system will be strongly influenced by both an ongoing
  integration of variable renewable energy sources (VREs) and an increased proliferation of electric vehicles (EVs).
  This combination will cause considerable uncertainty, especially since EV diffusion may greatly vary regarding
  both the spatio-temporal penetration pattern and the achievable flexibility level. Notably, power plant investment
  in the long run and dispatch in the short run will be affected. Hence, this paper assesses the impact of EV
  penetration on the integration of VREs and the costs of CO2 emission reduction as well as the necessary investments
  in controllable plant capacities under the consideration of frequency reserve and backup capacity
  requirements. Applying an extended European energy system model, we found that EVs with a high flexibility
  level may contribute tremendously to improved VRE integration, alleviating the number of necessary VRE investments
  to achieve emission-reduction goals. Simultaneously, overall system costs are reduced even though
  necessary investments in controllable plants, ensuring the abovementioned system stability needs, significantly
  increase. Policy makers should hence ensure sufficient incentives to both exploit the EVs’ potential and safeguard
  corresponding investments in controllable plants, which need to remain attractive even though full-load hours
  are decreasing.

• Schinke-Nendza, Aiko; Blumberg, Gerald; Khalid, Abuzar; Weber, Christoph: Regulatory and Policy Aspects for a Cellular Design of Electricity Markets. In: Proceedings of the 5th International Hybrid Power Systems Workshop | 18 - 19 May 2021 (2021). PDFFull textCitationDetails
• Flatter, Felix; Mohammadi, Sara; Wellßow, Wolfram; Schinke-Nendza, Aiko; Blumberg, Gerald; Weber, Christoph; Rasti, Sasan J.; Schegner, Peter; Uhlemeyer, Björn; Zdrallek, Markus; Spanel, Udo; Dickert, Jörg: ZellNetz2050 – Structure, Planning and Operation of a Cellular Energy System in 2050. In: ETG Congress 2021, Vol 2021 (2021). CitationDetails
• Schinke-Nendza, Aiko; Blumberg, Gerald; Weber, Christoph: A Novel Design for Electricity Markets based on the Cellular Approach. In: 17th international conference on the European Energy Market (2020). doi:10.1109/EEM49802.2020.9221982CitationAbstractDetails

  https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9221982

• Blumberg, Gerald; Weber, Christoph; Schinke-Nendza, Aiko: Sustainable Electricity Market Design – Challenges, Existing Contributions and a Novel Approach - Podcast for the International Association for Energy Economics, Podcast (October 2020). Economics, International Association Of Energy (Ed.), 2020. Full textCitationDetails
• Uhlemeyer, Björn; Jakob, Joshua; Zdrallek, Markus; Baumann, Christoph; Wellßow, Wolfram; Dickert, Jörg; Rasti, Sasan J; Blumberg, Gerald; Schinke-Nendza, Aiko: The Cellular Approach as a Principle in Integrated Energy System Planning and Operation. In: CIRED 2020; Berlin, Vol 2020 (2020). CitationAbstractDetails

  Will be published after the CIRED 2020 in Berlin.

• Broll, R.; Blumberg, G.; Weber, C.: Constructing Constistent Energy Scenarios using Cross Impact Matrices, 05/2020. Essen 2020. Full textCitationDetails
• Schlecht, I.; Wagner, C.; Lehnert, W.; Bucksteeg, M.; Schinke-Nendza, A.; Voß, N.; Inhaltliche Bearbeitung durch: Wagner, C.; Greve, M.; Blumberg, G; Schinke-Nendza, A.; Bucksteeg, M.; Weber, C.; Schlecht, I.; Hirth, L.; Lehnert, W.; Voß, N.; Burges, K.: Effizienzprüfung marktgestützter Beschaffung von nicht-frequenzgebundenen Systemdienstleistungen (NF-SDL) - Bericht im Vorhaben „SDL-Zukunft“, Wirtschaft, M Auftrag Des Bundesministeriums Für; Energie (Ed.), 2020. Full textCitationDetails
• Blumberg, G.; Weber, C.: Impact of dynamic line rating on redispatch. In: IEEE Explore - Digital Library (2019). doi:10.1109/EEM.2019.8916513Full textCitationAbstractDetails

