Henrik Klinge Jacobsen

DTU Management Engineering welcomes Henrik Klinge Jacobsen as a new professor

on 1 September 2013, DTU Management Engineering welcomed Henrik Klinge Jacobsen as new professor in energy demand.

Energy demand is closely related to economic growth and income developments. Energy efficiency improvement and substitution from fossil to renewable fuels reduce the environmental consequences from this relationship, but improvements are dependent on understanding the sectoral structure of demand and how energy policy instruments affect the sectors. Models and methods quantifying the effect of structural changes and the policy effects are used to improve the design and effectiveness of policy. Suggested efforts with targeted investment in new energy efficient technologies and suggestions for the mix of direct regulation with economic incentive based instruments is the objective for this research.     

The methods include integrated energy-economic models and comparative analyses of regulation such as taxes and duties, quotas, standards and investment support. Combining with renewable energy options, a longstanding research profile of Management Engineering, we add an additional dimension to the analyses of energy demand and its environmental impact.

 

Who is Henrik Klinge Jacobsen?

Henrik has a master in Economics from University of Copenhagen from 1990 and a PhD degree in energy economics from the same university from 2000. Henrik was employed at DTU in 1993. His research profile range from integrated energy and macroeconomic models to electricity markets and renewables with fluctuating generation and coupled with a variety of support schemes. Henrik has published in energy economics journals on issues as energy demand in macroeconomic models, decomposition of energy demand developments focusing on foreign trade contribution, and distributional effects of a long range of energy- and environmental taxes.

His experience includes Danish as well as a long range of international projects such as energy demand and CGE models in Malaysia and capacity building in Malaysia and Egypt. In the area of renewable energy Henrik has participated in a long range of EU projects about integrating renewables in the electricity grids in an efficient way. The fluctuating generation characteristics of some renewables (wind, PV) have called for analyses of the options to accommodate this in a least cost fashion. Support schemes for renewables and other environmental regulation interact with the power markets and the security of supply and this has been a recent focus of his research.

In international university and teaching cooperation Henrik is engaged in the N5T Innovative Sustainable Energy Engineering programme, cooperation with Faroe Islands and has taught at courses in Malaysia and at Comillas University in Madrid. His teaching activities include 6 years of energy economics as a core course of the sustainable energy master at DTU and he previously was external associate professor at Roskilde University. Henrik is responsible for coordinating the master in sustainable energy at DTU.