About

Christian Sölch has been working as a post-doc in the Energy Systems and Market Design Lab at the Technical University of Nuremberg (UTN) since July 2024, where he is involved in various projects and committees, including as a collaborator of Prof. Grimm in the Expert Commission on Energy Transition Monitoring. Prior to this, he was a research assistant at the Chair of Economic Theory at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) since 2013. He completed his doctorate in 2019 on the topic „The impact of market design on transmission and generation investments in liberalized electricity markets with zonal pricing“. He then headed the research area „Energy Market Design and Policy“ as a post-doc. Until the end of 2016, he worked at the Center for Applied Energy Research (ZAE) Bavaria as part of the „Smart Grid Solar“ project and until the end of 2021 at the Energy Campus Nürnberg (EnCN) within the research area „Energy Market Design“. He studied business mathematics with a focus on optimization and process management at FAU and at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in Valparaìso, Chile.

Research interests

• Energy Economics
• Energy market designs and investment decisions
• Operations Research in Energy Economics
• Industrial Organization
• Experimental Economics

Teaching

• Seminar Energy Markets (Bachelor & Master)
• Supervision of bachelor, master and project theses on energy market topics
• Advanced Game Theory (Master)
• Advanced Industrial Organization (Master)
• Quantitative Methods in Energy Market Modelling (Master)

Publications

2023

• Lang, L., Egerer, J., Grimm, V., Pfefferer, U., & Sölch, C. (2023). Mittelfristige Mobilisierung deutscher Erzeugungskapazität im europäischen Kontext. In Tagungsband 13. Internationale Energiewirtschaftstagung an der TU Wien (IEWT 2023). Wien, AT.
• Runge, P., Sölch, C., Albert, J., Wasserscheid, P., Zöttl, G., & Grimm, V. (2023). Economic comparison of electric fuels for heavy duty mobility produced at excellent global sites-a 2035 scenario. Applied Energy, 347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.121379

2022

• Egerer, J., Grimm, V., Lang, L., Pfefferer, U., & Sölch, C. (2022). Mobilisierung von Erzeugungskapazitäten auf dem deutschen Strommarkt. Wirtschaftsdienst, 102(11), 846–854. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10273-022-3310-5
• Grimm, V., Martin, A., Sölch, C., Weibelzahl, M., & Zöttl, G. (2022). Market-based Redispatch May Result in Inefficient Dispatch. Energy Journal, 43(5). https://doi.org/10.5547/01956574.43.5.csol
• Grimm, V., Sölch, C., & Zöttl, G. (2022). Emissions reduction in a second-best world: On the long-term effects of overlapping regulations. Energy Economics, 109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.105829
• Schwab, J., Sölch, C., & Zöttl, G. (2022). Electric Vehicle Cost in 2035: The impact of market penetration and charging strategies. Energy Economics, 114. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106263

2021

• Ambrosius, M., Grimm, V., Rückel, B., Sölch, C., & Zöttl, G. (2021). Data Documentation for the German Electricity Market Used for the Calibration of the GATE Model – NDP 2030 (Version 2017).
• Grimm, V., Rückel, B., Sölch, C., & Zöttl, G. (2021). The Impact of Market Design on Transmission and Generation Investment in Electricity Markets. Energy Economics, 93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2020.104934

2020

• Grimm, V., Grübel, J., Rückel, B., Sölch, C., & Zöttl, G. (2020). Storage investment and network expansion in distribution networks: The impact of regulatory frameworks. Applied Energy, 262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.114017

2019

• Ambrosius, M., Grimm, V., Rückel, B., Sölch, C., & Zöttl, G. (2019). Data Documentation for the German Electricity Market used for the calibration of the GATE Model – NDP 2025 (Version 2015).
• Benndorf, V., Rau, H.A., & Sölch, C. (2019). Gender Differences in Motivational Crowding Out of Work Performance. Economic Inquiry, 57(1), 206 – 226. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.12718
• Benndorf, V., Rau, H.A., & Sölch, C. (2019). Minimizing Learning in Repeated Real-Effort Tasks. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 22, 239 – 248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2019.04.002
• Grimm, V., Rückel, B., Sölch, C., & Zöttl, G. (2019). Regionally Differentiated Network Fees to Affect Incentives for Generation Investment. Energy, 177, 487-502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2019.04.035
• Runge, P., Sölch, C., Albert, J., Wasserscheid, P., Zöttl, G., & Grimm, V. (2019). Economic comparison of different electric fuels for energy scenarios in 2035. Applied Energy, 233-234, 1078 – 1093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.10.023
• Sölch, C. (2019). The impact of market design on transmission and generation investments in liberalized electricity markets with zonal pricing (Dissertation).

2018

• Ambrosius, M., Grimm, V., Sölch, C., & Zöttl, G. (2018). Investment Incentives For Flexible Demand Options Under Different Market Designs. Energy Policy, 118, 372 – 389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.01.059

2017

• Grimm, V., Ambrosius, M., Rückel, B., Sölch, C., & Zöttl, G. (2017). Modellierung von liberalisierten Strommärkten – Herausforderungen und Lösungen. Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 18(1), 2 – 31. https://doi.org/10.1515/pwp-2017-0001
• Grimm, V., Zöttl, G., & Sölch, C. (2017). Regionalkomponenten bei der EE-Vergütung. Gutachten im Auftrag der Monopolkommission in Vorbereitung des 77. Sondergutachtens „Energie 2017“ der Monopolkommission.

2016

• Ambrosius, M., Grimm, V., Sölch, C., & Zöttl, G. (2016). Investment incentives for flexible energy consumption in the industry. In IEEE (Eds.), 2016 13th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM) (pp. 1-5). Porto, PT.
• Bogenrieder, J., Hosch, P., Sölch, C., & Brabec, C. (2016). Impact of a large-scale market integration on the orientation of photovoltaic modules. In IEEE (Eds.), 2016 13th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM) (pp. 1 – 6). Porto, PT: IEEE Computer Society.
• Grimm, V., Rückel, B., Sölch, C., & Zöttl, G. (2016). Zur Reduktion des Netzausbaubedarfs durch Redispatch und effizientes Engpassmanagement: Eine modellbasierte Abschätzung. List Forum für Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik, 41(4), 465-498. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41025-016-0027-5
• Grimm, V., Zöttl, G., Ambrosius, M., Rückel, B., & Sölch, C. (2016). Dezentralität und zellulare Optimierung – Auswirkungen auf den Netzausbaubedarf. (Gutachten im Auftrag der N-Ergie AG, gemeinsam mit der Prognos AG).

2015

• Grimm, V., Zöttl, G., Rückel, B., & Sölch, C. (2015). Regionale Preiskomponenten im Strommarkt. Gutachten im Auftrag der Monopolkommission in Vorbereitung des 71. Sondergutachtens „Energie 2015“ der Monopolkommission.