Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI
Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI

Dr. Michael Stecher

Researcher

Michael Stecher has been a senior researcher in the Competence Center Energy Policy and Energy Markets at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI since 2023. Previously, he worked as a research associate at the Chair of Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of Freiburg, where he completed his doctorate on 'Causal attribution in ecosystems with tipping points'. Michael Stecher studied International Business Administration (B.A.) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University of Victoria, Canada, as well as Economics (M.Sc. and B.Econ.) at the University of Tübingen and the University of Adelaide, Australia.

Michael Stecher works in scientific research and political consultancy projects at a national and international level. One focus of his work is the evaluation and development of market design and funding instruments for a climate-neutral energy and economic system using a broad range of quantitative and qualitative statistical methods.

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    • Design and analysis of policy instruments for renewable energy support, with a focus on market and bidding design
    • Identification of causal effects of financial aid schemes

    • BMWK – Further development of financing instruments for renewable energies under the German renewable energy support scheme (EEG)
    • BMWK – Platform climate-neutral energy system (high-level stakeholder process for future electricity market design)
    • DG ENER – Assistance in the development of auction design and necessary pre-conditions for a European import auction for renewable hydrogen under the European Hydrogen Bank
    • DG CLIMA – Assistance in the analysis and set-up of a competitive bidding mechanism under the Innovation Fund
    • Kopernikus-Project Ariadne

    • Burkhardt, A.; Billerbeck, A.; Böttger, D.; Brand, H.; Egerer, J.; Gerhardt, N.; Gillich, A.; Held, A.; Kahles, M.; Kamm, J.; Hoff, F.; Kochems, J.; Nienhaus, K.; Pfefferer, U.; Radke, S.; Schill, W.-P.; Stecher, M.; Stiewe, C.; Tekin, E.; Tiedemann, S. (2024): Kernelemente des Strommarktdesigns – Anforderungen, Ziele, Bewertungskriterien und Handlungsoptionen. Kopernikus-Projekt Ariadne, Potsdam. https://doi.org/10.48485/pik.2024.016
    • Stecher, M.; Anatolitis, V.; Panny, J. (2024): Beyond Price – Assessing the impact of non-price criteria in solar photovoltaic auctions, 20th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM), Istanbul, Turkiye, 2024, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1109/EEM60825.2024.10608493.
    • Stecher, M. and Baumgärtner, S. (2024): Quantifying agents' causal responsibility in dynamical systems, Ecological Economics, 217, 108086, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.108086.
    • Stecher, M. and Baumgärtner, S. (2022): A stylized model of stochastic ecosystems with alternative stable states, Natural Resource Modeling, 35(4), e12345, https://doi.org/10.1111/nrm.12345.