Dr. Roman Mendelevitch

Special Expertise

• Energy system and electricity market modeling
• Scenarios of future energy supply
• Market-based instruments of climate policy
• Renewable energies and price formation on the electricity market
• Electricity market design
• Carbon Capture, Transport and Storage (CCS)

Key Projects

• BMWi CHP-Self-provision
• WWF CO₂ floor price in the electricity sector
• UBA structural development of the EU-ETS

Selected Publications

• Oei, Pao-Yu and Roman Mendelevitch (2018): Prospects for Steam Coal Exporters in the Era of Climate Policies - A Case Study of Colombia. Climate Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2018.1449094
• Mendelevitch, R. 2018. “Testing Supply-Side Climate Policies for the Global Steam Coal Market – Can They Curb Coal Consumption?” Climatic Change, Fossil Fuel Supply and Climate Policy, 150 (1–2): 57–72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2169-3
• Richter, Philipp M., Roman Mendelevitch, and Frank Jotzo. 2018. “Coal Taxes as Supply-Side Climate Policy: A Rationale for Major Exporters?” Climatic Change, Fossil Fuel Supply and Climate Policy, 150 (1–2): 43–56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2163-9 
• Assembayeva, M., J. Egerer, R. Mendelevitch, and N. Zhakiyev. 2018. “A Spatial Electricity Market Model for the Power System: The Kazakhstan Case Study.” Energy 149 (April): 762–78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2018.02.011 
• Mendelevitch, R., and P.-Y. Oei. 2018. “The Impact of Policy Measures on Future Power Generation Portfolio and Infrastructure: A Combined Electricity and CCTS Investment and Dispatch Model (ELCO).” Energy Systems 9 (4): https://doi.org/1025–54.10.1007/s12667-017-0242-z
• Kunith, A., R. Mendelevitch, and D. Goehlich (2017): Electrification of a City Bus Network: An Optimization Model for Cost-Effective Placing of Charging Infrastructure and Battery Sizing. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation. Vol. 11, Iss. 10, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15568318.2017.1310962
• Oei, P.-Y., and R. Mendelevitch. (2016) European Scenarios of CO₂ Infrastructure Investment, The Energy Journal Vol. 37 (SI3).
• Holz, F., C. Haftendorn, R. Mendelevitch, and C. v. Hirschhausen (2015) The COALMOD-World Model: Coal Markets until 2030, In The Global Coal Market - Supplying the Major Fuel for Emerging Economies, edited by Richard K. Morse and Mark C. Thurber. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Mendelevitch, R (2014) The Role of CO₂-EOR for the Development of a CCTS Infrastructure in the North Sea Region: A Techno-Economic Model and Applications, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 20 (January): 132–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2013.11.007
• Oei, P.-Y., J. Herold, and R. Mendelevitch (2014) Modeling a Carbon Capture, Transport, and Storage Infrastructure for Europe, Environmental Modeling & Assessment 19 (May): 515–31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10666-014-9409-3

Professional Training and Career

• Since 01/2019: Senior Researcher at Öko-Institut, Devision Energy & Climate, Berlin
• 2016 – Jan 2019: Post-Doc, HU Berlin, Resource Economics Group
• 2016- 2019: Managing Editor, Journal “Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy” (EEEP) of the International Association of Energy Economics (IAEE)
• 2013-2016: Researcher at TU Berlin, Chair of Economic and Infrastructure Policy (WIP)
• 2013-2016: Researcher at DIW Berlin, Dept. Energy, Transportation, Environment
• 2013-2016: PhD in Economics (Dr. rer. oec.) at TU Berlin, Faculty of Economics and Management
• 2013-2016: PhD student at the Graduate Center of Economic and Social Research, DIW Berlin, Dept. Energy, Transportation, Environment
• 2006-2012: Student in Industrial Engineering and Management (Dipl.-Ing.), TU Berlin, Specialization: Energy Ecnomics and Transportation

Language Skills

• Mother tongues: German, Russian
• English (business fluent)
• French, Spanish (basic knowledge)