  Conference Paper:

  16th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM), Ljubljana 2019

• Blumberg, Gerald; Wagner, Christian; Lehnert, Wieland; Bucksteeg, Michael; Greve, Marco: Marktgestützte Beschaffung von Blindleistung - Bericht im Vorhaben „SDL-Zukunft“, Wirtschaft, Im Auftrag Des Bundesministeriums Für; Energie (Ed.), Berlin 2021. PDFFull textCitationDetails

Talks:

• Blumberg, G.; Weber, C.; Schinke-Nendza, A.: Sustainable Electricity Market Design – Challenges, Existing Contributions and a Novel Approach, IAEE Podcast, 09.10.2020, https://www.iaee.org/en/podcasts/podcasts.aspx. AbstractDetails

  In this podcast, Gerald Blumberg, Christoph Weber and Aiko Schinke-Nendza discuss challenges and existing contributions to an improved sustainable electricity market design. Decarbonization and distributed energy resources are discussed as key drivers and the challenges for coordination in these times of digitization are highlighted. Specifically, a novel two-layer market design is proposed which contributes to solving some of the identified challenges.

  
  

  In this podcast, Gerald Blumberg, Christoph Weber and Aiko Schinke-Nendza discuss challenges and existing contributions to an improved sustainable electricity market design. Decarbonization and distributed energy resources are discussed as key drivers and the challenges for coordination in these times of digitization are highlighted. Specifically, a novel two-layer market design is proposed which contributes to solving some of the identified challenges.

• Blumberg, Gerald; Wagner, Christian: Zwischenergebnisse des Beschaffungskonzepts zur Spannungsregelung (Projekt SDL-Zukunft), BMWi Workshop zum Beschaffungskonzept Spannungsregelung 1m 14.05.2020, 14.05.2020, digital / Berlin. Details
• Blumberg, G.; Weber, C.: Modelling Flexible Market Participants in Distribution Grids by Coupling an Agent Based Simulation with a Fundamental Model, IAEE 2019, 30.05.2019, Montreal . AbstractDetails

  https://symposia.gerad.ca/iaee2019/en/schedule/view_document/6818

• Gerald Blumberg, Christoph Weber: The impact of sector coupling technologies on the future European electricity system - A scenario analysis, Operations Research 2018, 12.09.2018, Brüssel. AbstractDetails

  Program and abstract could be found here

Tutored Theses:

• Analyse verschiedener temporaler Aggregationsmethoden anhand eines europäischen Energiesystemmodells zur Bestimmung des langfristig optimalen Stromerzeugungsparks unter Berücksichtigung verschiedener E-Mobility Entwicklungen (Bachelor Thesis Business Administration - Energy and Finance, 2020) AbstractDetails

  Hier erhalten Sie weitere Informationen zur Masterarbeit

• Empirische Analysen und Szenarien zur regionalen Entwicklung des Windenergieausbaus (Master Thesis Business Administration - Energy and Finance, 2018) AbstractDetails

  Nähere Informationen finden Sie hier.

• Potentialanalyse von Data Mining in Energiebeschaffung und -vertrieb (Master Thesis Industrial Engineering, 2018)
• Modellierung der Interdependenzen zwischen Strommarkt und flexiblen Marktteilnehmern im Verteilnetz (Master Thesis Business Administration - Energy and Finance, 2018)
• Anreizwirkung der Gestaltung verschiedener Strompreiskomponenten auf flexible Konsumenten und Prosumer – Weiterentwicklung einer agentenbasierten Simulation (Master Thesis Business Administration - Energy and Finance, 2017)
• Modellierung der regionalen Windenergieeinspeisung unter Berücksichtigung der Windgeschwindigkeiten verschiedener Höhenlevels (Master Thesis Industrial Engineering)
• Untersuchung verschiedener Netzentgeltsystematiken und deren Auswirkungen auf unterschiedliche Netzanschlussnehmer (Master Thesis Business Administration - Energy and Finance)
• Auswirkungen vertikaler Netzrestriktionen auf den optimalen Energiespeicherzubau (Master Thesis Industrial Engineering) AbstractDetails

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