Publications by Nicolas Crettenand

The alignment framework

2015

Towards becoming an emerging country with a performing electricity sector. The case of Cameroon

2015

The alignment between institutions and technology in network industries

Network industries, such as electricity, railways and air transport, are very complex technical, economic, and political systems in which the alignment between technology and institutions has a significant impact on performance. This alignment has been stu ...

2013

Stockage d’énergie et petite hydraulique

Matthias Finger, Nicolas Crettenand, Hans Björn Püttgen

Les petites centrales hydrauliques d’accumulation et à pompage-turbinage pourraient contribuer à la production d’électricité décentralisée de pointe et de réglage, ainsi qu’au stockage d’énergie décentralisé. Le potentiel technique en Suisse est suffisamme ...

2012

The Facilitation of Mini and Small Hydropower in Switzerland : Shaping the Institutional Framework (with a Particular Focus on Storage and Pumped-Storage Schemes)

Nicolas Crettenand

The electricity sector in Switzerland is undergoing important changes following the liberalisation process and the facilitation of renewable energy technologies. Furthermore, the phasing out of nuclear power will increase the demand for new domestic electr ...

EPFL2012

Small storage and pumped storage plants in Switzerland

Nicolas Crettenand

The facilitation of renewable energy technologies should also consider energy storage says Nicolas Crettenand as he looks at the potential for small storage and pumped storage plants in Switzerland. ...

2012

Small hydropower - the potential of storage and pump-storage schemes in Switzerland

Nicolas Crettenand

The paper aims to evaluate the technical potential and the institutional feasibility of small storage and pump-storage hydropower (

2011

Small hydropower storage and pump-storage schemes for decentralised energy supply

Nicolas Crettenand

This paper aims to explore the technical and institutional feasibility of small hydropower storage and pump-storage schemes in Switzerland. Within the European and Swiss context of the facilitation of renewable energy technologies, whereby solar and wind p ...

2011

Pump-storage small hydropower as an example of co-evolution between institutions and technologies

Nicolas Crettenand

The aim of this paper is to explore the storage and pump-storage application of small hydropower as an example of co-evolution between institutions and technologies. The context of the research is given by the liberalisation of the electricity sector and t ...

intersentia2011

The facilitation of mini and small hydropower in Switzerland through institutional mechanisms

Matthias Finger, Nicolas Crettenand

Within the context of the liberalisation of the electricity sector, the government’s aim to increase renewable energy sources and post-Kyoto regulation, this paper aims to identify and develop institutional mechanisms to facilitate mini and small hydropowe ...

2010

Performance and Coherence in Network Industries

Matthias Finger, Nicolas Crettenand, Marc Laperrouza, Christof Lorenz Duthaler

Network industries, such as electricity, railways and air transport, are very complex technical, economic, and political systems in which the interplay of technology and institutions has a significant impact on performance. While the performance of the net ...

2010

The facilitation of small hydropower in Switzerland: shaping the institutional framework

Nicolas Crettenand

The paper aims to contribute towards further shaping of the institutional framework in Switzerland in order to facilitate the development of small hydropower (

2010