Adrian Odenweller

Doctoral Researcher
Odenweller

Adrian Odenweller is a doctoral researcher in the Energy Systems Group at the Research Department 3 Transformation Pathways of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). His PhD, supervised by Prof. Dr. Gunnar Luderer and Dr. Falko Ueckerdt, addresses the role of sector coupling for the energy transition. His focus is on green hydrogen and hydrogen-based synthetic fuels (e-fuels), recently including the project-based market diffusion of electrolysers and techno-economic analyses in order to estimate required subsidies. Furthermore, Adrian is responsible for developing the bi-directional soft-coupling of the energy-economy-climate model REMIND and the spatio-temporally highly detailed power system model PyPSA-Eur.

Adrian has been a member of the Kopernikus Project Ariadne since 2020. From 2020 to 2023 Adrian received a PhD scholarship from the German Federal Environmental Foundation within the interdisciplinary programme "Environmental-social questions of the energy transition". In November and December 2022 he was a visiting researcher at Melbourne Climate Futures, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Adrian has a background in Physics (B.Sc.), Economics (B.Sc.) and Climate Sciences (M.Sc.). Before joining PIK he was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg (2018-2020), a visiting researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), University of Cambridge (2018-2019) and a trainee at the European Central Bank, DG Statistics (2017). Adrian was a guest researcher in the research group CoSy-CC2 at PIK's Research Department 4 Complexity Science, supervised by Prof. Dr. Reik Donner (2016-2017).

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    Current highlight

    New paper in Nature Energy on the market ramp-up of electrolysis for green hydrogen production. We show that green hydrogen suffers from short-term scarcity and long-term uncertainty if it grows as fast as wind and solar power have done, the growth-rate champions of the energy transition. These issues could be overcome by unconventionally high growth rates, experienced for certain technologies under specific circumstances in the past.

    Also see: Guest Post in Carbon Brief using the new IEA Hydrogen Projects Database 2022 and summary in New Ground.

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    Free view-only version here.

    Publications

    Work in progress / under review

    • A. Odenweller, F. Ueckerdt (in print): The green hydrogen ambition and implementation gap. Preprint.
    • Y. Simsek, P. Vercoulen, A. Ball-Burack, Femke J. M. M. Nijsse, A. Odenweller, J.-F. Mercure (in progress): FTT:Power 2.0: A global simulation model of power technology diffusion with learning-by-doing and renewables integration.

    Peer-reviewed

    • J. Biehl et al. (incl. A. Odenweller) (2023): Wicked facets of the German energy transition – examples from the electricity, heating, transport, and industry sectors. International Journal of Sustainable Energy, https://doi.org/10.1080/14786451.2023.2244602
    • C. Gong, F. Ueckerdt, R. Pietzcker, A. Odenweller, W.-P. Schill, M. Kittel, G. Luderer (2023): Bidirectional coupling of the long-term integrated assessment model REgional Model of INvestments and Development (REMIND) v3.0.0 with the hourly power sector model Dispatch and Investment Evaluation Tool with Endogenous Renewables (DIETER) v1.0.2. Geoscientific Model Development, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-4977-2023
    • A. Odenweller, F. Ueckerdt, G. F. Nemet, M. Jensterle, G. Luderer (2022): Probabilistic feasibility space of scaling up green hydrogen supply. Nature Energy, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01097-4
    • A. Odenweller (2022): Climate mitigation under S-shaped energy technology diffusion: Leveraging synergies of optimisation and simulation models. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 178, 121568. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121568
    • L. Baumstark et al. (incl. A. Odenweller) (2021): REMIND2.1: transformation and innovation dynamics of the energy-economic system within climate and sustainability limits. Geoscientific Model Development, 14, 6571–6603. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-6571-2021
    • A. Odenweller & R. V. Donner (2020): Disentangling synchrony from serial dependency in paired-event time series. Physical Review E, 101(5), 052213. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.101.052213

    Policy paper

    Short CV

    • Since 09/2020: Doctoral researcher, RD3, PIK, Germany.
    • 11/2022 - 12/2022: Visiting researcher, Melbourne Climate Futures, University of Melbourne, Australia.
    • 06/2020 - 07/2020: Research Associate, Research Unit Sustainability & Global Change (FNU), University of Hamburg, Germany.
    • 10/2017 - 04/2020: M.Sc. Integrated Climate System Sciences, Cluster of Excellence CLICCS, University of Hamburg, Germany.
    • 01/2018 - 03/2020: Research assistant, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Department: The Land in the Earth System, Global Vegetation Modelling Group, Hamburg, Germany.
    • 10/2018-01/2019: Visiting researcher, Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), University of Cambridge, UK.
    • 2017: Trainee, Macroeconomic Statistics Division, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany.
    • 2012 - 2017: B.Sc. Physics, University of Cologne, Germany. Thesis written at PIK.
    • 2012 - 2016: B.Sc. Economics, University of Cologne, Germany.
    • 2014: Semester abroad, Corvinus University Budapest, Hungary.
    • 2011 - 2012: Enrolled in MEng Civil Engineering, University College London (UCL), UK.

    Department

    Transformation Pathways

    Working Group

    Energy Systems

    Contact

    Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
    adrian.odenweller[at]pik-potsdam.de
    P.O. Box 60 12 03
    14412 Potsdam

    ORCID

    orcid.org/0000-0002-1123-8124

    Ariadne (BMBF funded Kopernikus Projekt)

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